promises promises

khufu ([email protected])
Sat, 03 Oct 1998 02:55:21 -0400

> Bad seller/buyer alert
> 1. Well, if specifically asking me, out of the blue, to buy
> a ticket to the Columbus show *for him* isn't a "deal" then...
> well, I don't even know. Maybe we didn't have a written contract
> but there is a little thing out there called honour and integrity
> which he most obviously trashed, and I have every right to be angry
> 2. In April of 1997 I purchased some U-Toons from her - $60
> worth...She has sent me numerous excuses (floods, lost in the
> mail, etc) as to why my U-Toons never arrived, and now she
> is no longer responding to my e-mails, either.
> Moving on,
> Queen Bee

fyi all you out there, mere words are not necessarily cheap.
oral contracts are legally binding provided they can be performed
within one year and they don't involve real estate or illegal
transactions.

promises are legally binding once one of the parties has
relied on the promise to their detriment; damages can be
claimed for that reliance.

so those of you who think you have no obligation because you
didn't actually sign on the bottom line, your obligation is
more than just a moral one.

being *too busy* to fulfill one's obligations is crap. people
make time for the things they *want* to have time for. stating
the facts of a failed deal is not blackening peoples' names, it's
merely stating the facts, and the facts speak for themselves.
warning others about people who are slack in their obligations
is a public service.

character - what you are when no one else is looking.

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