The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 9A V.S.A. § 2-603)
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§ 2—603. Merchant buyer’s duties as to rightfully rejected goods
(1) Subject to any security interest in the buyer (§ 2—711(3)), when the seller has no agent or place of business at the market of rejection a merchant buyer is under a duty after rejection of goods in his or her possession or control to follow any reasonable instructions received from the seller with respect to the goods and in the absence of such instructions to make reasonable efforts to sell them for the seller’s account if they are perishable or threaten to decline in value speedily. Instructions are not reasonable if on demand indemnity for expenses is not forthcoming.
(2) When the buyer sells goods under subsection (1) of this section, he or she is entitled
to reimbursement from the seller or out of the proceeds for reasonable expenses of
caring for and selling them, and if the expenses include no selling commission then
to such commission as is usual in the trade or if there is none to a reasonable sum
not exceeding ten percent on the gross proceeds.
(3) In complying with this section the buyer is held only to good faith and good faith
conduct hereunder is neither acceptance nor conversion nor the basis of an action
for damages.