any business minded people around? if yes ur welcome 2 take a look..........?

In a legal context, the law makes a definite distinction between consumers as private individuals and business consumer, to gain a clearer perspective you should look at Section 12 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act and the Unfair Terms Regulations 1999 (EC), and last but not least the Consumer Credit Act.

These primary sources of law clearly establish a clear distinction between the two types of relationships. in short the law has seen fit to provide a greater level of protection to individual consumers against abuse from business in the pursuit of profit.

This goes against the old contract law principle of Caveat Emptor

translated means Buyer beware by which the law exercised a Liaise Fare attitude towards the bargains or agreements that people enter into as long as they were properly formed

However these protections that differenciate between the two catagories of consumer are void if an individual has pretended to be a 'trade buyer' for any purpose.

Hope this helps

in the first place when a business handles a transaction with another business, the business automatically becomes a customer...

the only way it may affect is in the pricing.

the general belief is businesses have more funds at their disposal than single customers. so it may affect pricing. again it may affect the relationship btwn the two parties cos in business/business r/ships the company's reps may vary but a single individual may be in business with the organization for a while. Eg If Sears orders milk for their staff, it may be the logistics staff who may take a while to have a deep relationship with the milk suppliers. but if Mr Roundbottom does business with the milk supplier, the r/ship could go deeper to the point that the supplier would even know when he does and doesnt want milk...

etc etc.... hope i have made a little bit of sense to you... all the best!

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There is definitely a relationship between business 2 business and business 2 consumer