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Originally Posted by timn1
Also, the scenario of preventing the blind kid diving into the empty pool seems like a comically bad analogy for the selling of a sports card....
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I think the principle is the same, but I can use the good lawyer's own example if it isn't as comically bad an analogy.
Imagine going to Walmart to buy eggs. You put a carton of eggs in your shopping cart and bring it to the register to check out. When you get to the register, the store manager decides not to accept your offer to purchase the eggs at the price stamped on the price tag. Instead, he takes the eggs from your cart and gives it to the lady behind you in line. And he accepts her offer to purchase instead.
Not sure how that would play out in your community, but I know how it would play out in mine.
The law doesn't impose a duty on Walmart to accept offers to purchase from the first customer who shows up with an offer at the stated price.
But Walmart does it anyway.