Online shoppers sell souls to company 7,500 people have unwittingly sold their souls while shopping online after not checking the small print
Did you sell your soul for games? Fri Apr 16 04:25PM by Yahoo! UK Games Editor
Answer this question honestly – do you read the small print when you buy games on the internet?
High Street retailing giant GameStation decided to put this to the test and inserted a new clause into their terms and conditions earlier this month that granted them legal rights to the immortal souls of thousands of their online customers. Here, in darkest legalese, is how they got away with such a heinous act:
"By placing an order via this Web site 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. Should We wish to exercise this option, you agree to surrender your immortal soul, and any claim you may have on it, within 5 (five) working days of receiving written notification from gamestation.co.uk or one of its duly authorised minions."
GameStation’s fiendish clause specified that they might serve such notice in “six foot-high letters of fire” too, but also offered customers an option to opt out, rewarding them with a £5 money-off voucher if they did so.
Alas, hardly anyone noticed the clause, let alone the substantial bonus for spotting the gag. More to the point, the fact that it passed more or less unnoticed raises an important issue – too few people actually read the small print when they make online purchases.
According to GameStation, around 7,500 customers carelessly signed their souls away on the day. Were you one of them...?
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Posted: at 17-04-2010 10:08 PM (15 years ago) | Upcoming
Mayokun91 at 18-04-2010 11:39 PM (15 years ago) (m)
haha Toyin..so true.....i don't bother 2 read all those license agreement or terms of conditions,on games,apps,& dos stuffs,no mater hw short or long....i jst agree/accept lol.
Posted: at 18-04-2010 11:39 PM (15 years ago) | Newbie
wow scary stuff, lots of us don't wait to read those little lines, thinking it just the usual stuff, but from now on got to read all the lines before i ended in selling out my soul, wow really scary!!
Posted: at 19-04-2010 01:27 PM (15 years ago) | Newbie
eh nawa oooo. God will deliver us on this internet wahalas ooo. Who will waste time reading stories written in fonts that are so tiny called terms and agrements. Anyway, the name of Jesus and the HolyGhost fire is still very effective. No shaking.
Posted: at 19-04-2010 05:45 PM (15 years ago) | Upcoming
Bazemaster at 22-04-2010 03:18 PM (15 years ago) (m)
Quote from: ijibrin on 19-04-2010 01:27 PM
wow scary stuff, lots of us don't wait to read those little lines, thinking it just the usual stuff, but from now on got to read all the lines before i ended in selling out my soul, wow really scary!!
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Posted: at 22-04-2010 03:18 PM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac