If I was pressured into signing a contract and misinformed, am I still legally bound?
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If I was pressured into signing a contract and misinformed, am I still legally bound?
I was called by a company that offered an SEO reseller service. They told me
that it would only cost a dollar to start and kept pressuring me into signing a
contract before I knew all the details. I told them on the phone that I wanted
to think about it many times but they kept insisting that it would only cost me a
dollar for the first month. Only later after I signed the contract did I realize
it was $499 a month. New Link Destination
day, I found out the contract was for 2 years with no way out. What do I do? The company has threatened me through emails and
phone calls with lawsuits. They also guaranteed sales, 10k leads per month, and even bribed me with a cruise if I was unable to meet my quota, all which was said over the phone and not is not in the contract.
Asked on May 30, 2018 under Business Law, Alabama
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 5 years ago | Contributor
Being "pressured" is not a legal defense to signing a contract or your obligations under it: you had the legal right to simply say "no" and hang up on them, and nothing preventing you from doing so.
If you were provided with a copy of the contract to sign (whether a physical copy or an online/virtual one to view), you are held to the terms of the contract, since you had the chance to review it and see what those terms were. The law presumes that people read, understand, and agree to what they signed, and so holds them to it.
Even if the claimed that the terms were other than what was provided to you in the contract, you ar held to the contract: the signed contract supercedes prior discussions.
They cannot change the terms after you sign the agrement, however; you and they both are held to what was in the document you signed, and either of you can enforce those terms against the other.
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