How binding are electronic documents? ?

Question

I signed a document with a medical transcription school and decided it is not giving me the education I believe I need for this career. They are saying that I have to pay $500 to cancel my classes. I did not formally sign anything. I typed my name on an electronic document. Can they legally send this to a collection agency if I don't pay it?

Answer 1

Was the document a contract though? Many online documents are contracts that state "by typing my name here, I acknowlege this as equal to my written signature". If you did that, then it counts.

If you can prove they aren't giving you the education you agreed to in the contract, you can get out of it, but then you'd have to get a lawyer to fight over it, and frankly, it would probably just be easier to give them the $500 than to waste your time and money on a lawsuit.