Luckily, GameStation offered a way to get out of that clause. If users didn't uncheck the box, they agreed to grant GameStation "a non transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul." GameStation said that if it chose to exercise the soul transfer, it would serve notice in 6-foot-high letters of fire. "It is contrary to public policy to sell children in return for free services," the company explained.Īnd on April Fool's Day in 2010, the British retailer GameStation inserted a new clause into its license agreement, with a check box already ticked. Before they could get on the Internet, users had to check a box agreeing to "assign their first born child to us for the duration of eternity." According to the Guardian, six people signed up, but the company providing the Wi-Fi said the clause likely wouldn't be enforceable in a court of law. The company, Manchester-based Purple, said it inserted the clause in its agreement "to illustrate the lack of consumer awareness of what they are signing up to when they access free wifi."Ī few years earlier, several Londoners agreed (presumably inadvertently) to give away their oldest child in exchange for Wi-Fi access. In 2017, 22,000 people who signed up for free public Wi-Fi inadvertently agreed to 1,000 hours of community service - including cleaning toilets and "relieving sewer blockages," the Guardian reported. The mischievous clauses tend to pop up from time to time, usually in cheeky England. To demonstrate the importance of reading the fine print, many companies don't give they take. "We created the top-secret Pays to Read campaign in an effort to highlight the importance of reading policy documentation from start to finish." "We understand most customers don't actually read contracts or documentation when buying something, but we know the importance of doing so," the company said. Squaremouth, a Florida insurance company, had inserted language promising a reward to the first person who emailed the company. Georgia high school teacher Donelan Andrews won a $10,000 reward after she closely read the terms and conditions that came with a travel insurance policy she purchased for a trip to England. Others have found themselves on the losing end of a contract they didn't bother to read. But one woman who didn't earned herself $10,000.
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