Sign a 7 Page Contract to Order a Pizza

[MrMan]

I saw a Facebook message about this today. If you want to get the special discounts from Pizza Hut carry-out, they tell you that you have to order online. The man who posted it said they didn't even have a menu with prices at the store. You have to look online.

In order to order a Pizza Hut Pizza online, you have to agree to a 7 page terms of service agreement.... basically sign a contract... and also agree to several pages of Privacy Policy.

Imagine if you went to a restaurant and they gave you 10 or so pages of contract to sign before they would sell you a pizza? I don't want to read a contract. I'd walk out. But since it is online, people think they don't have to read it, and they are willing to just click and agree to the strangest of terms to get a pizza, or whatever little piece of junk they want to buy online.

We need to boycott online stores and especially brick and mortar stores with online 'aps' that require us to sign a long contract to use their services. Having these long contracts creates this bad business ethics climate where people just agree to stuff without reading it, and have no intention to keep their word (hence the bad business ethics.)

There was a university that did research that found that in order to get free software, students would agree to give up the right to name their first-born child. They clicked agreements without reading them.

What we need to do is use contract-length as a major factor in our business decisions and let companies know we refuse to buy their products because their contracts are too long. If you want to sign up for banking and they give you 20 pages of contract to sign up, you go to log into a second section, and they give you 50 more pages to read, complain and close your account and let them know why.

If you can't cut and paste a contract and it won't work on 'read-out-loud' or if they require you to READ the contract, report it to the EEOC as discrimination against the blind. They should have contracts set up so blind people can put them in read-out-loud. And they can ask people to __agree__, but shouldn't require that a blind person __read__ to be able to agree to a contract. It's discriminatory. Some blind people can read braille, but people who go blind late in life might not be able to read. They can just listen to the computer, if a contract allows for cut and paste or a screen reader. (Some contracts are light boxes, presented as pictures on the screen.)

Who is willing to join me? If you want to buy a pizza, refuse if they ask you to sign a T&C and let them know you will be shopping elsewhere. Refuse to sign up to online services if there is a long T&C and drop them a message to let them know?

Companies are letting the legal departments run wild and make longer and longer unreasonable contracts. Why? Because consumers give them no pushback at all.