While she simply wanted to have the locks on her shutters changed, a 73-year-old retiree who could not read found herself with a contract to change all of her windows as well as a loan of 16,000 euros. Thanks to the intervention of an association, the septuagenarian was finally able to obtain the cancellation of this contract.
A retirement paid the price of an unscrupulous commercial on March 11 in Romans-sur-Isre (Drme). Indeed, this 73-year-old woman who cannot read found herself with a contract to change all of her windows as well as a loan of 16000 euros over 13 years when she was simply thinking of changing the small locks on her shutters, report our colleagues from France Blue.
Originally, the retiree thought she had made an appointment with a technician when she saw a saleswoman come to her house. The latter then immediately proposed to him to change all his windows. I said no not right away, but she insisted, explained the septuagnar. She then found herself signing a document whose content she did not know, on a tablet. Document of which she never received the duplicate.
It’s not a special case
The pensioner then decided to warn his daughter, who quickly realized that her mother had taken out a contract to change all of her windows and a loan of 16,000 euros. I called the salesperson. But she did not want to cancel the contract, the girl told.
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Fortunately, the association she works for has decided to take matters into their own hands. Finally, after multiple reminders, the company agreed tocancel the contract. This is not a special case. The elderly are ready-made targets, they are often vulnerable, so beware, regretted Rmi Magaud, the association’s president.
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