Renogotiating a contract after first couple of weeks.

[Bunk]

**** me your agent is stupid.

You sound surprised. There's a reason they're agents remember.

[TheFaQQer]

You sound surprised. There's a reason they're agents remember.

Yeah, but hair gel doesn't come cheap.

An agent volunteering to cut their rate when they don't need to doesn't seem believable to me.

[Spacecadet]

Yeah, but hair gel doesn't come cheap.

An agent volunteering to cut their rate when they don't need to doesn't seem believable to me.

Possibly the rate was so low that the agent realised it was unsustainable and they'd have a contractor walking mid contract to something better paid.

[Wanderer]

If you are in negotiation which one is taken as the assumed contract? For example, if the agent sends you one and you amend it, send it back with say a substitution clause in that was missing and then you start which one is in effect? If the agent has recieved the contract and has not mailed you back refusing the addition can that one be the assumed one or is it always the one you are offered by the agent?

My understanding is:

1. If you receive a signed contract from the other party and you start work then you are deemed to have tacitly accepted the contract even if you haven't signed it yourself.
2. You can't amend a contract that the other party has already signed, then sign it yourself and then return it (they have signed the original version, not the amended version).
3. If you received an unsigned contract, you may be able to amend it, sign it and then return it. The other party would then be deemed to have tacitly accepted the contract if they allow you to start work.

I am not a lawyer so I could be completely wrong. Probably the only real answer would be to consult a lawyer or take it to court to have a judge decide.

[TheFaQQer]

My understanding is:

1. If you receive a signed contract from the other party and you start work then you are deemed to have tacitly accepted the contract even if you haven't signed it yourself.
2. You can't amend a contract that the other party has already signed, then sign it yourself and then return it (they have signed the original version, not the amended version).
3. If you received an unsigned contract, you may be able to amend it, sign it and then return it. The other party would then be deemed to have tacitly accepted the contract if they allow you to start work.

I am not a lawyer so I could be completely wrong. Probably the only real answer would be to consult a lawyer or take it to court to have a judge decide.

That's how I interpret it, too, based on some kind of vague recollection of contract law at uni.