This is rather frustrating, as a main source of additional protein for me has been through their tuna. Along with protein powder supplements, I have eaten a whole lot of their tuna in the past six or seven years now. Have they been shorting me? I mean, a hundred or more cans a year easily...

Same as me.  Run through starkist on the regular as an easy salad protein.

I forecast lots of Starkist for sale on Ebay/EE next year...

Free enterprise doesn't work if people are too lazy to challenge the producers when they veer outside the boundaries of what is fair - or legal.

Sure it does. If it bothers you don't buy from them. Government taking from them and giving to you isn't exactly free enterprise.

Whenever I make tuna salad it takes 5 of those cans because there is so little tuna in them.

 

I buy their product. I have never had a complaint.

I would need to take a bath if I actually filled out that form. How utterly fucking disgusting for people to jump on that like welfare trash.

Yes, many from right here at good 'ole ARFCom, apparently.

Looked in the pantry and I have about a case of it with some exp dates in 2012-2015, so, I am going to file a claim for the $50 in products. Next time I open a can, I am weighing that shit.

But, see, what's happening is the government is forcing them to give me what I already paid for a number of years ago. I didn't buy 4.8 ounce cans of tuna, I bought 5 ounce cans. Just because I didn't notice the difference in weight doesn't mean I didn't pay for the missing tablespoon in each can. Free enterprise only works if both sides of the transaction are honest and forthright. Th government's role is ensuring that the injured party is made whole by the dishonest party. In this case, it is the court's role to tell Starkist to either cut a check or issue a voucher to each of the customers who were slighted. Is the manner in which Starkist doing so rife with opportunity for leeches to take advantage of the situation? Sure. But, their willingness to be dishonest in no way diminishes the fact that Starkist committed fraud and theft by deception.

Or, do you routinely allow those who screw you out of something you bought get away with it, regardless of the value? If you're okay with someone willfully taking from another through deception, I would argue that you're probably likely to take from others by deceiving them.

Besides, we're not talking about just "a few grams" of tuna. We're talking about a few grams of tuna multiplied by countless containers. Stealing $50 from you isn't okay just because they only took it a quarter at a time, especially when they did the same thing to hundreds of thousands, or millions, of people.

Its nice to see there are still people left with integrity.

I've probably bought at least one can of 5 oz. Starkist tuna during that period.  But, I'm opting out, so I can pursue my own separate litigation on my own behalf.  

Nah, I just hate class action suits.  Especially about stupid sh*t like this.

Its a pro-rata settlement so maybe so many will opt-in that they will only get pennies on the dollar.  lol.

As a nearly 60-year-old ex-Catholic, I have consumed many hundreds of pounds of Starkist over the years.  

My only thought is how much mercury is in 50 bucks worth of tuna?

I'm torn on this.




I've purchased a ton of their product (usually chunk light in water).  I grew accustomed to making tuna salad out of two cans because one seemed dinky after being drained.  I think maybe I averaged four cans a month.  Big fan of the bulk packs.






But I hate lawyers and feel dirty signing up.


 

Not jumping on this fsa bandwagon.  And plenty of bullshit VA claims out there.  Just cause you're a vet, you don't get no sympathy from me for the migrains, ptsd mailroom and supply clerks, blah blah blah

My ranch cats thank you    

Chunk light tuna is nasty.  Solid white FTW.

Does it mail the coupon to you? I filled out my information but it only gave me a claim number which does not work because it has too many digits.

Ironically, I didn't submit a claim. I've bought Starkist Tuna, but I usually don't get the 5 oz cans. I do think that company owes those who were legitimately shorted and knew this group stockpiles the stuff, so I shared it here.

I don't know how much starkist I've bought during the time period but always noticed it was rather weird that the cans always seemed under-filled. Enough that you could slosh the tuna around and here it thump against the sides of the cans.

If you were getting 20% less gas at the pump, we'd be okay with that?

I bet most of the people here calling everyone else FSA already submitted a separate claim for each person in their family plus their dog.

Thanks.  I bought many cans of Sunkist canned dolphin during that time period.

I'm submitting a claim.

I buy about four cans a week or so, plus extras for my hurricane stash. Have been for many years.


"IT'S MY TUNA, AND I WANT IT NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOW"


Call J-T-Tuna-877-TUNA-NOW! CALL NOW!

Claim filed for both myself and my wife.

Based on the cans I have bought recently I thought the suit was going to be about low quality tuna. I've had a few cans in the last month with noticeable chunks of bone or scale in them. That, and LOTS that looked more like the tuna version of lean finely textured beef than "chunk light tuna". Very inconsistent QC on the Starkist line lately. I've been meaning to contact them about it, but it's nothing I was going to sue over.

