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I keep being told to use e-signature platforms, but they burned me on a $4,200 contract dispute
Paid $150 for a fancy e-signature service last quarter, but when the other party claimed they never clicked final, the audit trail came back incomplete. The judge made us redo the whole agreement on paper, and I lost two weeks of leverage. Has anyone else had e-signatures fail in court?
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emma5224d ago
Our buddy lost his case over a similar issue last year, and the judge tore the digital signature company apart for not timestamping the IP location. The court basically said if you can't verify both parties were in the same country when they clicked, it's almost useless as evidence. Paper still wins in court because nobody questions whether a pen actually worked that day.
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gavinperez4d ago
But what about cases where both parties are clearly in the same state and the timestamp shows they signed within minutes of each other? Seems like the judge in your buddy's case was really hung up on that country verification part, which feels more about jurisdiction than the signature being fake. Did the company even try to argue that IP geolocation is notoriously unreliable, like how I can spoof my location to be in London right now just by flipping a VPN switch? That's the part I don't get - why don't these digital signature apps build in a simple two-factor check, like texting a code to the phone number on file, instead of relying on IP addresses that barely work anyway?
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