The Word Cloud

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  by Barb 2 years ago

  I brought a xmas present from a website once where I didn't read the terms and conditions. What I didn't realise was that I had been signed up to their "club" at a cost of £30 a month. Buyer beware, and all that, but now I read every term and condition everywhere.
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  by CJ 2 years ago

  Something like that has already happened - for an April Fool's prank, Gamestation put a clause in their terms and conditions that said on clicking the agreement, you were selling them your immortal soul:
  
  "The 7,500 lost souls who didn't read small print
  
  
  Proof that no one reads the terms and conditions when buying stuff on the internet: online computer games retailer Gamestation played a trick on its customers on April Fool's Day, by amending its terms and conditions thus: "By placing an order via this website on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant Us a non-transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul." Had customers clicked through for further details, they would have been told the clause was a joke and been offered a £5 gift voucher. But despite 7,500 people ordering from Gamestation that day, not a single voucher has been claimed so far."
  
  (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/business-diary-24042010-1953071.html)
  
  What makes it even better is that if people did read the terms and conditions, there was also a clause in there where Gamestation would give you a fiver.
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  by Weens 2 years ago

  That's hilarious, and shows the importance of reading terms and conditions. When I first got a computer, I read them all, every sentence. But they nearly all said the same thing, so gradually I stopped reading them. I'm sure they fill them with gobbledygook and legal terms that have to be looked up in dictionaries, to put you off reading them. I had better go back to reading them again.
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  by Wrathnar the Unreasonable 2 years ago

  I loved Terry Pratchett's version of 'the small print':
  
  This device is provided without warranty of any kind as to reliability, accuracy, existence or otherwise or fitness for any particular purpose and Bioalchemic Products specifically does not warrant, guarantee or imply or make any representations as to its merchantability for any particular purpose and furthermore shall have no liability for or responsibility to you or any other person, entity or deity with respect of any loss or damage whatsoever caused by this device or object or by any attempts to destroy it by hammering it against a wall or dropping it into a deep well or any other means whatsoever and moreover asserts that you indicate your acceptance of this agreement or any other agreement that may be substituted at any time by coming within five miles of the product or observing it through large telescopes or by any other means because you are an easily cowed moron who will happily accept arrogant and unilateral conditions on a piece of highly priced garbage that you would not dream of accepting on a bag of dog biscuits and is used solely at your own risk.
  
  (from 'The Truth')
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  by EmmaD 2 years ago

  Aw, God bless the Man in the Hat...
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  by Steve 2 years ago

  Barb - I knew someone out there must've had something like that happen, so it's good to know that at least one is keeping an eye on things.
  
  Elysia - That's the kind of thing I felt must have been tried by an organisation somewhere. I think that aptly makes the point of this blog.
  
  Weens - You've jolted an old theory I'd forgotten, so there's a blog about that coming up from me... ta.
  
  Wrathnar - excellent quoting there - and it does hit the nail on the head. Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare and Winston Churchill are together responsible for the majority of quotes used, so it's grand to have a bit of Pratchett. For me it's most often Douglas Adams wording I refer to.