Makes me think of the Remington lawsuits.
"Our 870s blow up, here's $10 to make it better. I know, most if not all were due to overcharged reloads, but they got sued and my dad's neighbor had one in the SN range and got a random check for it.

Then the 597 .17 recall. "Our guns fire out of battery. You might have paid $500 for it, but we'd like to buy it back for $200."

just saw a "Red Bull gives you wings" commercial on TV tonight. I don't agree with the lawsuit, but who gets sued for something and goes back to doing the same thing?

7000 grains to a pound.  Not hard to convert.

You ARE aware you just posted the number to a phone sex line, right?


For shits and giggles I called 877-TUNA-NOW and got a recorded message saying hot ladies are waiting to talk to me, all I need to do is enter my credit card number.

This.

I was one of those over seas guys like another poster mentioned getting it in care packages. My mom sent me that, rip off mom? Ill have her fill one out too.

I have a problem with businesses and persons whom lack ethics. A lot of people here will say F cheaper than dirt for being "gougers" but equate a small amount of compensation for theft on the tuna guys is FSA.

If I got shorted 1% per paycheck because the bank did not credit it to me over those years, the bank would owe me over $6k.

Would you fill out the form for that?


No difference.


Txl

I noticed recently that there didn't seem to be as much in the can. My wife won't let me get the off brand because it "Tastes funny".
Your damned right I filed a claim!

Their tuna went to hell ever since they stopped putting dolphin in with it.  They used to sell it in 6 oz. cans and then lowered it to 5 oz cans.  Ignorant people here bitching about people putting a claim in.  I buy the cans 20 at a time.  It says right on the can that it contains 4 ounces drained weight.  If they were only putting 2.35 ounces of tuna in the can then they were shorting everyone almost 42% of what the can advertises as the drained amount.

So you have kept track of your tuna consumption and determined that you missed out on $50 worth of tuna? You wouldn't happen to be the bean counter that discovered that they were being shorted would you? The tuna I eat was short 6.8% from the government standard. That would take about 1000 cans of tuns for me to be shorted $50 worth.

And now you are calling me a thief? Which one of us is taking something for nothing again? Stay classy friend. Enjoy your government tuna.

No, I just pick my battles. I am not about to sue for being shorted 6.8% on my can of tuna. YMMV.

Next month there will be a " Show me your tuna Fort " Thread

Just told my sister. She also buys a lot of Starfish tuna.

Gone are the  happy days of thirty-nine cents a can.  

Nice, thanks.

Looks like I'll be getting a lifetime supply of potato chips in the near future since about 3/4ths of the product is air.

Air in the bag is irrelevant... they're sold by weight, not volume.  They could sell you four chips in a box the size of a semi, and as long as they were upfront about the weight of the chips you were purchasing, they're good to go.

On the other hand, if you bought a one-pound bag of chips and it only weighed 9 ounces, you'd probably be like ... which is basically what Starkist is accused of.

No, I don't keep track of my tuna. It's fairly easy, though, at least for an intelligent individual, to take the one can of tuna he buys a week for his family, multiply it by the 52 weeks in a year, further multiply it by the five years covered under the suit, and come to the conclusion that his family has most likely consumed at least 260 cans over that period. Then, you multiply that by the net weight of the can's contents (5 ounces) and multiply that by the amount the lawsuit contends the manufacturer was actually putting into the cans (82.7%) to arrive at the amount of product actually received versus the amount for which the customer paid. Then, you simply multiply the amount shorted by the price of the product and you arrive at an average amount of money the consumer lost because some thief at the manufacturer thought he'd have such low integrity as to defraud customers. I'm sorry they didn't teach math in whatever school you attended.

By your attitude of thinking wanting remuneration from a thief is akin to being a welfare leech, I can only deduce that you have a preference for thieves as opposed to those who've been wronged. I am also forced to believe that should you be discovered wronging someone, you would think they were wrong for demanding you make good on your wrongdoing. While you may not be a thief, you definitely display beliefs that support thieves. That alone would cause me to never trust you in any kind of business deal. You would rather the thief be left to their own devices, going unpunished, than see people who do buy from them receive compensation for five years worth of deception. You have no integrity, having replaced it with an holier-than-thou attitude.

As to your accusation that I am taking something for nothing, go fuck yourself. I know my grocery purchasing habits, not you. I've stated repeatedly in this thread that I buy at least a can of Starkist a week for my family, and have been buying it for long before the time frame of the lawsuit. (Oh, and, it's not government tuna. It's the tuna I paid for between 2009 and 2014, which they didn't give me when I paid for it. I know, that's likely too difficult a concept for you to wrap your head around, though.)

Starkist agreed to this without going to court.

Starkist KNOW they fucked up and would rather do this since they determined how much total $$$ they will pay. Most likely it is much lower than what they took in over those years, so it's a write off.