Do GameStation own your soul?

Taken from Newslite:

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Thousands of shoppers unknowingly signed their souls over to a computer-game store after failing to read the terms and conditions on their website.

GameStation added the "immortal soul clause" to online purchases earlier this month stating customers granted them the right to claim their soul.

While all shoppers during the test were given a simple tick box option to opt out, very few did this, which would have also rewarded them with a £5 voucher.

The store claims this shows 88 percent of people do not read the terms and conditions of a website before they make a purchase.

Bosses also say they will not be enforcing their rights and will now email customers nullifying any claim on their soul.

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Lol! I'm probably guilty of not reading the T&Cs myself, but fortunately my soul is safe as I haven't shopped with Gamestation for a while...

Link: http://newslite.tv/2010/04/06/7500-s...ngly-sold.html

Double cookies for Gamestation adding quite a humorous clause.

Haha, that's brilliant.

Gotta admit that is true. When you are buying something, you usually want to finish the transaction before anything times out, and you either scroll through the mandatory textbox, just waiting for the 'Order' button to become active, or you just tick the box. If you did a poll on Hexus asking who actually has ever read one, I bet 98%+ would not... :)

Thank goodness I am not in america so I can't even sell my soul, all they need now is some satanic group to do the same thing and then give them over to satan.
No one would even know :)

It's quite a clever way to highlight the issue by GameStation, especially by offering a monetary reward to those that actually did read the T&Cs.

What remains to be seen is how many people read them and just agreed anyway just for the laugh it gave them?

lol - a funny way of showing something we all rarely bother looking at.

When you go to install something, how many times have you read through the T&C's? They can put whatever they want in there, knowing that very few will take the time to read it, and that it is simply seen as a compulsory step in the installation process.