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Discussion => Philosophy, Economics and Justice => Topic started by: blackfedora on May 30, 2013, 04:03 am
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with the fact that donatee(if thats a word) isn't required to give something back
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Donor is the word you're looking for & it depends on whether or not you actively intended to gain something out of the donation.
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u cud possibly set that up, in places where laws on possesion arnt as harsh as sales and purchase, say not a sale, a donation
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do products in exchange for donations count as purchase with the fact that donatee(if thats a word) isn't required to give something back
That is essentially what any transaction is, whether on a free market or not; so yes, that would count as a purchase.
You walk into a store and offer to donate $5.00 to the store's cash fund in order to receive a product in return. In a legal sense the advertised price of any product is simply an invitation to treat, meaning an invitation to you to pay X amount for the product in question. The advertised price - being an invitation to treat - is therefore open to a counter-invitation to treat for a lower price etc.
Calling the price paid for a product you receive a "donation" does not change the fact that you are engaging in a trade, namely that you have offered the owner of the product an invitation to treat by stating that you will "donate" (read: 'pay') X amount if he/she will give you the product, or the owner of the product has offered you an invitation to treat if you will "donate" (read: 'pay') X amount for it.
The scenario that you mentioned is the underlying principle of any trade on any market.
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