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It depends on whether you have a contact that binds you to pay until you cancel. Gyms force such a contact. Most SaaS websites don't. They'll cancel your servic
by heliodor 5y ago
It depends on whether you have a contact that binds you to pay until you cancel. Gyms force such a contact. Most SaaS websites don't. They'll cancel your service if they can't collect and move on with their lives.
Some day, someone will offer contract enforcement as a service that makes it really easy for a SaaS to come after you for payment and collect. Or maybe the friction of the legal system makes it untenable and the legal process has to become easier as a prerequisite.
And to nitpick on vocabulary, it is legal to break a contract. It is illegal to break a law.
- jffry 5y agoMost SaaS services are pre-paid rather than post-paid, so if they cannot bill you, it's easy for them to shut off your service and be out basically no money. My experience is that the actual terms of service don't guarantee that will happen, but rather that it's more cost-effective for the company to block your account than it is to allow a debt to accrue, document that debt, and then attempt to collect on it or sell it to debt collectors for pennies.