Re:Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
by sulam on Thursday October 29, 2015 @04:01AM
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You're trusting that they or their acquirers will honor the contracts that they have with you. In the case of Homejoy, my assumption is that the claims/promises they made constitute a contract with their users that limits their ability to make use of your data outside the described scope. IANAL, but I think there's a reason we don't regularly hear about things like this - it's actually hard to do without getting sued.
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Re:Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
by akshatpradhan on Thursday October 29, 2015 @09:30AM
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Truth be told, they've probably got more experience than anybody else to make Homejoy 2.0 a much better product.
No they don't.
Why? Because the two thing you need to run a professional housecleaning service are access to people's houses and their credit card numbers. Maintaining this access demands far more judgement, care, and integrity than Aaron Cheung is ever likely to have.
A contract requires mutual consideration. Whatever someone says in their dying breath doesn't constitute a contract. A last will, perhaps, but not a contract. (To my knowledge, estate law does not apply to corporations.)
The consideration provided by HomeJoy's customers was, naturally, payment.