Quote Originally Posted by sathor View Post
oh oh oh! i know! I would send it in, like normal, but put a line through the part where it says slacks, and then to be safe the part e, which seems ambiguous, if they sign that then, they can't complain. (I learned that from a former boss, who was an attorney. might not work, but always worth a shot.)
As part of my MBA, I took a very educational "business law" course that clarified such phenomena quite well.

In order for any contract to be considered valid, several elements MUST be in place, two of which are: an OFFER, and ACCEPTANCE of that offer. (There are other elements, such as: consideration, free consent, capacity to contract, enforceability, etc, but those would only obfuscate the issue here).

If you were to cross out the section that didn't appeal to you, sign and submit the completed contract, that would constitute a COUNTER-OFFER -- not acceptance. In order to be legal and enforceable, you would still need to have evidence that your counter-offer had been accepted first.

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