Click Settlement - Claim Form - What amount to enter?

Estimate or what?

[pmkpmk]

Now that the click settlement forms are live, I wonder what amount should be entered. In the AdWords backend I can easily get the amount up to date, but ain't I am missing claims if I fill out the forms today (with todays total) compared to filling them out on the last day of the settlement? Should I estimate? And if yes - for what end-date?

[heyday]

When did these start comming out? Did you get an email on this or something in the mail?

heyday

[anallawalla]

There was an email. I deleted it thinking it was spam and then I got another one.

[heyday]

can you tell me who the from address was on that email. I need to do a search.... I'm sure mine went to spam.....

heyday

[pmkpmk]

The forms and the backgroun info can be found at www.clicksettlement.com.

Any comment related to my initial question?

[exmoorbeast]

tell you what...I will mail you 50 DVDs...and you tell me how much to enter on the form. I will spilt the rebate 50/50 with you.

Now there's a business idea!

[pmkpmk]

You don't seem to understand what I asked. I'm not asking for an ABSOLUTE number to enter, but rather for a RELATIVE amount.

Example: Let's assume a daily budget of $10, and an AdWords membership time starting at Jan 1st 2006. If I log into AdWords my total would be 5 x 30 x 10$ = 1500$ + 21 * 10$ = 1710$. That is a confirmed value which I could enter into the settlement form. However, I could wait until August 4 - the last day of the settlement period. Then my calculcation would be: 7 x 30 x 10$ = 2100$ + 4 * 10$ = 2140$.

That's a difference of 430$ only depending on the date at which I enter my numbers!

So, how do you folks deal with it? Playing for saftey and entering the numbers early. Risking server outages but waiting until the last day? Or estimating number for August 4?

[RhinoFish]

"WHEN WILL THE COURT DECIDE WHETHER TO APPROVE THE SETTLEMENT?
The Court has scheduled a hearing on July 24 and 25 beginning at 9:00 a.m. to consider whether the settlement is fair, reasonable and adequate and to determine the amount of the fees and expenses to be awarded to class counsel. The hearing will be held in the Juvenile Courtroom at 305 E 5th Street, Texarkana, Arkansas 71854. It is possible that the hearing may be postponed."

For the reason PMKPMK stated ("If you purchased online advertising from Google between January 1, 2002 and the present") and because of the scheduled approval hearing not yet being in place, I'm going to wait until July 26th to fill out my claims.

I operate and manage too many accounts to waste my time entering all this data now to have it later ignored if not approved or truncated in amount due to their haphazard definition ("present") of the class period.

[RhinoFish]

I put filing claims on my calendar for July 26th.

If the approval hearing gets postponed, I'll enter my data anyhow to beat the August 4th deadline (but will watch for the deadline to be extended if the approval hearing is delayed).

Procrastination appears to be the best approach here, in my opinion.

[JKelly]

It seems like waiting till after the 26th at least and assuming the court approves the settlement no later than the end of July would be safe.

The thing I don't understand is the settlement agreement does not specify what is and how one is supposed to calculate "click fraud". So how is one supposed to calculate much less certify this amount? In any case, could'nt Google just dispute all or part of whatever amount you submit and not credit you all or part of it?

[gregbo]

The thing I don't understand is the settlement agreement does not specify what is and how one is supposed to calculate "click fraud". So how is one supposed to calculate much less certify this amount? In any case, could'nt Google just dispute all or part of whatever amount you submit and not credit you all or part of it?

They certainly could, which is one of the problems with this settlement.