Termination trap: This is how consumers of the rip -off escape through termination experts!

Termination trap: This is how consumers of the rip -off escape through termination experts!

An alarming situation for many consumers: If you try to terminate your internet or electricity contracts, you end up on the dubious website "Termination Experts". This platform promises to take over the termination, but reality looks different. Users: Inside enter your data and click on "Cance off now", but often no termination is carried out and instead, payment requests are followed. According to a warning from the Styria Chamber of Labor, those affected must pay horrendous 32 euros for the allegedly sent. Those who do not pay are showered with reminders that can drive the total costs up to 70 euros. Johannes Unterthurner, an expert in the Chamber of Labor, clarifies: "With 'Termination Experts' there is no legal contract. href = "https://www.ots.at/presseaus-sung/ots_20250307_ots0026/AK- consumer protection-statt-kuendigung-ak-warnt-vor-termination-Experts"> OTS reported.

What does the uncertainty cost?

The language regulation surrounding the question of prices illustrates an interesting discrepancy. Many people often use “what costs” in everyday use to ask for prices. This has been consolidated since the 1996 spelling reform, which has disappeared from modern orthography use. However, these subtleties play a subordinate role in everyday life. German language uses allow both variants, https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/was-kostet-vs-wie-kostet-vs-wie- kostetet and summarizes that "how much" asks for an amount, while "what" costs "more general queries. This often leads to misunderstandings and in a situation where consumers have already been damaged, such linguistic subtleties can only increase frustration.

The warning of "Termination Experts" is an urgent example of how important it is to treat contracts and their termination with caution. For consumers who fall into the trap of such services, this can not only be financially painful, but also be psychologically a burden.

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