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June 21, 2006
Sale of Goods Act
During the recent kerfuffle over the eggshell-like fragility of Bodum's pricey double-wall glassware (above), the irrepressible Guy King across the pond asked, innocently enough, if we had anything like the U.K.'s Sale of Goods Act.
Say what?
I'd never heard of it so he kindly provided a link.
After reading it and then thinking about it for a zeptosecond or so I realized that the U.S. does indeed have something serving as an equivalent consumer protective measure — though ours is in Latin: "caveat emptor."
As if.
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Trouble with caveat emptor is that it doesn't work so well in big complex societies. The time when you lived in a village and knew that the fishmonger who visited in a van once a week was no good [1] and you didn't buy fish from him are gone. I can't possibly know who's a good seller and who isn't for everything I buy, so some sort of controls are needed.
[1] I mention that example 'cos when Mum was a girl, in the mid 1920s she lived in deepest rural Kent. A fishmonger used to visit on Wednesdays but he wasn't much good. Then, one day a new bloke arrived on a Tuesday with lovely fresh fish. Word ran round the village very quickly and he did very well. The next day the other van turned up and couldn't sell anything at all. When he found out why he lifted the lid on the village well and tipped his entire stock in.
Apparently it stunk for months despite much pumping and scooping out.
Posted by: Skipweasel | Jun 21, 2006 3:43:49 PM
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