Automatic Renewal Contract Must Not Terminate Commercial Fraud Trap For South African Chinese

In South Africa Entrepreneurship Some Chinese living in the world, some of whom do not know much about South African law, are often prosecuted for no reason. Even people with good English proficiency are deceived because of negligence.

For example, someone signed a contract in the gym for 1 years, but not for second years. Habitual thinking The gym will cancel the contract automatically. But the truth is: many fitness clubs in South Africa will automatically fulfill the renewal contract. 3 or 4 years later, you will receive a notice of arrears and ask you to make up for it. If the deadline is not handed over, you will be taken to court. Another company contract says, "this contract can not be terminated!" once you sign it, it becomes the "permanent customer" of the company.

- do not mess with your signature.

Recently, Ma Shi Qin, a Sino African translation company, found that some Chinese did not sign the contract because they did not see clearly, resulting in serious consequences. In this regard, she wanted to remind Chinese people not to sign at random.

Ma Shiqin said that last year, she talked about an example. After the police were caught by the police, the police extorted and beat the Chinese. After that, the police asked the Chinese to sign a file, and said that they could go away after signing the sentence, and the Chinese could not leave the police station early and did not know what the content was. Recently, some Chinese wanted to expand their business and trusted local website production companies. They did not see the above terms and signed the words, resulting in heavy losses.

- non cancellable contract

Six months ago, a saleswoman from a local website in South Africa found the Chinese Lady Wang's company. She introduced the service content of the website. She wanted to expand her business and absorb more customers, and her business was mostly local customers. She thought it would be icing on the cake if she advertised on the website.

At that time, Ms. Wang signed the contract in half an hour and paid the deposit (10 thousand Rand, the annual service fee 20 thousand Rand). But Ms. Wang later checked the Internet for 2 months without seeing any changes and additions on her website (according to the contract: Ms. Wang will add customer request information on her website, and the message will be automatically transferred to Ms. Wang's mailbox). Miss Wang did not find any service, then called the website company, the website company promised to check, but in the past two months, there was no result. Ms. Wang went to the website company to ask the situation. The website company received Ms. Wang, and showed her the situation in the website company. Ms. Wang looked at it with a stare. The website company could receive the order information from the customer. Everything was normal, but she could not get any information in her mailbox.

Ms. Wang was not satisfied with that. She told the manager of the website to cancel the contract, but the manager said the contract could not be cancelled. Ms. Wang wondered why. The manager took out the contract and pointed out to Mrs. Wang that Mrs. Wang could be dumbfounded this time. There was a small line on the contract, which said, "this contract must not be terminated!"

Finally, Mrs. Wang left angrily. After that, the people of the network company kept pushing money. Ms. Wang didn't pay the money, and asked the website company to fix the software again, but the network company simply did not check its own procedures, but sent Ms. Wang to court. Ms. Wang has provoked a lawsuit that annoyed her greatly.

- Gym contract

The Chinese lady, who was in the clothing business, wanted to keep fit because she worked very hard. She signed a contract for 1 years in the gym, but she only went there once. For business reasons, she often returned home. After 3 years, she received a summons from the court. She said she had not paid the money for 2 years owing to the gym.

Ms. fang had already forgotten what she had done in the gym, and the sudden lawsuit prevented her from cooking. Finally, her lawyer failed to win the lawsuit. Mrs. Fang paid the arrears and went to the gym in person to cancel the contract. Ma Shi Qin explained that if such a thing happens, if you do not cancel the contract in person, they will renew the contract automatically. Therefore, we must be optimistic about the terms of the contract. Everything must have a beginning and an end, otherwise we will find ourselves in trouble.

- "risk" of bank automatic transfer

Ms. fan and her boyfriend run a restaurant. They are also signed in the gym. They are automatically deducted from the bank account every month. Two people live for many years but have not married. So the cost is deducted from two people's accounts. The two people only persisted for half a year and no longer go to the gym, and the bank has been paying the gym for 3 years.

Later, there was no money in her boyfriend's account, and he soon stopped deducting it. Ms. fan's account has always had a lot of money, which has been deducted until MS fan finds out. Ms. fan had to go to the gym to cancel the contract in order to solve the problem. But the gym still overcharged Ms. fan for 3 months. The reason was: "the documents to terminate the contract will be handed over to the bank only after 3 months."

Ma Shiqin warned Chinese: automatic transfer is very dangerous, especially for the service industry, they cancel the contract after six months are normal, virtually pay more than 6 months, be careful!

- bundled account

Mr. Gao, who works in Chinese funded enterprises, went to the gym with his colleague Mr. Sheng. When he signed the contract, Mr. Gao and Mr. Sheng shared an account, signed by Mr. Gao. After two years of insisting on going to the gym for 1 years, Mr. Sheng was transferred to Mozambique. Mr. Gao went to the gym alone and found it boring. 2 years later, Mr. Gao received the bill and said that he owed money to the gym. Mr. Gao went to the gym to ask why so many. He answered, "this is the cost of two people." Mr. Gao said that Mr. Sheng returned home, and why he had to pay his own money. The answer was that although he was two, he used an account number to tie it up. Since Mr. Gao signed the contract, he would pay two people's money.

Ma Shiqin reminded the Chinese people not to sign at random, and try not to transfer money automatically. South Africa's commercial frauds are everywhere.