Cancellation of an order

macman

Telling you that the price will go up if you don't order today is the first pressure technique that most sales people are taught. It's never true.

HillStreetBlues

macman said:

Telling you that the price will go up if you don't order today is the first pressure technique that most sales people are taught. It's never true.

At the moment it's truer than normal. (but do get your point)

Manxman_in_exile

First, it's not a distance contract.

Second, regarding whether it's an off-premises contract, does it matter whether the trade show counts as business premises or not?  The contrcat wasn't concluded until the following day during a 'phone call.  In those circumstances the contrcat must have been concluded "immediately after" the meeting at the trade show in order to qualify as an off-premises contrcat.  (See para (c) in the definition below)  Does the following day - after the OP had a chance to sleep on deciding whether to buy or not - count as "immediately after"?

I'd say it doesn't, therefore this is neither an off-premises contrcat nor a distance contract.

Definition of an off-premises contract, none of which I'd say apply here:

“off-premises contract” means a contract between a trader and a consumer which is any of these—

(a) a contract concluded in the simultaneous physical presence of the trader and the consumer, in a place which is not the business premises of the trader;

(b) a contract for which an offer was made by the consumer in the simultaneous physical presence of the trader and the consumer, in a place which is not the business premises of the trader;

(c) a contract concluded on the business premises of the trader or through any means of distance communication immediately after the consumer was personally and individually addressed in a place which is not the business premises of the trader in the simultaneous physical presence of the trader and the consumer;

(d) a contract concluded during an excursion organised by the trader with the aim or effect of promoting and selling goods or services to the consumer;

The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 (legislation.gov.uk)