Legal Question in Business Law in New York

We want to stop doing bussiness with a dumpster company that continues to raise their rates at a ridiculous pace. We told them to come and pick up their dumpster and they told us we would have to pay an outrageous fee for them to do that, since we are under contract. We had no copy of this contract and so they emailed us one. In the initial term agreement, there is no agreement number or effective date. Does this make this contract void??


Asked on 2/03/11, 9:09 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Haber Law Offices of Michael S. Haber

The lack of an agreement number seems inconsequential. And the lack of an effective date may not be meaningful either, so long as there is a way to measure the dates of performance under the contract.

The better question is whether you (or anyone on your behalf) actually signed or otherwise assented to the terms of the contract.

Of similar importance is whether the purported contract permits the price to be raised seemingly at whim. The price that the customer is paid is, of course, a material term of any contract.

Good luck to you.

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Answered on 2/03/11, 1:33 pm


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