On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 5:17:55 PM UTC-5, Oren wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 15:57:08 -0600, wrote:

Companies that demand they will only sell to businesses are losing
money. A sale is a sale.

I guess you miss the notion of liability. Go try to buy dynamite,
certain chemicals or electric parts that can only be sold to a
qualified person with a license. They would be silly to sell to the
average non-qualified, non-licensed person.


I think that's a stretch. Besides, in cases like you've mentioned, they aren't necessarily
refusing to sell to a "non-business" as much as they are refusing to sell to a "unlicensed
entity". If you need to be a business to be licensed, then that is an extra layer between the
seller and the buyer. In other words, it still has nothing to do with the buyer being a business
or not, it's all about the license.

In the case of a company like Grainger, there is not a lot of liability associated with selling
an individual a ball bearing or a set of sockets.