Rejecting a contract after checks

[TheFaQQer]

Getting offy because you decline an offer is nuts.

Tescos 'offer' to sell me cornflakes every time I go in there by having them on their shelves. They dont chase me out of the store and ban me because I decline to take them up on it, do they?

Your analogy falls down in two areas.

1) Tesco's aren't offering to sell you cornflakes - they are inviting you to make them an offer to buy the cornflakes, which they are then at liberty to accept or reject. (See Fisher v Bell and/or Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists)

2) If you had spent considerable time and money getting everything together and getting to the checkout, and then Tesco said "we're not selling to you because the bloke behind you has more in his trolley and we'll make more money that way", would you be continuing to shop at Tesco or would you shop elsewhere?

[Eirikur]

2) If you had spent considerable time and money getting everything together and getting to the checkout, and then Tesco said "we're not selling to you because the bloke behind you has more in his trolley and we'll make more money that way", would you be continuing to shop at Tesco or would you shop elsewhere?

Funny enough in my current gig this is exactly what happened in a B2B situation, with a party we selected to win a £2M bid after the RFP process. They pulled out for exactly that reason

[Tightfit]

Getting offy because you decline an offer is nuts.

Tescos 'offer' to sell me cornflakes every time I go in there by having them on their shelves. They dont chase me out of the store and ban me because I decline to take them up on it, do they?

Ah - so thats why Tesco's Share price dropped so dramatically this year then.

[BHicks]

I'm potentially looking at a similar situation, but my approach is that any acceptance of an offer is stated (in writing) as being subject to contract.

Put simply, until both parties have signed on the line there is no legal obligation. The agency emails etc repeatedly proclaim some very similar boilerplate along those lines.

[northernladuk]

Getting offy because you decline an offer is nuts.

Tescos 'offer' to sell me cornflakes every time I go in there by having them on their shelves. They dont chase me out of the store and ban me because I decline to take them up on it, do they?

And you wouldn't get one on in a reverse situation? You'd have a client/agent hating post ready before you finished reading the rejection

And they Tesco example has to be the worst one I've ever seen. Your grasp on business is just ridiculous.

[cherhill]

Have some self-respect. If the contract is good enough to accept via email it should be good enough to be honoured regardless of what else comes up. Otherwise OP should have not accepted it in the first place.

What utter tosh. I have been contracting for years and have been screwed over by both agents and clients during that time. So all this honour your contract etc is all very naive.

Do what is best for number 1.