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Subject:Re: HELP - Bad contract wording? From:JIMCHEVAL -at- AOL -dot- COM Date:Mon, 8 Sep 1997 11:44:04 -0400
In a message dated 97-09-08 10:54:37 EDT, bosscomm -at- interlog -dot- com writes:
<< His response was "Oh, just cross it out. It's always been in our
standard contract so we leave it in although we know it isn't
enforceable any more anyway." >>
"But of course some people don't know that, so they just go ahead and sign,
and then everytime they want to deal with another agency, they have to let us
know about it and we get all this competitive intelligence, plus it
discourages them from going elsewhere anyway, so we got all these benefits
without any of the legal hassles.
Neat, huh?"
The swine.
Jim C.
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