You should read your contract when you sign up. It's in there.
Whether it is or it isn't "in the contract" the practice is deceptive. I signed an annual maintenance contract with a schedule of applications. It ran for a year. I don't remember the specific dates but there was a fertilizer one, a pest control one, a pre-emergent, etc. All scripted to end or renew this month. Anything outside that should have been clearly communicated. It was not. I did not once request additional visits or ask for a change of the schedule to which I agreed. The company deciding at its sole volition to perform additional treatments outside that schedule should not be my responsibility. Leaving a bag on my door after the fact is not sufficient.
That automatic renewal tactic should be illegal. DirecTV and I presume other cable companies pull the same bullshit.
Here at work switched from AT&T to Time warner with phones, Internets and such, I am now fighting AT&T and Sprint, both claiming that I had auto renewed the month before. Fuck both of them, they turned it over to collections, sent both collections cease and desist letters in reference to calling me. If memory serves Sprint has already lost one federal case in California over auto renew.
When did they put phones out on a golf course?
You need to pay your bills. You know you're just trying to rip those poor companies off.
Price matching is for suckers.
And the poors.
Should be illegal. Edit - No one said anything about not reading the contract or knowing what they're signing for. It's a simple argument. Automatic renewals without confirmation should be illegal.
why?
It's just like this dump. Every year, I forget to non-renew and next thing you know, the same $150.00 debit from my account is made. WTF is that? Oh....my X dues. Well, they won't get me next year.
BTW your credit card declined, can you post your new number please.
Automatic renewals without confirmation should be illegal.
Why should any legal contract extend without both parties agreeing to it?
Oh sure. Can I PM you? Wouldn't want the rest of these miscreants to see it.
You confirmed it when you signed the contract containing that provision. There is a mechanism for you to decline the renewal without penalty, but you have to get off your lazy ass, read your contract and take some action.These companies are taking advantage of you only to the extent that you can't be bothered to read what you sign or take the appropriate actions under the contract to preserve your rights.You can't just "set it and forget it", despite what television may have told you.
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