I do not know if it holds any legal weight or not, but I suspect that you continuing to keep your membership active is considered acceptance of their revised policies.Keith B wrote:It was said this is not in their policy when you sign the membership agreement. So, I would have never agreed to something like that and not carry. And, until they send me something that I must sign and send back stating I agree to it, then i don't take their updates. I look at is as being 'Grandfathered' under my old agreement.3dfxMM wrote:This isn't about the legality. It is about their policy which the member agreed to in writing. I guess not many here are concerned about keeping their word unless they can get into legal trouble for not doing so.
A good example is when I bought my house, we were told the HOA dues were X-amount and I signed the agreement for that. About a month later we received a letter from the HOA management company telling us the dues were 3.5 times what we had agreed to. I contacted the company and stated I would be paying the amount I agreed to and that they could raise the amounts by the percentage annually per the agreement I signed, as their legal representative (the neighborhood sales agent) was the one that put the numbers down. They threatened me with a lawsuit, and I told them to contact their lawyer and have him call me. Within about 20 minutes they called back in a really nice tone wanting to know 'what we could work out' and I told them they would have to stick to the agreement or buy my house back. Needless to say, we are Grandfathered under our agreement until such time as the house is sold.
I do not see as much of a parallel as you do regarding the house analogy. You entered into a legal agreement for a specific amount. That agreement also has provisions for how that amount can be changed. They were trying to make a change that did not meet those provisions.