Need legal forms? A buying agreement? A selling agreement? Employment contract? A lease? A loan? The Internet Legal Research Group has enough of them to start building a Tower of Babel of Legalese.
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Sprint Encourages Its Retail Stores To Lie
By 10.18.06
If you’re a current Sprint customer, watch out when you buy a new phone in a retail store. The store may try to trick you into signing up for a new contract, and Sprint, Inc, says it’s totally cool.
New Ways To Escape Your Cellphone Contract
By 10.16.06
Spotted some good tips on getting out of your cellphone contract, without paying a penalty fee, over at Wiki-How. Most of them we’ve posted already but here’s some new kids on the block.
Text Message Packages Hamstring Sprint Cancellations
By 10.12.06
An important caveat for those trying to cancel their Sprint service over the recent rate hike: If you’re on a text message plan, where you get say 1000 message for $10 or 300 messages for $5, this trick may not work for you, at least not at first blush.
Sprint Retention Department Phone Numbers
By 10.11.06
Here’s two extra phone numbers that may help you if you’re trying to cancel Sprint.
Defeat Sprint’s Rate Hike Cancellation Lies
By 10.11.06
Sprint’s retention department is trying its darnedest to prevent customers from jumping out a window of opportunity that would let them cancel service without penalty.
Cingular’s One-Way Contract
By 9.20.06
Beckie is a reader who started out with a cell phone from a small company that got bought by AT&T. As you well know, AT&T was bought by Cingular. A few months later, Beckie received a letter from Cingular asking her to voluntarily discontinue her service because more than 50% of her calls were using competing networks and she was no longer economically feasible for Cingular. In return, Cingular would allow her to keep her numbers. No refund. No apology. No free unlocked phones.
Cancel Cingular By “Moving” To Caliente
By 9.8.06
A reader reports he was able to get out of his Cingular contract by telling them he was moving to a remote area of NV.
So You’ve Decided To Join The Army Just To Cancel Your Cellphone
By 7.27.06
We’ve noted that one “tactic” to leave your cellphone is joining the armed services, and Davros, a former cellphone call rep sent in some rockets red glare to illuminate the particulars.
Buying a Car and Getting Away With It
By 5.3.06
Inspired by our post “HOW TO: Buy A Car Without Putting A Shotgun In Your Mouth,” M. writes in a story about navigating the tricky world of car financing.
Lop-Sided Cell Phone Contracts To Be Decided By Supreme Court
By 3.15.06
Speaking of crappy cell phone providers, we’ve long been aggrieved by the providers’ one-sided contracts. Sign up for a cellphone and all you are really guaranteeing a company like Verizon, Sprint or T-Mobile is that, over the course of the next year, you will continue to pay them whatever arbitrary monthly fee that they spontaneously dream up, regardless whether or not that is the fee you initially agreed to.
Dropkick the Cellphone Contract
By 3.3.06
There’s a “Roaming Hack” article which posits a way to get out of your cell phone contract without paying a termination fee. Basically, make it unprofitable for the cell phone company to keep you as a customer. To do this, use up hundreds of minutes in a roaming area. Many carriers cover roaming costs and so they will end up losing big chunks of money over time under this system, the blog alleges.
