On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> wrote: > That depends on the legal setup of each country regarding protection of > customers. > > In a country it might be so that subscriptions must automatically end when > the period reaches the thru date and no confirmation has been given, and in > others it can be so that subscriptions automatically extend unless a > cancelation has been received. > > The solution should cater for both. > > > Pierre Smits > > *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* > Services & Solutions for Cloud- > Based Manufacturing, Professional > Services and Retail & Trade > http://www.orrtiz.com > > What should that solution look like?
More importantly, which rule applies when the vendor is in one country and the client is in another and the two countries in question have such different rules? A vendor can reasonably be expected to be aware of extant law in his own country, but it is hardly reasonable to expect him to be aware of extant laws in any or all of the other 195 countries on the planet. And it gets worse, as in Canada, consumer protection rules are generally defined at the provincial level (I have no idea if there are such rules defined at the federal level in Canada also - the feds and provinces occasionally, albeit rarely, work together), and if other countries, such as the US, assign such responsibility to member states, the number of relevant jurisdictions grows considerably. Do you know if the credit card networks (such as VISA and Mastercard) have rules governing this, and, if so, what they are? Cheers Ted
