International Business: When a purchase contract is signed between parties in two different countries, how do you choose which country's laws govern the execution of the contract?
You can simplify things a lot by invoking the UN Convention on Contracts for the Sale of International Goods. This provides a common set of practices for international contracts, and is widely recognized by most countries.Also "choice of law" is something separate than "choice of dispute regulation." If the parties agree, you can invoke US commercial law in a Chinese court, or Chinese commercial law in an American court. There are practice reasons not to do this (i.e. how many American judges can read Chinese), but unless it is against public policy, judges will allow the contract writers to invoke foreign law in commercial contracts. It's also possible to have dispute resolution be done via arbitration.One reason for invoking CISG as the operating law is that it's unlikely that a Chinese judge will know about the US UCC, or an American judge will know about the Chinese General Principles of Civil Law, but both should understand CISG.This is one of those questions that it's hard to be abstract about. How you should structure a contract if you are dealing between Country A and Country B, depends a lot on exactly what those countries are. The things that you have worry about if you are dealing with an English-Italian contract are completely different than if you are dealing with a US-PRC one, and a US-PRC contract is written completely differently than a US-HK one.
Can you still upgrade verizon phone when 2 year contract hasn't ended yet?
You have to pay full price. The voyager right now is $409.99 full price, $199.99 with 2-yr contract.
Can you have 2 mobile phone contracts at the same time?
my 02 contract comes to an end in april. I wanted to change to vodaphone anyway as i want the new blackberry! But if i sign up now i'll get a special offer...or do i have to wait til april?
I want a new phone but my other phones contract isn't up?
Yeah, pay full retail price for the phone.
What is the difference between a prepaid cell phone and a regular cell phone?
The phone is exactly the same, it is just provisioned in their system under two different types of accounts. The prepaid phone is slightly less expensive because you end up paying more per minute than you do with a contract phone. The carrier wants you to go prepaid so they can get some more money out of you. The phone on a contract plan is also reduced in price but not as much. This is because they have figured out the average amount a customer spends on a contract and use that figure to decide how much to sell you the hardware for. In actuality the phone you are looking at costs Telus way more than $279 but they offer it at a discount and recoup that money they lost over the course of your contract or prepaid participation.
Why do dog breeders price puppies by gender, color, and markings?
This is a question for all the dog breeders out there of all breeds. I read somewhere once that a reputable breeder can be characterized (amongst a long list of other things) as pricing their puppies the same. Not $300 for males and $400 for females. Or $900 for blue eyes, $500 for black and brown. Everytime I look around at dog breeder websites who seem to have everything that makes them "reputable", such as background checks, vet checks/health guarantees, signed contracts, etc...I still can't think of why gender, coloring, and markings should be included in the price. Isn't a puppy a puppy, despite all their physical appearance? People say it's for the betterment of the breed and so on, but it sounds to me like getting these "rare" traits just equals a gold mine for a breeder who says they make no profit. Who's to say a"high quality, rare color" female is any better than the runt in the corner who is almost a year old already about to be a freebie to whoever will take him?