Last Year on the Green · September: The Small Print
The idea: before you sign, find out what you have to do to stop paying, and when.
Read it
Who is in this book
- Renewal An auto-renewal keeps charging you unless you act to stop it by a deadline from ClauseDojo
- Redline Never sign anything unread, and tell a real trap from an ordinary term from ClauseDojo
- Fee An early-termination fee prices leaving so it feels too expensive from ClauseDojo
- Danya a child of the Green Asks "how do we know?"
- Cancel How you actually get out, and that a fair, symmetric exit is not a trap from ClauseDojo
- Tara a child of the Green Listens longest, speaks last
Every recurring character has a short tune, so you can tell who is on stage before a word is said. The tunes play only when you tap, and the Reading Access sound switch turns them off.
The Honest Page
Which parts of this story are true, stretched or made up?
True
- Eleven months at £28 is £308; £9 a visit, three visits a month for twelve months, is £324.
- In negative-option billing, a customer keeps being charged unless they act to decline; automatic renewal of a subscription is one common form. Source
- An early termination fee is a charge for ending an agreement before its term is up, written into the agreement itself to give people a reason to stay. Source
Stretched
- The case treats the climbing wall's terms as ordinary. What we simplified: Many such terms are ordinary, but rules on auto-renewal and cancelling differ between countries and change over time; check the law where you live, and the actual contract, before relying on a story.
Made up
- The climbing wall, Juno, the staff and every price and clause in the case are made up.
Tara’s sentence
The case stops where Tara speaks. Write the sentence you would have said. It stays on this device.
Kept.
Your sentence lives on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Ring the hammer for someone
Pick this book for someone younger. The link carries only the book, and it will wait for them on the Green.