How do they get away with this crap now adays. It is getting out of control the way these lawyers can word labels and contracts.
Target gift cards: A lawsuit said that GIFT CARDS could not expire any time ever. Once paid for, that gift card was good for life. Well TARGET (kinda like Walmart) somehow had the balls to say that they charge a service charge if the card isnt used in a certain amount of time. A SERVICE CHARGE for a gift card. You already paid for it once. Now they want you to pay 3 dollars a month for it if you do NOT use it. WTF.
Disney Land tickets. Buy 4 days for the price of 2. The only catch is: you have to go four days in a row. 4 consecutive days. Who the heII does that?
Blockbuster video. Get 100 dvd rentals for a certain price. The only catch is: You can only rent one a week each and every week. If you dont rent one for one week, you lose that rental. So you have to spend that discount over a period of TWO YEARS. This is for real. ALSO: That discount is good ONLY at that ONE store. If you try to go to a different blockbuster, Too F'ing bad for you.
Weight gainer. 3500 calories. GREAT. Fine print reads: based on servings PER DAY. Well no fvck. Basically you need 3 shakes to reach 3500 calories. That is COMPLETE misleading. Why not just say: Weight gainer 40,000. Based on servings per YEAR.
The new trend now adays is to say THIS ITEM IS FREE. The word FREE no longer has to mean : no payment required. Lawyers now define FREE as "The FREEDOM TO CHOOSE" Meaning, once you BUY this product, you have the freedom to use it however you want... I swear this is real shlt.
Also, one item defined it as, the FREEDOM to express yourself.
I wont even get started with cell phone contracts being misleading.
So many exclusions and exemptions and expiration dates, and you have to buy one ticket at full price before your free ticket can be used. You have to activate the pass with a credit card before it can be used, etc.
The employees selling these things dont know the contracts so when you ask them they say whatever it takes to get your money.
I ALWAYS ask what all the exclusions are and they try to get you off the subject by asking you a question and getting you side tracked. It is kind of insulting when they do that to the point of pissing me off.