Legal Memo
Issue
The Danielle and the box master company case where the supplier, the box master is challenging the buyer, Danielle for not paying for the services offered by the supplier. The matter arises when the box master is accused of not delivering the required items as requested by Danielle on 10th September. Danielle sent the order of 40,000 Ballotin boxes in participation of the upcoming Christmas season where the sales of the chocolate packaged by the boxes will be high. The decision of Danielle opting to conduct business with the box master company was due to the previous experience she had with the company where the fulfilled its part of the deal. The trust created by the box master was spoiled when the company delivered the wrong quality of the requested boxes. This was a loss to Danielle because the retail store had to pay for the accrued expenses of shipping the boxes which include insurance costs. The ordered goods were supposed to be to be delivered to the stores from the warehouses of Danielle on installments on the following days, October 28, November 15, November 28 and December 15.The delivery process of the goods to be the retail stores were underway. Unfortunately, the box master company delivered the wrong set of goods as ordered by Danielle to the warehouse. The shipment consumed a lot of space in the Danielle’s warehouse which was disadvantageous to Danielle because the storing of the boxes was expensive. This was because the storing of the goods consumed a lot of resources while the boxes were not useful to Danielle. Continue reading