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Can i cancel my vodafone contract as i have never signed a contract

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  • boo_star
    boo_star Posts: 3,202 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    edited 9 July 2010 at 9:24PM
    The reply from Heres the deal is completely and utterly wrong! You have no chance of getting out of the contract because without even looking at verbal contracts, you also have a contract by conduct. i.e. They supplied a phone and network agreement, and you have used it for 6 months. Ego you have accepted the contract.

    From memory the case law is one of the railway cases about the sale of coal. I can look it up if required.

    This is the correct answer.

    The judge will simply ask "Why did you pay them for 6 months AND use the service if you didn't take out the contract."

    Bear in mind civil courts are "on the balance of probabilities" not "beyond reasonable doubt."

    EDIT: I doubt you'd even win with the rules for a criminal court to be honest, not with 6 months payment and usage unless you could prove fraud.
  • Ladyhawk
    Ladyhawk Posts: 2,064 Forumite
    Yep Vomityspice is quite correct. If you have performed as if you have accepted the contract (ie you have used the service) you will be deemed to have accepted it.
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