Sales Of Goods Act Comparison
This is a personal comparison study between Business Link and Wikipedia’s view on the Sales of Goods Act in the UK. This is just an educational comparison and no legal meaning is meant by this discussion.
From reading over the 2 Sales of Goods acts from the two sources, the first opinion on them both is that Business Link’s act is more positive for the end consumer, it is pointed more towards the options that consumers have when/if anything goes wrong with a sale. It includes additional information about Services that are provided apart from just a physical product. Whereas Wikipedia’s version is more purely process based with not much information regarding services. They put across that they do not believe the Goods Act is as good as they would like, saying: “a new sales of goods act is thought to be overdue”. If a consumer reads this act, it may make them feel that the Act is flawed if it is put across like this.

Carrying on with Wikipedia, who states there is “a minimal amount of minor restrictions” could mean that Consumers and Businesses are in need of a new detailed Act to cover more events that occur within the selling of goods. Wikipedia explains information more about the actual sales process, rather than the actual product. Including details about the ownership of the goods and possession, that the seller must hold the full ownership of a product to be able to sell it, this keeps the consumer free from events when a 3rd party who has security on the same product interferes with the sale or the consumer. This includes the ownership transfer occurring only when the goods have been delivered as advertised, not when any monies have been passed from the …
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