Arbitration & Mediation

Online "EULA" Contract Requires You to Transfer Your Immortal Soul as Term

By Christopher B. Hopkins, Esq.

Our friends at CNET, by way of a Fox News story, advises us of an online purchase contract where the seller slipped in a term to see if people were actually reading it.

Here's the contractual term:

"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 gamesation.co.uk or one of its duly authorised minions."

The clause included an opt-out provision and, if you did so (i.e., you caught the joke), the buyer received $5 off the order.

The study April Fool's Joke revealed 90% didn't check the joke and now owe their immortal soul to a video game retailer.

Full post as published by Florida Arbitration Law on April 18, 2010 (boomark / email).