Albany Park Settlement: Claim Window Closed, Hearing Oct 23

At a glance

Status

Pending final approval

Defendant

Albany Park, Inc. (AlbanyPark.com furniture)

Settlement fund

$14,993,930

Claim deadline

August 18, 2026

No-proof cash option

Yes — $115 store credit voucher, automatic, valid 18 months (no claim needed), or up to $115 cash payment (electronic payment or check) if a claim form is filed

Max documented payout

$115

Administrator

CPT Group, Inc.

Official site

www.chiechiclassactionsettlement.com

Court

Superior Court of California, County of San Diego

Case number

25CU057205C

Last verified September 9, 2026

Key dates

Milestone	Date	What it means
Claim deadline	August 18, 2026(passed)	Last day to file for a payment
Opt-out (exclusion) deadline	August 18, 2026(passed)	Last day to leave the settlement and keep the right to sue
Objection deadline	August 18, 2026(passed)	Last day to object to the terms
Final approval hearing	October 23, 2026	When the judge decides whether to approve the settlement
Expected payout	Not yet scheduled	Payments are not sent until after final approval and any appeals

Where to file

Albany Park Deceptive Discount Pricing Settlement (Chiechi v. Albany Park) is administered by CPT Group, Inc.. The only place to file is the official settlement website:

Verify on the official site

www.chiechiclassactionsettlement.com

Filing is free. No legitimate settlement charges a fee to file a claim.

You cannot file on RecordingLaw.com. We are an independent publisher, not the settlement administrator, and we are not affiliated with any court, agency, or defendant.

Albany Park, the online furniture retailer, is facing a class-action settlement over how it displayed discounts on AlbanyPark.com. As of September 9, 2026, the claim window in the case, known as Chiechi v. Albany Park, has closed. The deadline to file a claim, opt out, or object was August 18, 2026, and the court has set a final approval hearing for October 23, 2026.

What Albany Park is accused of doing

Albany Park sells furniture directly to consumers through AlbanyPark.com. A group of customers sued the company, in the case known as Chiechi v. Albany Park, claiming its website advertised inflated "original" or "regular" prices next to a lower "sale" price, so that every discount looked bigger than it actually was.

This kind of claim is sometimes called fictitious or deceptive reference pricing. It is the same practice the FTC's Guides Against Deceptive Pricing (16 CFR Part 233) warn retailers about: advertising a former price that was not a real, bona fide price the item was actually sold at for a substantial period of time, just to make a markdown look more impressive.

Albany Park has not admitted wrongdoing. Agreeing to settle resolves the claims and avoids the cost and risk of continued litigation, which is standard in a class-action settlement and does not mean the company conceded the allegations were true.

The class covers people who bought one or more items from AlbanyPark.com between June 21, 2020 and October 31, 2024. Albany Park estimates roughly 130,382 people fall inside that window.

Where the case stands, as of September 2026

The claim window has closed and the settlement is not yet final. A judge already signed off on sending notice to the class, which is likely why you received an email, a postcard, or saw an ad about this case. A second hearing, the final approval hearing, is scheduled for October 23, 2026, before the case is actually resolved.

The deadline to file a claim, opt out of the settlement, or object to its terms was the same day for all three, August 18, 2026, and it has passed. That overlap is normal. Claims and objections are collected ahead of the final hearing so the judge has real numbers, participation levels and any objections, in front of them when deciding whether the deal is fair.

No payment date has been set yet, and none can be set until the settlement clears final approval. If the judge approves it in October and nobody appeals, payments would follow on some timeline after that. If someone appeals, the whole thing stretches out further. As of this writing, that question is simply not resolved.

Who is actually in the class

You are likely a class member if you bought anything from AlbanyPark.com between June 21, 2020 and October 31, 2024. The settlement record does not state a minimum purchase amount or carve out any particular product line. If you have a receipt, an order confirmation email, or just a clear memory of ordering a sofa or a bed frame from Albany Park during that window, this settlement is about you.

Opting out versus objecting: not the same thing

Opting out (excluding yourself) by August 18, 2026 took you out of the class entirely. Anyone who did that gave up any payment from this settlement but kept their own right to sue Albany Park separately over the same pricing allegations.

Objecting was different. An objector stayed in the class and remained eligible for a payment while telling the judge in writing, by the same August 18, 2026 deadline, that the deal was unfair and why. The two were opposite choices, and neither is available now that the deadline has passed.

How much you can realistically expect

Every class member is estimated to receive up to $115. Do nothing, and you should automatically get a $115 store credit voucher good toward a future AlbanyPark.com purchase for 18 months, with no claim form required. Class members who filed a claim by the August 18, 2026 deadline took up to $115 in cash instead, paid electronically or by check.

The widely quoted $14,993,930 figure for this settlement is worth reading carefully. It is not a fixed pot of money the court set aside with a hard ceiling. Albany Park's own settlement math describes it as an estimate: about 130,382 estimated class members multiplied by up to $115 each comes out to roughly $14,993,930, if participation runs the way the company projected. It reads as a projected total payout, not a capped fund that claimants are competing against each other to draw from before it runs dry.

Even so, the settlement record is explicit that the $115 figures are estimates, not guarantees. They can be adjusted up or down depending on how many people file valid claims and what the court approves for attorneys' fees and costs at the final hearing. Nobody, including RecordingLaw.com, can promise you will receive exactly $115.

What you actually need to do

If store credit works for you, you do not need to do anything; the voucher is automatic for class members who did not opt out. The cash option required a claim form by August 18, 2026, and that window has closed, so there is nothing left to file.

What happens after the deadline

Filing a claim by the August 18, 2026 deadline did not mean a payment lands right away. The settlement still needs the judge's approval at the October 23, 2026 final approval hearing. Only after that, assuming no appeal delays things further, would cash payments and voucher activations actually go out. No specific payment date exists yet, so treat any claim of an exact date with skepticism.

If you missed the deadline, or you are not sure you are eligible

August 18, 2026 has passed, so filing for the cash option is no longer possible, but if you were a class member who did not opt out, the automatic store credit voucher should still apply once the settlement is finalized. If you are not sure you are eligible at all, check your own Albany Park order history, or use the lookup tools on the official settlement website. For other open consumer settlements RecordingLaw.com is tracking, see our data breach and consumer settlement tracker.