On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 15:51:08 -0800 (PST), DerbyDad03
wrote:

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.

No there would not be a liability on the part of Grainger for selling
a ball bearing. If the company policy requires a business account to
transact business, is it a "demand" or "losing money"?

Sorry I'm not so eloquent. Grainger does require some products to be
sold to "qualified" people that will install the part. It can be as
simple as certain electrical part.