Hehe I saw that in the daily Infobeat news on monday...
*** Iomega settles Zip drive lawsuit
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Iomega Corp. will give rebates to millions of
customers as part of a settlement of a class-action lawsuit that
claimed its Zip drives are defective. U.S. customers who bought a
Zip drive from a store or authorized manufacturer between Jan. 1,
1995 and March 19, 2001 will be entitled to rebates worth up to $40
for various Iomega products. The settlement comes out of a lawsuit
filed in Delaware in 1998, which claims the Roy-based company's
mainstay product had a manufacturing flaw that often caused the
drives and disks to fail. The suit also alleged that many of the
drives made constant clicking noises - nicknamed "the click of
death" - before failing. Plaintiffs' attorney Mike Dodge estimated
28 million Zip drive purchasers are part of the suit. Iomega will
also donate $1 million in products and services to schools, pay
attorneys fees for the lawsuit and provide free technical support
for customers who experience the clicking.
Makes me glad i didnt buy a zip drive and stuck to archiving to
CD-R. An awful lot cheaper to do CD-R too these days :-)
PrinceGaz.
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Taky Cheung wrote:
> > A while ago, we have debate here about how good iomega products
> > are. I found this news from CNet news.com. Iomega is giving out
> > rebates to millions of customers who purchased their zip drive
> > between 1/1/95 to 3/19/2001.
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