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StuartKing

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I have a small internet business in which I am acting as an on-line broker for a variety of vendors selling a wide range of products. I build and maintain the shopping cart system and they sell their product on my web site.
I collect the order information and take a commission off the top and then forward the remaining money and order information to the vendor who fills the order.

I am in the process of putting together my first contract with my first vendor I need contract advice. I want to make sure I am protected from liability in the event that one of my vendors should fail to ship and item or ships product that is defective.
 


ALawyer

Senior Member
You need a contract.

Look at many other sites and see what they use.

But even if you use the tightest possible contract, and get the vendor in your mall to indemnify you fully, and the vendor signs it blood before a notary, priest, minister, rabbi, iman and zen leader, if the product sold injures someone, and a court finds you to be the vendor or a joint venturer with the vendor, and even though the vendor is primarily liable if he is rendered insolvent, you will be held liable and have no one else to collect from.

And there are lots of liabilities you can not eliminate by contract with the buyer. You also need insurance.
 

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