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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 152. The proverb today is let the buyer

  • beware. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. The proverb goes all the way

  • back to Roman times. In Latin the term is caveat emptor. So that's where it

  • really comes from. It comes from when Latin was the main language in you know,

  • in Europe. So it goes all the way back to the Roman Empire. Even today this phrase

  • is still used in law. Okay. The word caveat has the meaning of a warning to

  • the limits of an agreement. Okay. And Emptor referred to you know, the the buyer or

  • the person who's doing the buying, who buys something. All right. Let's continue. It

  • basically means that it is up to the buyer to be responsible for checking out

  • whether something is worthy, of worthy quality or worthy to buy or suitable for

  • you. It basically lets you know that a seller is not obligated to volunteer any

  • negative information about the item he or she is selling. Okay. This places the

  • responsibility on the buyer to do proper research and ask proper questions. Okay.

  • The seller is still not supposed to lie or do false advertising. So he can't do

  • that. However if the buyer does not properly check the item, the seller is

  • not at fault. So if you take it home later and there's still a problem with

  • it well then maybe you might be out of luck. Okay. So let's look at a couple of

  • examples here. Number one. Let the buyer beware. One should never buy property

  • sight unseen. Remember, I did an adverb phrase about that a while ago. If you buy

  • property without actually physically seeing it that is site unseen.

  • So if you do that you're kind of setting yourself up. That you know could

  • turn out badly. You know. So be careful of that one. Don't do that one. Or number two

  • here. The principle of caveat emptor or let the buyer beware

  • usually applies with the purchase of garage sale items or you know, when you

  • buy from flea markets or someplace that's like secondhand. Now regular

  • stores of course they may have their own policies and then whatever they're

  • listed policies you would go by that. But if they don't have any listed

  • policies. You know usually this would apply. Okay. Anyway I hope you got it. I

  • hope it was informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 152. The proverb today is let the buyer

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英語導師Nick P 箴言(152) 讓買家當心。 (English Tutor Nick P Proverbs (152) Let the Buyer Beware)

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