Posted by
Pierre Smits on
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Hi Ted,
First of all, in general companies have a document called Terms of Sale and
Delivery and in most cases these documents contain a paragraph stating
which law and court is deemed to be applicable when conflicts regarding the
terms of sale and delivery arise. The companies better make sure that they
don't have terms that are in violation of that law.
Now,regarding cross-border selling, it all has to do with the revenue
gained from cross-border sales and the risk it involves. If the revenue is
marginal the company might decide that it is cheaper not to create to much
fuss when a customer says that some parts aren't applicable according to
domestic or even regional law, and just terminate the contract.
But, when the revenue gained is significant, the company better make sure
to what extend he runs risks.
Af for how Mastercard and VISA are doing this, these companies have such a
customer base in each country to enable them to have a presence in those
countries. Just to ease these risks. In the countries they don't have a
presence the customer base is so small compared to the total that they can
accept those risks.
As for the solution regarding the component, I would envision that a
subscription either has
- the 'automatically terminate' option, or
- the 'automatically extend' option.
You could even think of a configuration per country/region of the
underlying product to determine which option is mandatory.
Regards,
Pierre Smits
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>
> 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
>