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[–] antsu@lemmy.wtf 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"By opening AND using this product (...)"

Have someone else open it for you, then consume the product yourself. Boom, no contract. Checkmate, lawyers!

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

hand it to a baby. it's like the cursed weapon loophole.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And loose your right to claim the Amazon $5 gift card? You'll fold. Just like all the others.

[–] MacStache@sopuli.xyz 106 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Isn't that an illegally forced agreement? I mean, the consumer already bought the product and is forced to enter an agreement after the fact? At least it feels like it would be illegal.

It's the same with software, sure, but somehow I've been brainwashed into thinking it's ok because it's a digital product/I only agree to a license of said product.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 52 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

If this is in the US you are 1 year away before companies can run Squid Games, "illegally forced agreement" is a thing of the past

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Squid Game at least honor the votes to end the game, IRL they'll just cancel elections lmfao.

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[–] wieson@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

Def illégal in Germany. You can't force an arbitration agreement.

[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 410 points 4 days ago (8 children)

It says you're bound by "opening and using" the product, rather than "opening or using". Have someone else open it for you. Then neither of you have done both.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 264 points 4 days ago

Thus is the kind of legalistic bullshit interpretation I can get right behind

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 79 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Contractual malicious compliance let's go

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[–] thrawn@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Vital Proteins got bought out by Nestle and almost immediately turned to shit iirc

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[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 71 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

By reading this comment, you agree to be bound eternally in thrall to me, and wear a maid dress for my amusement.

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Ugh damn it man. okay pm me your address

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[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So when do I get the dress?

[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Post a PO box and I'll send it over.

[–] seralth@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago

Jokes on you I'm into that shit

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[–] LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

So when my underage child opens this what's the plan? Clearly theyre not old enough to enter into an "legally" binding agreement, right?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 247 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is Vital Proteins brilliant response to being taken to court over heavy metal and "foreign materials" contamination in their products.

[–] Brunette6256@sh.itjust.works 54 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Do you have any supporting links? I saw a reddit post saying something similar but I cant find a real article or support. Either way I am returning the product.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 149 points 4 days ago (6 children)

https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/prop65/complaints/2017-02480C5316.pdf

Found searching ‘“vital proteins” lawsuit’

Sued by an environmental nonprofit for failing to warn about the presence of lead and heavy metals as required by CA law. They settled.

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[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 128 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Mandatory arbitration agreement for a protein shake or whatever it is. First it may not be enforceable. Second it makes me think that this product is not fit for consumption.

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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Lol too bad they only wrote it in English

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Time to use the box cutter and open it from the bottom.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Yeah they really slipped up by saying "and" using it, as opposed to "or".

I'm going to gnaw into it like a little rat.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 93 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

No way this is legally binding. It amounts to a bait and switch. A product was purchased and provided without agreement to any further terms. Then they sneak in supposed terms after the fact based upon the action of opening the product. That is a change in agreement made without any consideration for the purchaser. That's not generally allowed in contact law.

Furthermore, I really doubt that they can get away with the argument that the act of opening a product can constitute any amount of conscious agreement to some writing on a package. If for no other reason than that this is (afaik) a novel way to attempt to coerce agreement such that nobody would expect such an agreement to be part of the opening process and likely won't notice it.

And it's not accessible for every person who may be using this product even if they do notice the words. Are you a non-English speaker? Farsighted? Blind? Illiterate? Would you have any way to even be aware that those words are terms that somehow binding you to an agreement by virtue of your opening the thing you just bought? Would you have any reason to even suspect that that is the case?

Also, they'll undoubtedly claim that the fact that you have the opened product means that you agreed to the terms, but that is also not the case. Your mom opened it for you and wrapped it as a gift? You bought it secondhand? The packaging was torn open when it shipped to you and you never had any reason to see this text in the first place? It was misprinted? Any of those things and more would mean you never agreed to anything. And they have no way to prove any of those things weren't the case.

Just stupid. I have zero doubt that any number of lawyers would love take this to court and get that payday.

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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 106 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Add to this the fact they try to enforce mandatory arbitration - a thing that shouldn't ever exist to begin with, in any jurisdiction, and is actually unenforceable in many.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 50 points 4 days ago (5 children)

In most of Europe, no contract can take away legal rights

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[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There should be an "protest buy" action to any the products that do this bullshit. A large group of people buy the products and then return them to the store for a refund. Especially for perishable goods, this would make them worthless. Which would make stocking such products a loss and force the vendors and manufacturers to cut the shit out.

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[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 73 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There's an easy solution: keep buying it, break the seal to get to the message, then return it. Have your friends do the same, at the same store. Pretty soon that product will be gone and you can move on to the next store.

If the store starts to bitch about it, you can claim that you wanted to see if the statement had been removed.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Zanz@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Lg tried it on refrigerators, even though refrigerators are not delivered in boxes.So the customer never receives them. The delayed or denied every warranty claim on their stupid 2 stage refrigerant pump, then said since the customer opened the box with the terms agreement that they couldn't sue. It took more than a year to resolve just that there could be a class action lawsuit against LG.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm gonna need some good news soon. This dystopia just keeps getting worse and worse.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The good news is you can choose to save your unborn children the pain of existence on planet earth.

Get a vasectomy. For them.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Somehow... Not the good news I was looking for.

[–] Unbecredible@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The good news is that these things pass, buddy. All things pass, and it's almost over really. This economy, this president, they won't last forever. This country, this current set of land masses, this current set of planets. It's all gonna just...pass. Gonna be just one drop in a lake of space and an ocean of time. Gonna be pressed into a microscopic crease in the fabric of a spacetime already contorted by titanic folds of incomprehensible number and arrangement. Until it can hardly be said to have happened at all.

[–] LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Everything ends, nothing matters. Be happy for the little things and don't screw it up for others

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I had one of these fridges. The pumps even got an extended warranty since they failed so often. Mine died on year 6 of the 5 year standard MFG and it still got fixed for free because of the class action lawsuit.

I learned about the lawsuit after the fact too.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 70 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Forced Arbitration should be illegal everywhere.

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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 91 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Would love to see them try and enforce whatever EULA they wrote up.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 53 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They’ll drag out any legal challenge in hopes you won’t want to pay for months of legal fees fighting it, on top of whatever legal fees are incurred that caused you to challenge it in the first place…

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[–] Part4@infosec.pub 53 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Is there a bigger red flag than a message on it saying 'if you break this seal you can't sue us!'

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[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 53 points 4 days ago

I hope you returned that shit. That’s not mildly infuriating, that’s capitalism has officially run amok and needs to be taken out back and shot in the head

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 55 points 4 days ago

That's concerning.

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