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by tptacek 4596 days ago
To add to this: I would guess that the majority of our contracts are boilerplate, and executing them involves no additional legal expense.
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Side note from when I was in the printing industry and handled forms and contracts..

You stand a better chance of getting something agreed to (in some contracts) if you are using a pre-printed form with fill in the blanks or a form that appears to be a "standard" form. (Like a lease etc.)

A "standard" form is more likely (once again by certain parties) to just get signed and not questioned because it appears to be "the way things are done". Presenting someone with a 10 page microsoft word document screams "shit I'd better read this".

Car dealers do this as well. They have forms where the have pre-printed in the gotcha fees (title transfer etc.) as if to say "hey this is the way it's done and everyone is charged that way".