> Telling a salesman you'd like to buy a product doesn't contractually oblige you to buy, submitting an order for a product does. When the order is binding, ha

> Telling a salesman you'd like to buy a product doesn't contractually oblige you to buy, submitting an order for a product does. When the order is binding, has much to do with how the ToS of the site/store is written. Some sites take the attitude that an order is not binding (on the buyer or seller) until payment is made. Some sites take the opposite view. In some cases it gets rather squirrelly when you have a seller with a limited quantity of the item (like 1 or 2) and a buyer who wants to use a very slow payment method (check, MO, etc). What do you do if the buyer wants the last one, in a hot market, but also wants you to wait week +/- for payment ?