com). 1. Betty drove three hours in one-hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. No. A dealership is not required to sell a person a car just because that person had a hard time getting to the dealership. Generally, an ad is not to offer but invitations for offers. Betty might argue that she relied to her the doctrine of detrimental reliance on the ad, the fact that Betty had some hardship
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possible was unavailable, that resulted in alluring the consumer, Betty, to the dealership in order to purchase that vehicle. The switch occurs when Tony, the salesperson of the advertiser, tried everything not to sell her that truck in order to sell that consumer another product or service that usually is a higher price or is more advantageous to the advertiser. This is an ideal case of Bait and Switch. Betty drove three hours in one-hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing
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Bait and Switch John Doe Strayer University Law, Ethics and Corporate Governance LEG 500 Bait and Switch Betty drove three hours in one-hundred degree heat. Does this have any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement? The Federal Trade Commission defines bait advertising as an enticing but insincere offering for a product or service where the advertiser has no intention or desire to sell. Instead, the purpose is to entice
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Summary of Findings The Professor felt ill and decided to go home but during the drive he experienced discomfort and in the succeeding hours experienced severe diarrhea and persistent nausea and vomiting. Eventually the nausea ceased but his stomach was still upset. The following day he called Dr. Martin, his primary health care physician. Betty, the doctor’s nurse assisted him over the phone and after the professor explained his condition she told him that Dr. Martin cannot see to him because
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TIDBITS OF MY LIFE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Ray Jablonski As one grows older and ponders the past one cannot help but wonder what legacy will dwell. Thus, I shall write about the things in my life, big and small that my descendants may wish to know about and perhaps keep in their memory as well. So I shall begin with the earliest history of my life with the ends and odds of the important things I can recall. These tidbits should reveal
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1. Betty drove three hours in one hundred degree heat. Explain if this fact has any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement. By law an advertisement is not a contract however, in most states the printed ad is technically an offer to sell in a specific vehicle at a specific price and if you take them up on the offer, then they have to sell it to you just as they advertised because you accepted the offer and were ready to pay the advertised
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Fight At The Investment Club It started with a fight over Big Macs. The members of the Golden Years Investment Club rarely disagreed with each other about where to put their money. In fact, most times they left the final decision to Lenn Width, the septuagenarian leader of the group, whose 34-year track record with Golden Years had led Business Week to call him "a dazzling role model" for individual investors in a cover story last May. But on this crisp October evening in 1992, one of the
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It was a lot but not as much as I wanted there to be. I gathered them all up and drove to the Salvation Army donation center in Fort Worth to drop off the contributions. They thanked me and I went on my way. I can agree that the drive went well, but it just did not go the way I wanted it to be. The concept was a good idea because
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Dedication Rita Leary, my wife,who provides constant support to my writing effort. Donna Leary Mentzos, my daughter, who assisted with the editing. June M. Leary, my daughter who provided the encouragement, support and editing without which this book would not have been written. As I sit back in my rocking chair, sometimes with a glass of wine, many of the places, people and circumstances of my past go through my mind. I daydream of what was and wonder at what might have been
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Bait and Switch Dawn L. Barnes Dr. Augustine Weekley LEG500 Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance November 27, 2011 1. Does the fact that Betty drove three hours in one-hundred-degree heat have any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement? “The First Amendment grants everyone the right to free speech, but sometimes questions arise about how this right should be interpreted, especially since the advent of the Internet”(www.degreedirectory
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