You may be owed money from this Apple-Amazon lawsuit
Here's how to check your account before the offer expires
Here's how to check your account before the offer expires
The only thing better than finding a twenty dollar bill in your coat pocket after a season away is finding out that the battle of two tech giants has left you with free money in your account. Nearly half a billion dollars is being distributed among Amazon customers via credits to their accounts, but the funds terminate this Saturday, June 24. Time to buy some e-books, folks.
The lawsuit traces back to the dawn of e-books, 2009, when Apple and Amazon were competing for domination of the market. Apple worked out some deals with major publishers that required those companies to give Apple preferential pricing, resulting in inflated e-book prices on Amazon for a few years. The U.S. Department of Justice and the attorney generals of several states intervened, and Apple settled for $400 million, with that money to be distributed among Amazon customers who were stiffed during the art of the deal.
How do you know if you were one of those customers? According to , it's very easy to check. Just go to on Amazon.com, and sign in. If you have available credits, they will show as "unused credits" on your account. Then you can get to spending—the credits expire at 12 A.M. PST/3:00 A.M. EST on June 24, 2017.
Thanks for the battle royale, Amazon and Apple! For once, the customer wins.