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Wesley Lyon:
Welcome back to another episode of Drilling It Down. This is your host, (00:03):
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Wesley Lyon:
Wes Lyon, co-hosting again today, Tyler Ott. Ty, welcome back. (00:06):
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Tyler Ott:
Always good to be here. (00:10):
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Wesley Lyon:
We got a little emergency podcast coming out here. We're coming up on a deadline. (00:10):
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Wesley Lyon:
So, Tyler, what's the deadline for? I heard there's, is it raining money? (00:15):
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Tyler Ott:
Yeah, it might be. You know, there's this credit card settlement and you got (00:19):
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to get it filed by February 4th, 2025. (00:22):
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Tyler Ott:
So, if you haven't heard about it, good thing you're tuning in. (00:25):
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Tyler Ott:
We'll give you a little more information. (00:28):
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Wesley Lyon:
It's not a scam. It might be raining money. (00:29):
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Tyler Ott:
So it really just comes down to going to the website, filling the form, (00:32):
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putting in your information, putting in your company's information and submitting. (00:36):
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Tyler Ott:
There's a timely deadline. You're looking at just over a month, (00:41):
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maybe a month and two weeks to get this in. (00:46):
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Tyler Ott:
So Wes, kind of tell me a little bit about it, how to do it. (00:48):
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Wesley Lyon:
Yeah, well, first there's two major class action lawsuits pending against Visa (00:51):
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and MasterCard right now. (00:56):
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Wesley Lyon:
I guess this one's not really pending, But there were two class action lawsuits (00:57):
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brought against Visa and MasterCard. (01:02):
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Wesley Lyon:
One was for credit card fees, I believe, from 2004 through 2019. (01:04):
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And it was Visa, MasterCard, and then if you actually look at the document under (01:10):
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all the other defendants, a whole bunch of banks involved, too. (01:13):
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And they kind of got accused of price fixing. (01:17):
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Wesley Lyon:
I mean, a bunch of banks and credit card companies price fixing. Who would have thought? (01:20):
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Wesley Lyon:
Yeah But You know It was There's about Eight companies That started The class (01:24):
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action lawsuit Bunch of attorneys And they ended up Settling For 5.54 billion dollars So This, (01:30):
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$5.54 billion is available. (01:39):
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Wesley Lyon:
Pretty much anyone who has taken Visa and MasterCard from 2004 to 2019. (01:44):
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So unfortunately, I don't think I was charging anybody directly. (01:51):
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So I got to call John and fill his out form and make sure he gets paid. (01:55):
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But yeah, I mean, pretty big settlement amount. (02:00):
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Wesley Lyon:
This is legitimate. it. I actually had a client email me and, (02:05):
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you know, hey, have you seen this? (02:09):
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And then email back, talk to somebody, it is legit. (02:11):
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So there's a website to go to, paymentcardsettlement.com to claim your share of it. (02:14):
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But this is something everyone in business from 2004 to 2019 should apply for, (02:22):
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and they should do it now. (02:28):
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Wesley Lyon:
Applications should be pretty easy though. So we'll kind of go through if yours (02:31):
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is easy and if it's not easy. (02:37):
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Wesley Lyon:
So if yours is easy, you know, they have a bunch of data that was handed over by all the defendants. (02:39):
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So they should have a good idea of how much they processed, transacted, (02:45):
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and, you know, how much, it's not going to tell you how much you're going to (02:50):
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get paid, but it's going to tell you what your transactions totaling were. (02:55):
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Wesley Lyon:
So if you go to the website, paymentcardsettlement.com, I also noticed there were a couple websites. (02:59):
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Wesley Lyon:
Paymentcardsettlement.com, I believe, is the one that is actually that you want to go to. (03:07):
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Wesley Lyon:
You can also call 800-625-6440, but I would recommend just going to the website. (03:14):
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Everyone should have received or people should have received something in the (03:23):
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mail about this class action lawsuit now if you're like me though i toss all (03:27):
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those out uh so you may have just tossed it out but this could be a decent chunk (03:31):
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of money we don't know but it could be so we don't want to toss this one out. (03:37):
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Tyler Ott:
It really depends on who's claiming you know how much money is theirs left over (03:40):
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so there's really no downside to it so if you can fill it fill it. (03:44):
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Wesley Lyon:
Yeah no absolutely so So we want to go fill that out. (03:49):
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But if you go to the website, you can either log in using your claimant ID, (03:52):
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which that would actually be on what was mailed to you, or you can use your (03:57):
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tax identification number. (04:02):
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Wesley Lyon:
If you have tax identification number, they're going to require some proving (04:03):
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documents that you own it. (04:07):
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They didn't give a specific one. It's going to be reviewed by a human, (04:10):
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but tax returns, incorporation documents. (04:14):
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They even said utility bills, which I kind of laughed about, (04:18):
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but I'd probably throw two or three in there just to expedite the process, (04:22):
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make sure it's going to go well for you. (04:26):
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And they should look you up by that, and all your, you know, (04:28):
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what they processed on your behalf should be sitting in there, (04:31):
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and you should pretty much just have to hit file the claim. So, that's... (04:34):
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Wesley Lyon:
That's pretty good news. Yeah. Who knows? It might be $5,000, $20,000, $2,000. (04:39):
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Wesley Lyon:
