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Re:Russian Man Changes Small Print in Credit Card Agreement,... by IanCal on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @04:58PM (#6175578)
> Technically, the man did nothing wrong. His bank agreed to the altered terms.

Yep, which is why he won the first case. The terms are ridiculous though (fee of $200,000 if the bank cancels the card), which is why I would expect it to be deemed excessive and thrown out (same as EULAs that demand someones firstborn).

Re:Russian Man Changes Small Print in Credit Card Agreement,... by eksith on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @05:05PM (#6175627)
Yeah, thrown out or severely reduced probably. It's pretty obvious he was very confident (and maybe a bit foolhardy) doing this or he wouldn't have put such a large number.

I'm curious as to whether he's done something similar previously.

Side note: There's a little-known legal provision that lets people sue a tele/direct-marketer if you ask them to take you off their list and they still keep contacting you. You have to take down the company name, get the name of the caller and ask them if they have "do not contact/call" and to put you on it. If they keep calling you after that (I think 3 times is the limit within 30 days or so), you can take them to small claims court.

Re:Russian Man Changes Small Print in Credit Card Agreement,... by gnicholas on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @05:36PM (#6175825)
A court might not give him everything that he's asking for, but this situation isn't exactly like a EULA. Those are contracts of adhesion: drafted entirely by one party and offered on a take-it-or-leave-it basis to a (generally) less-sophisticated party. Courts have special rules about construing provisions in those situations, but such rules wouldn't necessarily apply here (since the contractual language was the product of joint drafting). Of course, I'm not a Russian lawyer, so my 2 cents are probably worth more like 2 rubles....
Re:Russian Man Changes Small Print in Credit Card Agreement,... by Elepsis on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @06:29PM (#6176116)
Given that 1 Ruble is worth about $0.03 at current exchange rates, your 2 cents are actually more like 6 cents.
Re:Russian Man Changes Small Print in Credit Card Agreement,... by pash on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @11:36PM (#6177216)
He meant two kopeks.