Pennsylvania § 2603 Duties of merchant buyer as to rightfully rejected goods

Pennsylvania Statutes

§ 2603 — Duties of merchant buyer as to rightfully rejected goods

Pennsylvania·Title 13 COMMERCIAL CODE·Ch. 26 BREACH, REPUDIATION AND EXCUSE

(a)General rule.--Subject to any security interest in the buyer (section 2711(c)), when the seller has no agent or place of business at the market of rejection a merchant buyer is under a duty after rejection of goods in his possession or control to follow any reasonable instructions received from the seller with respect to the goods and in the absence of such instructions to make reasonable efforts to sell them for the account of the seller if they are perishable or threaten to decline in value speedily. Instructions are not reasonable if on demand indemnity for expenses is not forthcoming.

(b)Reimbursement for expenses and commission.--When the buyer sells goods under subsection (a), he is entitled to reimbursement from the seller or out of the proceeds for reasonable expenses of cari

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(a) General rule.--Subject to any security interest in the buyer (section 2711(c)), when the seller has no agent or place of business at the market of rejection a merchant buyer is under a duty after rejection of goods in his possession or control to follow any reasonable instructions received from the seller with respect to the goods and in the absence of such instructions to make reasonable efforts to sell them for the account of the seller if they are perishable or threaten to decline in value speedily. Instructions are not reasonable if on demand indemnity for expenses is not forthcoming.

(b) Reimbursement for expenses and commission.--When the buyer sells goods under subsection (a), he is entitled to reimbursement from the seller or out of the proceeds for reasonable expenses of caring for and selling them, and if the expenses include no selling commission then to such commission as is usual in the trade or if there is none to a reasonable sum not exceeding 10% on the gross proceeds.

(c) Good faith conduct.--In complying with this section the buyer is held only to good faith and good faith conduct under this section is neither acceptance nor conversion nor the basis of an action for damages.

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