Walk It Through: The Salesman At The Door
Midnight of the third business day, the form in duplicate, and the Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
A salesperson comes to the house and sells an expensive water filter system, and the buyer signs at the kitchen table.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One sale at a kitchen table. Real property sales, the exclusions from the chapter, and how a jury decides knowing conduct are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Deceptive Trade Practices ActThe act that declares false, misleading or deceptive acts in trade or commerce unlawful, and lets a consumer who relied on a listed practice recover economic damages, with more where the conduct was knowing or intentional.
- Right to cancelA buyer's right, where a seller personally solicits a sale away from its place of business for goods or services over $25, to cancel no later than midnight of the third business day after signing.