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Originally Posted by bk400
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.
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This analogy is just as bad. Walmart is a retail store open to the public with the very purpose of selling their goods to any and all who come to buy them. This is a vastly different scenario than a private person selling personal property.
You are trying to hard to justify pointless outrage over a seller's rights.