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[–] 30 points 1 year ago (8 children)

What a piece of shit judge.

She basically said: "You signed a contract, the contract holder can change it at anytime without notice and without recompense. Sucks to suck."

Handing even more power to our corporate overlords.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    There is recompense for the terms of the contract being changed, and that's being able to cancel the contract.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You're ok with a corporation changing the terms you agreed to AFTER you agreed to them?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    If I signed a contract allowing them to do so, then I kinda have to be. Or, I could cancel the contract as previously stated.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Then you don't understand how truly widespread these anti-consumer practices are in contract law.

    Contract changes should require notice so we as consumers can knowingly cancel our contracts if the changes do not meet our individual standards. Otherwise, corporations have the power to make us retroactively agree to hostile contract clauses.

    Corporations could revoke a right we previously had under the contract that would now be against the new contract. We could be in breach of the new contract because they changed it without our knowledge or consent.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not clear from the article, and I canceled before this. Did the ads get added mid subscription, since you usually buy a year adding ads halfway through is bullshit and shouldn't be allowed. If the change went into effect on renewal I'd feel differently.

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    [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Stop using it. It's that simple. There are a ton of alternatives out there that cost nothing... These idiots seem to have forgotten that we only used them because it was relatively inexpensive for what we could pirate, and we only pirated stuff to avoid ads. Just go back to our roots, kill their revenue streams, and maybe then they'll get the idea.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    This, we started getting ads and prime was almost never 2 days, usually more. This a long with all the Bezos BS made me stop not only prime but using Amazon all together. I've been using Amazon since the late 90s, back when they were just books.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Of course. The US is the greatest bastion of kleptocracy on the planet. If you pay for a good or service in advance, a company can take it away or cripple it whenever and however they like with no recourse or remedy for consumers. Capitalism in action. This was never going to end any other way.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    All subscribers agree to a contract when they join Prime, she said, giving Amazon the ability to alter the nature of the services provided under the contract.

    "Pray I do not alter the nature of the services provided under the contract further."

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