Offer

• Display of goods

  • goods with tickets prices on a shelf or window is not an offer but an invitation for customers to make an offer to buy
  • Fisher v Bell- flick knives
  • Pharmaceutical society of GB v Boots Chemist
• Auctions

  • Call for a bid is invitation to treat
  • Payne v Cave- took his bid away before hammer was hit, therefore contract was not formed
• Adverts

  • invitations to treat, not offers to sell
  • Patridge v Crittenden- wild birds
  • Catril v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co- unilateral offers are offers
• Mere statement of price

  • not an offer
  • Harvey v Price
• Tenders

  • Statement not offer
  • Harvela Investments v Royal Trust Co of Canada