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Do not sign a contract with Snowflake

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Re: Do not sign a contract with Snowflake

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If Customer purchases additional capacity ... unconsumed Capacity will roll over ... Otherwise, purchased Capacity expires What is vague about that?

Your right it's not vague. It's pretty clear. Add the fact that the contract was just 1 page, it seems they signed without reading. Basing their decision only on the words of the smooth talking sales rep. They would have had my sympathy if the clause was buried within many pages of legalese. But 1 page? Come on.

Sorry I wasn't clear, I was saying it's vague what there would be a new purchase min of $1k (now according to the rep it is their internal policy is whatever level you were contracted at is the new min.). Since capacity for Snowflake is sold in very small tranches(we at one time got a bill for less than a dollar for the month during our on-demand time), I assumed the new contract could be issued with very small, essentially token amounts, this point is where the rep more or less waved his hands on and I agree I should have not trusted his portrayal. Honestly he may be working with the constrains of changing policies imposed on him too, so I def take responsibility here. Just as I mentioned, the post is for people who may be looking at similar clauses and coming to the wrong assumption that I did to not repeat the same mistake.

Re: Do not sign a contract with Snowflake

#42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's disingenuous for the company to try to get you into a contract by promising that your "credits" can be rolled over without being up-front about the conditions. Obviously OP made a mistake here, and it seems that they're admitting that, but if what they said was true, this company was being deceptive about the contract.

Do rollovers of credits, minutes, etc typically persist after the subscription has ended? If I cancel my AT&T account I can't keep using my saved up rollover minutes.

I'm not sure this is a good comparison. If you cancel your AT&T account, the assumption here is that you're getting rid of your number. At that point, you are not retaining service.

Based on their website[1], you can have an account with pay as you go. There is no reason to assume that if I change to a month to month agreement, I would have to create a new account. Why shouldn't the rollover minutes stay with the account? OP paid for it already.

To go back to the AT&T analogy, if they offered a prepaid yearly contract with rollover minutes, and I lose those minutes because I switched to month to month, I would be pretty angry.

[1] https://www.snowflake.com/pricing/

Re: Do not sign a contract with Snowflake

#43

Sounds like a typical prepaid gift card (with expiration), nothing more. It's not uncommon for a company to say, if you prepay - we'll give you a discount. But we need the usage to expire at some point (for GAAP accounting reasons) Or am I missing something here.

Gift cards with expiration dates are illegal in some states.
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