Hump Day Humour: Personal Data

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[LordAnubis]

We once were doing something with a product and the company sent us a contract with terms on it. We crossed out what we didn’t like, signed, and sent back. Didn’t think much of it. Later they tried to get us on the same thing we crossed out. To which we promptly replied that we’d not agreeed to that in the contract. Not even companies read their own contracts it seems ? 

Better yet. A rather large mining company was sent a bill mistakenly for a reasonably significant sum of money, surprisingly they just paid it ? no questions asked. Which is funny cos Australian mining companies are the worst possible customers in the whole world (actual fact I’m pretty sure) in terms of paying their bills. 

[Ritch]

I always read the contract, but have done that previously myself. No one ever rechecks it. Apart from me it would seen.

As for payment. I have had one company recently pay the same invoice 3 times. Ah well. Cant help some people.

[Fuzz]

51 minutes ago, Ritch said:

I always read the contract, but have done that previously myself. No one ever rechecks it. Apart from me it would seen.

As for payment. I have had one company recently pay the same invoice 3 times. Ah well. Cant help some people.

I have one customer who paid three invoices with separate direct deposits, all on the same day. The only thing that was right were the invoice numbers in the comments section. They managed to deposit the incorrect amount 3 times. Two of the invoices were already paid.

[Ken Gargett]

years ago, when i worked for a major international law firm in their banking dept (no names in case they still do it), every single one of our loan documents had a small clause which effectively said that if anyone on the planet defaulted on any payment for anything then we could call in this loan. so if fred nurk in dallas didn't make payments for his lawn mower, we could call in any loan by any of our clients. not once was this ever picked up on - remember that this isn't some small business owner, these were massive international entities with equally high powered law firms representing them. 

whether such a clause would have held up in court is debatable but they all signed it. bizarre. 

[wineguy]

Leave your devices off folks...

[Habana Mike]

Too true and not so funny as actually quite frightening.

I used to read all the language in physical contracts as well as the terms of services for any online offering end to end before agreeing. Always made a copy of the terms for the latter I agreed to as, being "online", they can and do modify their TOS documents all the time.

As an example of the degree I used to read contracts I was signing, I must point back to when I bought my first house in Georgia. 

100+ page document presented to me. Began reading, saw a reference to P|4 item 11 on page 37, section C.

Go to find the reference and no where in the document were a page 37 with a P|4 or item 11 anywhere in the contract.

After a couple hours of redlining and corrections, we finally reached something executable and I am not a lawyer by profession or by any means. Our realtor said she'd never seen anyone else actually read the contract!

Too much work to do that online anymore so scroll, click, move on. Unlikely I could afford the lawyers for a suit anyway unless they found it interesting.