I got a check for $10 for having purchased one walk-behind during the settlement period.
Info for lawnmower class action settlement $$$
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Anybody here ever dyno a mower engine? I'd be curious to know how big the marketing bump actually was on some of these. I can say from my personal experience having run three Lawn Boys built in 1978, 1994 and 2002(? on that one) that they have seemed to be proportionally more powerful in exactly the way the stated HP ratings would suggest. The newest one - the last of the two-strokes with the Toro engine - is definitely a beast compared to the two that came before it. The 1994 was stickered at 3.5 IIRC while the newest is stickered at 6.5 and I could definitely believe that it is twice as powerful.
OTOH, I had another mower that someone frankensteined together that has a Craftsman branded engine that also has the numbers 6.5 on it although it doesn't actually say HP. There's absolutely no way that engine is as strong as the Toro two-stroke.
OTOH, I had another mower that someone frankensteined together that has a Craftsman branded engine that also has the numbers 6.5 on it although it doesn't actually say HP. There's absolutely no way that engine is as strong as the Toro two-stroke.
The manufacturers have been for a while putting numbers on products that were flat out lies, sometimes even selling the same engine with several different power ratings and corresponding pricing bumps. Sometimes they would label them with weasel words like "Power Rating" other times not even bothering to fudge. Also, we're not really talking about buying engines a la carte out of the Grainger catalog. Those usually do come with reliable graphs and boilerplates. This is more targeted at whole mowers aimed at consumers where you might get a push mower with a big "7.5" on the cowl where the actual horsepower potential is closer to 4.
Not that I really care but let's not let them off without calling out the fraud for what it was.
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For more than a decade, Defendants have lied to consumers by overstating the horsepower of lawn mower engines. In advertising and selling their lawn mowers and lawn mower engines, Defendants have defrauded the public by: (1) misrepresenting and significantly overstating the horsepower produced by such products, (2) concealing, suppressing and failing to disclose material information, including the true, significantly lower horsepower of Defendants’ products and (3) falsely advertising and selling lawn mowers containing identical engines that produce the same horsepower as different products with different horsepower labels or ratings at different prices—higher prices for falsely represented higher horsepower—while concealing, suppressing and failing to disclose material information, including the facts that the engines are identical, and the true, significantly lower horsepower of the lawn mowers. Plaintiff asserts violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (―RICO‖), New Mexico’s Unfair Practices Act, state and federal antitrust statutes, as well as claims for common law unjust enrichment and conspiracy. Defendants have agreed and conspired among themselves to misrepresent and conceal material facts concerning the horsepower of other Defendants’ lawn mowers and lawn mower engines, while misrepresenting, significantly overstating and concealing the true horsepower of Defendants’ own lawn mowers and lawn mower engines.
Now when can we get the same treatment for shop vacs? They're doing the exact same thing there and have been for a while.
https://lawnmowerclass.com/More_Information/Court_Documents.aspx
Not that I really care but let's not let them off without calling out the fraud for what it was.
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For more than a decade, Defendants have lied to consumers by overstating the horsepower of lawn mower engines. In advertising and selling their lawn mowers and lawn mower engines, Defendants have defrauded the public by: (1) misrepresenting and significantly overstating the horsepower produced by such products, (2) concealing, suppressing and failing to disclose material information, including the true, significantly lower horsepower of Defendants’ products and (3) falsely advertising and selling lawn mowers containing identical engines that produce the same horsepower as different products with different horsepower labels or ratings at different prices—higher prices for falsely represented higher horsepower—while concealing, suppressing and failing to disclose material information, including the facts that the engines are identical, and the true, significantly lower horsepower of the lawn mowers. Plaintiff asserts violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (―RICO‖), New Mexico’s Unfair Practices Act, state and federal antitrust statutes, as well as claims for common law unjust enrichment and conspiracy. Defendants have agreed and conspired among themselves to misrepresent and conceal material facts concerning the horsepower of other Defendants’ lawn mowers and lawn mower engines, while misrepresenting, significantly overstating and concealing the true horsepower of Defendants’ own lawn mowers and lawn mower engines.
Now when can we get the same treatment for shop vacs? They're doing the exact same thing there and have been for a while.
https://lawnmowerclass.com/More_Information/Court_Documents.aspx
I received my check, it was just $10, no the $35 I was hoping for.
Got my check a few days ago as well. It was for $21 and some change. Better than nothing I guess.
I got a check for $10. It'll take more time and money to get this thing deposited than what the check is worth, lol!
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