Sold your soul recently?

[oggbashan]

Did you sell your soul for games?
Fri Apr 16 04:25PM by Yahoo! UK Games Editor

Answer this question honestly – do you read the small print when you buy games on the internet?

High Street retailing giant GameStation decided to put this to the test and inserted a new clause into their terms and conditions earlier this month that granted them legal rights to the immortal souls of thousands of their online customers. Here, in darkest legalese, is how they got away with such a heinous act:

"By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant Us a non transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul. Should We wish to exercise this option, you agree to surrender your immortal soul, and any claim you may have on it, within 5 (five) working days of receiving written notification from gamestation.co.uk or one of its duly authorised minions."

GameStation’s fiendish clause specified that they might serve such notice in “six foot-high letters of fire” too, but also offered customers an option to opt out, rewarding them with a £5 money-off voucher if they did so.

Alas, hardly anyone noticed the clause, let alone the substantial bonus for spotting the gag. More to the point, the fact that it passed more or less unnoticed raises an important issue – too few people actually read the small print when they make online purchases.

According to GameStation, around 7,500 customers carelessly signed their souls away on the day. Were you one of them...?




"the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini" - an April Fool item but what will GameStation do with 7,500 souls?

Og

 

[trysail]

...but what will GameStation do with 7,500 souls?

Og

Sell them to the highest bidder, of course! American commercial law ( under the Universal Commercial Code ) preserves all rights of "holders in due course."

 

[Lady_Guenivere]

That is hysterical!

 

[rgraham666]

I always read the contracts for my published works very carefully. Otherwise no.

Not that I worry about signing my soul away. Souls are lost by the way you act, not by signing on a dotted line.

 

[OzoneRed]

I once saw a website which, buried in the "terms and conditions" you had to agree to before entering, you agreed to split any lottery winnings you might come into with the site owner. I'm not sure if such a deal is legally enforceable, but now I always read the terms and conditions in full.

 

[LaRocha]

I'd sell my soul for 69 dollars.

 

[TxRad]

I'd sell my soul for 69 dollars.

The going rate is 666 dollars, I do believe.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Soul - an imaginary part of the human condition which has nor will it, ever be proven to exist. A symbol of those who have faith in an afterlife or supreme being. A part of a human that is purported to rise to heaven or descend into hell at the demise of the corporeal shell.

Now for 6^6^6 dollars I will sell something that can't be proved to exist.

 

[LaRocha]

Soul - an imaginary part of the human condition which has nor will it, ever be proven to exist. A symbol of those who have faith in an afterlife or supreme being. A part of a human that is purported to rise to heaven or descend into hell at the demise of the corporeal shell.

Now for 6^6^6 dollars I will sell something that can't be proved to exist.

The Epicureans believed that the soul existed, but it dissolved once you died and there was no afterlife. I think there's a few religions who believe in soul but no afterlife.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The Epicureans believed that the soul existed, but it dissolved once you died and there was no afterlife. I think there's a few religions who believe in soul but no afterlife.

There is a big difference in belief and actuality.

 

[LaRocha]

There is a big difference in belief and actuality.

I don't know how you'd tap into 'actual existence' and then compare it to your own experience of existence.