Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 63.14 - Retail Installment Sales of Goods and Services.
63.14.154 - Cancellation of transaction by buyer—Procedure.

RCW 63.14.154
Cancellation of transaction by buyer—Procedure.

(1) In addition to any other rights he or she may have, the buyer shall have the right to cancel a retail installment transaction for other than the seller's breach by sending notice of such cancellation to the seller at his or her place of business as set forth in the contract or charge agreement by certified mail, return receipt requested, which shall be posted not later than midnight of the third day (excluding Sundays and holidays) following the date the buyer signs the contract or charge agreement:
(a) If the retail installment transaction was entered into by the buyer and solicited in person or by a commercial telephone solicitation as defined by chapter 20, Laws of 1989 by the seller or his or her representative at a place other than the seller's address, which may be his or her main or branch office, shown on the contract; and
(b) If the buyer returns goods received or makes them available to the seller as provided in subsection (2)(b) of this section.
(2) In the event of cancellation pursuant to this section:
(a) The seller shall, without request, refund to the buyer within ten days after such cancellation all deposits, including any down payment, made under the contract or charge agreement and shall return all goods traded in to the seller on account or in contemplation of the contract less any reasonable costs actually incurred in making ready for sale the goods so traded in;
(b) The seller shall be entitled to reclaim and the buyer shall return or make available to the seller at the place of delivery in its original condition any goods received by the buyer under the contract or charge agreement;
(c) The buyer shall incur no additional liability for such cancellation.
(3) This section does not apply to a retail installment transaction for the purchase of a motor vehicle. If a retail installment sale contract is used for the sale of a vehicle by a motor vehicle dealer at a place other than the dealer's address, the dealer must disclose to the purchaser or lessee in writing that there is no right to cancel the contract under RCW 63.14.154.

[ 2021 c 201 § 3; 2012 c 117 § 174. Prior: 1989 c 20 § 18; 1989 c 14 § 8; 1972 ex.s. c 47 § 4; 1967 c 234 § 12.]
NOTES:

Effective date—1989 c 20: See RCW 19.158.901.

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 63 - Personal Property

Chapter 63.14 - Retail Installment Sales of Goods and Services.

63.14.010 - Definitions.

63.14.020 - Retail installment contracts—Number of documents—Promissory notes—Date—Signatures—Completion—Type size.

63.14.030 - Retail installment contracts—Delivery to buyer of copy—Acknowledgment of delivery.

63.14.040 - Retail installment contracts—Contents.

63.14.043 - Retail installment contracts—Purchase of motor vehicle—Secondary products.

63.14.050 - Retail installment contracts—Multiple documents permissible where original applies to purchases from time to time.

63.14.060 - Retail installment contracts—Mail orders based on catalog or other printed solicitation.

63.14.070 - Retail installment contracts—Seller not to obtain buyer's signature when essential blank spaces not filled—Exceptions.

63.14.080 - Retail installment contracts—Prepayment in full of unpaid time balance—Refund of unearned service charge—"Rule of seventy-eighths."

63.14.090 - Retail installment contracts, retail charge agreements, and lender credit card agreements—Delinquency or collection charges—Attorney's fees, court costs—Other provisions not inconsistent with chapter are permissible.

63.14.100 - Receipt for cash payment—Retail installment contracts, statement of payment schedule and total amount unpaid.

63.14.110 - Consolidation of subsequent purchases with previous contract.

63.14.120 - Retail charge agreements and lender credit card agreements—Information to be furnished by seller.

63.14.123 - Restrictions on electronically printed credit and debit card receipts.

63.14.125 - Lender credit card agreements—Security interests prohibited.

63.14.127 - Retail installment contracts—Dog or cat as security interest.

63.14.130 - Retail installment contracts, retail charge agreements, and lender credit card agreements—Service charge agreed to by contract—Other fees and charges prohibited.

63.14.136 - Retail installment transaction—Unconscionable—Judicial action.

63.14.140 - Retail installment contracts, retail charge agreements, and lender credit card agreements—Insurance.

63.14.145 - Retail installment contracts and charge agreements—Sale, transfer, or assignment.

63.14.150 - Retail installment contracts, retail charge agreements, and lender credit card agreements—Agreements by buyer not to assert claim or defense or to submit to suit in another county invalid.

63.14.151 - Retail installment contracts, retail charge agreements, and lender credit card agreements—Compliance with disclosure requirements of federal consumer protection act deemed compliance with chapter 63.14 RCW.

63.14.152 - Declaratory judgment action to establish if service charge is excessive.

63.14.154 - Cancellation of transaction by buyer—Procedure.

63.14.156 - Extension or deferment of payments—Agreement, charges.

63.14.158 - Refinancing agreements—Costs—Contents.

63.14.159 - New payment schedule—When authorized.

63.14.160 - Conduct or agreement of buyer does not waive remedies.

63.14.165 - Financial institution credit card agreement not subject to chapter 63.14 RCW, but subject to chapter 19.52 RCW.

63.14.167 - Lender credit card agreements and financial institution credit card agreements—Credit to account for returned goods or forgiveness of a debit for services—Statement of credit to card issuer—Notice to cardholder.

63.14.170 - Violations—Penalties.

63.14.175 - Violations—Remedies.

63.14.180 - Noncomplying person barred from recovery of service charge, etc.—Remedy of buyer—Extent of recovery.

63.14.190 - Restraint of violations.

63.14.200 - Assurance of discontinuance of unlawful practices.

63.14.210 - Violation of order or injunction—Penalty.

63.14.903 - Application, saving—1981 c 77.

63.14.910 - Saving—1963 c 236.

63.14.920 - Effective date—1963 c 236.

63.14.921 - Effective date—Saving—1967 c 234.

63.14.922 - Effective date—1993 sp.s. c 5.

63.14.924 - Application—1995 c 249.

63.14.925 - Savings—1995 c 249.

63.14.926 - Effective date—1995 c 249.