Well my response to that is that you need to develop more experience in magick before attempting things such as a pact. They may always fail for you personally, sure…but they don’t always fail for the rest of us. According to yourself not even a year ago yet, you have very little experience with magick:
Frankly, you don’t have nearly enough experience in magick to make declarations such as “pacts always fail.” I’m sorry but there’s no sugarcoating that. They sometimes fail, sure…but always? No lol. If you put in the time and the work, you’ll find that pacts are generally quite beneficial to a practitioners development. I’ve been doing this for years now, it rarely ends badly unless you break the pact…and even then its often possible to make amends.