December 1, 2026. Then the door closes.

What closes on December 1, 2026

• Subclass B claim forms. If Amazon's records don't flag your covered refund as failed, no form by this date = no payment from the $309.5M fund. Online submission and mailed forms both close this day.
• Opt-outs. Leaving the class to sue on your own also closes this date.
• Objections. Telling the court the settlement is unfair closes this date too.

What the date does NOT close

• Subclass A payments. Automatic — the fund's majority (~92.7% of the net). No form exists to miss.
• Your own fight with Amazon. Appeals, executive escalation, BBB complaints, and (as a last resort) chargebacks run on no settlement clock. A return from 2023 with a dead claim form can still be fought directly — the doors don't expire with the fund.
• Every return after Feb 12, 2026. Never in the settlement, never on its clock. The post-window fight is evergreen.

If you miss it

Plainly: the settlement money is gone for a Subclass B case. What remains is the direct fight, and it is not nothing — Amazon's own doors (the decision-email reply, the appeal form, executive relations, the BBB) have no December deadline, and documented cases win refunds through them every week. What changes after Dec 1 is the weather: the news cycle moves on, the claim-help scammers move on, and the buyers left fighting are the ones with paper. Be one of them — the evidence guide is the part of this site that outlives the settlement.

Dates checked Oct 20, 2026 against the administrator's announcements: claim/opt-out/objection deadline December 1, 2026; final approval hearing March 16, 2027.