Offers and Obligations

[enlytend]

Here's a slightly different topic -

An employee of Company A approaches Seller B and makes an offer to buy a domain name. The buyer makes this offer as an employee of Company A (i.e. it is their job to acquire domain names for Company A and they are NOT seeking to purchase the name for themself).

All correspondence, including the offer, is made via email using the employee's work e-mail account.

Buyer and Seller reach an agreement, however before the transaction is complete the buyer leaves the employment of Company A.

What obligation (if any) does Company A have to Seller B? Does Seller B have any recourse to get paid for the domains as per the original offer?

Any of the legal minds on this forum care to weigh in on this?

 

[Ringtonebro]

Does it really matter.. I've had situations where I won a domain for low xx,xxx at afternic only to find out the domain was just sold on sedo for 2.5 times the amount. Stuff like that really suck but there is not much you can do about it in the end, unless it was a once in a lifetime deal and you have some money to spent on legal fees.