[UA] Occult Hoaxes (old thread with multiple titles--you all know what I'm talking about)

[Timothy Ferguson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ysidro" <ysidro at bellatlantic.net>

> Alright.
>
> What was the ad, anyway?

I only vaugely recall it.  It was a TV promo by a chain store which included
an offer to trade in something really cheap and useless for money off some
other purchase, I recall.  They tried to limit the purchase in some way
(wrong colour or something...I'm not sure) and a bunch of industrial
quantity purchasers got together and sued.  Can I be more vauge?  No.

> > If you make a public offer, then people -can- just send you stuff and
expect
> > payment.  If you don't make the offer, then no, they can't.
> >
>
> But again, how are multiple products dealt with?  And what constitutes
> a  public offer?

There we reach a degree of specialisation which is well beyond me.

> Again, I wasn't trying to say I was right.  I just couldn't see how "I'm
> looking for X product.  I'm willing to pay Y sum." can be a binding
> agreement.

If you say it over the net, it can be considered as a solictation of offers,
which is safe provided you really desire to buy X.  If you get your wording
wrong, for example by specifiying whose X you'll buy "I will buy the first
X... "I will buy any X bought to me by a rabbi." then it cruises past
solicitation and becomes an offer, as I understand it.


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