You might go spend an hour and get two pennies. Hopefully not. (04:45):
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But, hey, it could be raining free money. So free money is free money. (04:50):
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But it shouldn't take you, if your data is in there, it shouldn't take you more (04:55):
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than five or ten minutes to fill out. (04:58):
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Tyler Ott:
Yeah, it seems very straightforward. If you're confused, you can always give us a call. (04:59):
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One thing to be wary of is there are going to be some sharks in the water. (05:04):
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You know, there's always these people that are going to say, (05:08):
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you know, we can file this for you. (05:11):
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You just give us, you know, a percentage of how much you receive. (05:12):
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Tyler Ott:
Those are contingent fees. Do not do that. Again, we've mentioned this for all (05:15):
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of the credits, your ERC, everything like that. (05:21):
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If your CPA is offering to do this for a contingent fee that is not allowed, (05:23):
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that should raise some red flags, some alarm bells. (05:27):
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Wesley Lyon:
I think this one could actually be done. It's just a class action settlement. (05:30):
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Tyler Ott:
But not for a contingent fee. (05:34):
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Wesley Lyon:
But yeah. No, I think, I don't know. I'd have to look at the rules, but it's not a tax item. (05:36):
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So there's a lot of people are going to offer to do this on a contingency fee basis, though. (05:40):
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Wesley Lyon:
You don't need to pay somebody 30 to 40 percent of what you're going to collect to do it. (05:45):
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Tyler Ott:
No. So really, it should be simple. Get your documentation, get your tax identification (05:49):
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number, EIN number, fill it in, submit it. (05:54):
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Really don't need someone else to do it for you. If you got a super, (05:59):
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super busy, you maybe have your front desk look into it for you. (06:03):
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But you should not be paying somebody to do this. It's really straightforward (06:07):
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and it's just free money. (06:10):
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Wesley Lyon:
No, perfect. Before we jump in and talk about what to do, if your information (06:11):
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isn't in there, if you are currently not receiving the McGill and My and Dental Advisory each month, (06:16):
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make sure you go to mcgillhillgroup.com and you sign up for the newsletter because (06:22):
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you're going to get all the most relevant information sent to your inbox each month. (06:28):
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Wesley Lyon:
And by inbox, it's going to be email and it's coming via mail. (06:33):
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It's actually going to come as a magazine and it is must read information. (06:37):
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So you don't want this lost in your email. (06:42):
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You want it sitting on your desk until you read it. If you read this, do what we say. (06:44):
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You're going to make your $300 a year back in no time. (06:49):
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So make sure you subscribe to that. But Tyler, back to part two. (06:54):
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Wesley Lyon:
Some people might log in and their data, (06:57):
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might not be in there. It's going to be a little bit more problematic. (07:01):
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You're going to have to look in there. If you actually log in, (07:07):
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you'll be able to click on your TIN and see taxpayer identification number. (07:09):
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You actually see the amount and you can click onto it and it'll give you a little bit of a breakdown. (07:16):
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If you need more information, see if it's legitimate, you kind of click in to (07:21):
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more information, request it. They should have it to you. They say within seven days. (07:25):
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Wesley Lyon:
We'll see, but I assume it's the attorneys doing this and the attorneys want to get paid. (07:29):
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Wesley Lyon:
They want to get paid. So they're probably going to try to get this money paid (07:35):
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out because I believe they're taking 9% of the pot. (07:39):
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Wesley Lyon:
So Tyler, what is that? Like 350 or no, it's probably more than that. (07:43):
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Wesley Lyon:
It's going to be 450 to $500 million split between three law firms. Oh boy. (07:47):
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Tyler Ott:
That's a good paycheck there. (07:54):
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Wesley Lyon:
I didn't know we got in the wrong career. But no, if you do though, (07:56):
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and you have to provide data, you'll have to go in, pull credit card processing (08:02):
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data. You have to be able to see if you can grab that. (08:06):
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Wesley Lyon:
That's going to get a little bit more difficult. Don't want to lie about it. (08:09):
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So hopefully your data is in there. (08:12):
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If not, you'll have to call them, figure out how you can get the data, (08:14):
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how you can get it over to them, and decide how easily you can get a hold of (08:18):
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it and if it's worth your hassle or not. (08:22):
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Wesley Lyon:
In that case, it could be worth the contingency fee, but they're still going (08:24):
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to ask you for a ton of data. (08:29):
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Tyler Ott:
Yeah, even the person filing is going to ask for it. So, you're going to have (08:30):
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to pull it no matter what. (08:33):
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Wesley Lyon:
But no, everyone listening, paymentcardsettlement.com. That is your key to free money. (08:34):
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Wesley Lyon:
And once you get it, make sure you use some of that, subscribe to our newsletter. (08:44):
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Wesley Lyon:
Otherwise, we will see you next episode. (08:49):
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Tyler Ott:
February 4th. February 4th. (08:52):
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Wesley Lyon:
That's right. February 4th. It's not in by then, which means do it now so you don't forget. (08:54):
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Tyler Ott:
Yeah, exactly. As soon as you hear this, do it. Yeah. (08:59):
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Wesley Lyon:
All right. We'll be back with you next episode. Thanks for tuning in. (09:02):
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Tyler Ott:
Thanks for having me. (09:05):
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