How hard is it to go to the website and figure out whether you can get the $125? Make that: How hard for a journalist to do that?
I’m no journalist, but as Cory suggested, I did. And you know what? It’s far more involved than saying Gimme money. You have to be able to document damages.
Everyone else, IIRC, gets ten years of credit reporting — and the problem there is that many if not most card issuers provide that service anyway. Given that, who wants what one’s already getting from Equifax?
Even by the shitty standards of shitty class action settlements, this one is exceptionally shitty.
I guess all the professional journalists on this are reading some bullshit press release and mindlessly echoing same and don’t bother to the slightest investigation.
And this irresponsible laziness is part of the reason America’s in a crapper.
