Re: Changes to Canadian monitoring contract law

[Mike <wholet@xxxxxxxx>]

RoberBass wrote:
>> Is anyone aware of any Canadian provinces where long term monitoring
>> contracts can be cancelled immediately by the client provided the
>> contract is for service only, and does not cover paying down any
>> equipment costs in the rate ?
>
> That's an excellent consumer protection law.  We need that in the USA to
> protect homeowners from unscrupulous alarm companies.  Remember the guy
> who said he called an alarm company to repair his local, unmonitored
> alarm?  They came out and replaced the battery or some such thing, then
> had him sign the "repair bill."  On the front it said that by signing he
> was agreeing to the terms and conditions on the back.  On the reverse
> side, in airline ticket size type was a 3-year monitoring agreement.
> What a bunch of jerks.
>

--baloney detector--

most states have laws that govern contract law and part of that law is
minimum type size.  If type size in a contract is smaller than
prescribed by law the contract is non binding.  Sounds like mr bASS is
making up stories again.  tsk, tsk.