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Aina has just bought The Baker's Shop and, anxious to please the locals, decides to put an advertisement in the local paper stating that she
Aina has just bought "The Baker's Shop" and, anxious to please the locals, decides to put an advertisement in the local paper stating that she will sell boxes of luxury chocolate pie at a discount price of RM10.00, instead of the recommended retail price of RM16.00. It also states that there are only 40 boxes available.
Aina has recently bought a computer from her son, adaam, to help her with the running of the shop. The advertisement states that anyone wanting the pie should contact Aina in person at the shop or e-mail her at A..a@bakersshop.co.my.
The advertisement appears in the local paper on Saturday.
Erica sees the advertisement at 4.30pm on the Saturday afternoon and immediately sends an Email to Aina ordering six boxes of the pie. The e-mail is received on Aina's machine at 5.09pm on the Saturday. On Saturday evening Aina realises that the discount was too generous as she is making no money on the pie and people are not coming to the shop and buying lots of other groceries as she had hoped. She phones the local paper asking them to put notice in the next day informing people that the discount price is no longer available. The Sunday paper is published at 9am on Sunday morning and it is delivered to Erica at 10.30am.
Viv opens for business at 10.00am on the Sunday. She reads Eric's e-mail at 10.35am, but refuses to sell him the pied. She replies stating that the discount is no longer available.
Advise the legal positions of both Aina and Eric.
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