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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They will probably lose, and they should.

The problem with the class-action lawsuit is, only those who led the class will be "made whole", as it were; the rest will get table scraps. That's not justice, except for the lawyers, who are the real winners.

Legally speaking, Amazon paid the tariffs to import those goods and sold them for cost plus a fee they determined on their own. They don't owe the customer shit.

The best thing the government could have done is cut every American a check for their share of the tariffs. The best thing Amazon (and others like them) can do is, use the money to improve their infrastructure and/or to lower the prices of other products. Paying 2-3 people what they're rightly owed (if anything), lawyers millions, and hundreds of thousands of others a buck or two isn't right.