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No.In fact, other than a “right of recission” clearly contained in the contract, people should never have the opportunity to “opt out” of a(n otherwise valid) contract that they’ve already signed.A “right of recission” is a clause (in some cases mandated by statute for very large consumer purchases) which says that the buyer has a certain time period, usually a few days, to have second thoughts and cancel the contract. Its purpose is to take some of the “oomph” out of high-pressure sales tactics.If the contract is “rescinded” per the clause, the buyer does, of course, have the obligation to return or reimburse to the seller anything of value received by virtue of the contract—it’s not a way to get stuff for free.But other than that, whyever should a person have the unilateral right to cancel a contract? What value would a contract even have then?In fact, one of the first things a law student learns in Contracts class is that a contract which does not bind the parties (or purports to bind one party and leave the other unbound) is not a contract at all—and this expressly includes a “contract” in which one or both of the parties reserve a unilateral right to cancel the contract.Original Question:“Should people always have the opportunity to opt out of a contract they already signed?”

On an air freight agreement:“Marking your package as FRAGILE acknowledges that the merchandise therein has not been packaged in a manner sufficient to protect it against the hazards of air travel, and absolves the carrier of responsibility for any damage which may occur.”

I started my own business when I was 18 years old. When I was 19 I was gonna work in a startup as freelance programmer.At the time I was pricing my services too low, so I gave the client the low price as usual.It was a big project worth thousands of dollars, and I was happy with it.But when I was writing the contract, I thought: “This is a cool project but I don´t want them to ask for a lot of mindless changes later, so I´ll include a crazy high price for any modifications just to prevent this”.So I added a clause to the contract saying that anything not included in the initial specs would be charged at a 10x hourly rate.I was naive. I just wanted to finish the project and move on. It never crossed my mind that the client would be so happy with my work that he´d be willing to pay that much.So I ended up working an extra year with that startup making 10x more money.This made me feel very successful and that became my default hourly rate.This is how a crazy clause in a contract meant to scare the client did the opposite and made my business take off.