In May 2019, then US president Donald Trump put Huawei and several other Chinese companies on the “Entity List”, meaning they are unable to do business with any organisation that operates in the US. In the case of Google, this means newer Huawei smartphones are no longer able to ship with Google-owned applications pre-installed. This is no secret and it can be argued that consumers are required to do their own research before making a purchase or agreeing to a contract.
If you want to join a gym, concentrate twice as much on what’s in the contract as on what a salesperson — who is hungry for a commission — tells youThe same thing happens with gym contracts. Zile of Cape Town e-mailed me this week to say: “I signed a gym contract in 2020 not knowing it was a three-year one as the salesperson did not state that.
“I became unemployed in February 2021 and when I tried to cancel they asked me to pay a cancellation fee of R2,000.”“That’s ridiculous,” she said, and she’s right.I will investigate this case as that escalation is not legal — you can’t be made to pay more than double your original debt. But here’s the warning: if you want to join a gym, concentrate twice as much on what’s in the contract as on what a salesperson — who is hungry for a commission — tells you.