Merchant Status Bait
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- Contracts1
Example wrong choices
14434_crossed_handbells · CONTRACTS · Choice AAs to both formation and consideration, identical cross-offers are functionally equivalent to an offer followed by a responsive acceptance.
Why it's attractive
It erases the uncertainty by pretending there was a clean responsive acceptance.
Why it's wrong
It erases the uncertainty by pretending there was a clean responsive acceptance.
14434_crossed_handbells · CONTRACTS · Choice BBecause Daniel was a merchant seller and Hannah was not a merchant buyer, Daniel is estopped to deny that their writings created a binding contract.
Why it's attractive
It jumps from status labels to estoppel without a formation bridge.
Why it's wrong
It jumps from status labels to estoppel without a formation bridge.
14434_crossed_handbells · CONTRACTS · Choice DA sale-of-goods contract does not require the acceptance to mirror the offer exactly.
Why it's attractive
It solves a mismatch problem; the stem gives matching terms.
Why it's wrong
It solves a mismatch problem; the stem gives matching terms.
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