When signing up for a colocation, in most cases you are required to sign the Colocation Agreement and fax or mail it back to the colocation provider company, right? I was under impression, then they will need to counter-sign it and give you a copy as well. After all, it's only a contract when there are signatures of both sides on it, right?
Well, I'm in the process for changing my colocation providers and the sales person from the new company simply refuses to sign it as well. They say that my signature alone is enough and that the contract is implied to be between me and the company because they used the official company letterhead. I highly doubt they will try to rip me off or anything like that, because it's a big company with good reputation, I just find it extremely odd. So I thought I'd ask here about what should I tell them? And is just my signature alone on the contract indeed enough and perfectly legal for the contract to become binding for both sides?

Realistically you're supposed to have all required signing parties from both sides sign the contract, so usually like a president and a CEO/VP from each side. If they only get you to sign it, technically i don't believe it's valid, then if they need to keep it in play they could sign it, if not, they could just tear it up (because you have no copy with their signatures, whats to say it ever existed). I would really push to get it signed personally, but if you trust them, you might not even need the contract (a little faith). If your sales rep wont sign it, why not ask another sales rep there, or someone higher up, because refusing to do that is very .... odd.

If someone said to me you have to sign this but we don't have to because our letterhead is on it and that is good enough I would start looking else where. If they are not going to sign the contract with you then they are leaving themselfs an "out" and that would set off all kinds of warning alarms.:rolleyes: :rolleyes:


been there been burned

I agree with what has been said above.

Make them sign it, or tell them you're going somewhere else!! :cool:

Well, the problem is, they already have my signature. So I can't just walk away from this deal any more... So is it common practice to have just the client's signature alone on the contract and am I being unreasonable here?

can you tell them that it's your understanding that once you sign it, they will sign it and fax/send back the signed agreement.

BTW, is the company doing this also hang around WHT? Probably you should let people know about this so that others won't be trapped into the same problem. I would really want to know what company it is (you can pm me if you wish) so that I will have an early warning about them.

cheers,
:beer:

I'm not a legal guy but the contract requires both parties to sign in order for it to be a legal contract. If they won't sign I'd walk away. It sounds like your getting off on the wrong foot with these guys.

Walk away...

The company is Hurricane Electric. I don't think they have any representatives on this board, but I'm pretty sure there are people who rent space from them here. Am I the only one in this situation? You can PM me...

Take a look at this site for legal info on contracts:

http://law.freeadvice.com/general_practice/contract_law/