Lord-Xanthor
San Bruno,#2Author of original report
Thu, November 01, 2018
It seems Humble Bundle has been selling bundles with illigal products in them and has not bothered to notify the buyers to compensate them. This means when you have purchased a bundle of software titles, not all of them were authorized by the developer to be put into the bundle. This results in one of two things on steam. Either the product is kept but stripped of all benefits, like updates, cards, discounts on new releases, or worse the game just vanishes from your list of purchased titles and if your like me with a vast library, if you havent played the game, or not in a while, you might not catch this. I only caught on to this because a game I recently purchased didnt use the steam cloud but the same data saved in roaming. What I purchased looked similar to a terraria clone, so when I purchased and downloaded the game to play, I was at first suprised to see I had saved games listed. Loaded one up to realize it was one I completed under another name which no longer listed in my library. Found out it was another title from Humble Bundle to be deleted yet no refund or replacement offered. Makes one wonder if the money being spent there, is really making it to the organizations as they say they do.
Scott
San Bruno,#3Author of original report
Sat, January 06, 2018
I have done many of cases when it comes to companies like humble Bundle, and most of the time, they get their due. Unfortunately, I lost this case. Had the case been a civil instead of small claims, things might have been a lot different. Im putting this here because I made a few mistakes, and rather not have anyone reading my articles make the same mistakes I did. As I mentioned before, when you go to court you need to prove damages, and small claims, especially in California if you have the wrong type of judge, which I did, spells disaster. This was because despite the company refunding everything, which they did, the next part is proving damages.
Some judges as I have learned yesterday, dont care about damages, they see a refund was given, and rule for the defendant. I had such a judge, and to be honest, this is the first time Im actually going to say this judge definately doee not belong on the bench. I lost other cases, not many, but some, and I'll never say that bout them. This one, and you can pull up the transscripts if you so choose of the small claims in redwood city for 1/5/2017, you will see not one plaintiff won a case. I hate bill collectors as much as anyone does, and really honestly, just loved seeing one sent out on their tail losing all 11 cases they paid for and not just lose them, but forced to pay some of the people they actually took to court in the firt place. But after my gloating at seeing this, I realized, this guy who just lost over $40,000 never got to give his say in court.
When you go to court, the plaintiff gives his point, the defendant theirs. The judge took a look at all 11 cases, and even missed a few so after the collector left, actually ruled on them as well. No judge is allowed to do this EVER. If a judge dismisses you from the court and discoveres there were cases that got carried over, if they dismiss you, they are required to rescedule those cases and inform both plaintiff and defendant. He just ruled in the defendants behalf with the defendant not even there and the plaintiff already dismissed fromt he court. But let me tell you about what took place with this collector, moment the judge saw he was a bill collector, NEVER once looked at the case.
He just said "Bill collectors have unclean hands, I'm ruleing for the defendant, and had most of the defedants had been here, would have awarded damages for you to pay as well" Which is similar to what happened with me. When it came to my turn, the judge was more pissed with the fact I didnt file this in civil. Small claims is any case under $7,000. This case was $3500, or there abouts. My turn, the defendant interupted before I got to speak my side, and I let them, because when this happens, and is does, the normal route is for the judge to intervene and inform them they will get their turn, and not to interupt. Instead, this judge said nothing, and did not give me my turn, did not look at the evidence, and sent them happily on their way basically giving them the paving way to rip more people off. For me, this will be my last report on this case.
It's not worth the aggreviation, nor can it be appealed, because in small claims cases in California, all decisions are final! No appeals, no redos, no going to higher courts, the deed is done and that is that. I choose this route because our courts in small claims do not allow attorneys of any kind, which normally makes the battlefield even, and why I choose small claims despite being able to do civil prose, which is not an easy task. I am sending the judge a letter, clearly highlighting that it is in no way being written to get him to change his decision, but the fact of why he should not be practacing, and just like many in the past who have been caught, he most likely will one day make the same mistake, and to think hard now. It wont be me that does this, this case is not worth the time, and it isnt. In the end, I may have lost, but doesnt mean if you have the same problem, that you will lose. For me, it was just a bad judge. I did all the work, unfortunatley, none of that work got looked into.