The iPad Market in NYC is Nuts!

[glowrider]

There is no contract. The Parol Evidence Rule requires contracts over $500.00 to be in writing to be enforceable. There were no services rendered so you can't do a quantum meruit.

She was an hour late, that is not outrageous. In any other circumstance you would have patience. The additional offer brought his greed out and he blew her off.

He was such a creep about it I am surprised he didn't ask the "cute little Asian" girl for a pair of her panties. Why was it even relevant what she looked like or that she was Asian? It would be okay to do it to an Asian person because of the "Asian gangs" buying up all the iPads?

What part ofnyour story made you think you would get validation on this forum? You complain how hard it is to get an iPad but sell two instead of enjoying it for yourself. Also, you complain about her struggling, but you sold two iPads that really didn't make you wealthy after you consider the time and cost. Sounds like your are struggling morally and financially yourself.

Contracts over $500 have to be in writing to satisfy the Statute of Frauds - not PER.

Quantum meruit (§90) doesn't require services rendered - it's a theory of detrimental reliance, and if you want to play first year law student, you can say that poor little Asian Annie, student of limited means, relied on OPs word and incurred expenses to get to the agreed upon meeting place or she lost other opportunities in the interim (such as investments, etc) because the OP agreed upon a price and ****ed her over. However, realistically, the best she could expect is to get her travel expenses reimbursed.

PER is an evidentiary rule. It says what oral evidencemay be admitted to help interpret a contract.

Just to clarify that point...

 

[djkinetic]

As Tony Montana used to say: "All you have in this world is your balls and your word. Don't break 'em for nobody."

LOL but sooo true =P