General Terms and Conditions of Sales
The conditions set forth herein shall apply to all transactions for the supply of goods and/or services entered into, or to be entered into, between Fusspot Publishing cc, hereinafter referred to as “the Company” and the purchaser being any legal person, firm, partnership, close corporation or company, hereinafter referred to as “the Buyer”:
1. Orders
After acceptances, may not be cancelled, in whole, or in part, or varied in any manner whatsoever, unless confirmed in writing by the Company.
2. Prices
Quoted prices are inclusive of VAT, unless otherwise stated.
3. Payment
3.1 Shall be in South African Currency, without deduction or set-off.
3.2 Shall be in full, in the form of cash, Credit Card, or Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT), cash with order or against invoice.
3.3 The Buyer agrees and undertakes to notify the Company immediately of any material factor which could or might have a bearing on the credit facilities extended to the Buyer by the Company, and furthermore undertakes to notify the Company immediately of any material change of or concerning the Buyer, including any change of ownership, shareholding, status, name and address.
4. Delivery
4.1 Any time or date specified for delivery by the Company or the Buyer, in respect of any sale, shall be approximation and guide only.
4.2 If the Company is unable to effect delivery of any part of the goods on the date or time stipulated by it or the Buyer, the Buyer shall be obliged to take delivery as and when the Company can reasonably effect such delivery.
4.3 The Company endeavours to effect delivery on any date specified by it or agreed upon by it, but does not give any warranties of whatsoever nature or kind and it shall not be held responsible for any damages of whatsoever nature, or loss of profit, or any consequential or indirect damages which the Buyer may suffer as a result of such later delivery.
4.4 The Company is entitled to charge storage costs where the Buyer requests the Company to withhold or postpone deliver, and the Company agrees thereto, and the Buyer undertakes to pay any and all storage costs related to goods not taken, at the prevailing storage rates charges by the Company.
4.5 The risk in and to the goods purchased shall pass to the Buyer upon delivery. Such delivery will be deemed to have been effected upon tender of the goods for acceptance by the Buyer within normal business hours, at the Buyers place of business or such other place nominated by the Buyer, or the Company’s place of business, if the Buyer elects to collect the goods.
4.6 Notwithstanding anything previously contained herein, no carrier, as agent of the Company, shall be obliged to enter the premises of the Buyer to enable offloading to be effected. However, if such vehicle should enter the Buyer’s premises, it shall be deemed to do so at the Buyer’s specific instance and request, and in that event the Company and/or its servants and/or agents shall accept no liability for damage or loss occasioned to the Buyer or any third party, arising in any way from such entry or for that matter, exiting from the Buyer’s premises, or from the offloading thereof, or from any negligent act or omission of the Company of its agent carrier during the course of entering, exiting or offloading. Further, the Buyer hereby indemnifies and holds the Company harmless against liability for any such damage or loss.
4.7 The Buyer agrees that its signature of its employees or any person purporting to represent it on the official delivery note or waybill of the Company, be sufficient proof of delivery of the goods from time to time.
5. Reservation of Ownership and Appropriation of Payments
5.1 Notwithstanding anything herein before or elsewhere contained, ownership of the goods shall, at all times, remain vested in the Company, until the Buyer has made full payment of the purchase price. No latitude or extension of time given to the buyer shall in any way vitiate or novate the Company’s rights hereunder. In the event of any default on the part of the Buyer, the Company shall, without prejudice to any other rights it may have, and without notice, be entitled, on demand, to obtain return of the goods, in so far as payment for the goods has not been made in full. The Buyer also consents to a Court Order against it for the attachment and removal of such goods by the Sheriff of the relevant Court.
5.2 The Company is not obliged to accept returned goods where the Buyer has made an error in its order, and the Buyer remains fully liable for the full price of the goods so ordered.
6. Limitation of Company’s Liability
6.1 The Company does not give any warranty against defects in the goods supplied, be they patent or latent. The Company does not give any warranties or guarantees of any other nature or make any representations whatsoever in respect of the goods, or of its fitness for any particular purpose, whether or not that particular purpose is, or could be, deemed to be known to the Company, other than any warranty or guarantee that may have been expressly given in writing. The Company shall be deemed to be unaware of the particular purpose for which the goods or any product made there from is required.
6.2 Before dealing in any manner with the goods supplied against any order; the Buyer must satisfy itself that the goods are suitable for the purpose for which they are to be used, and are free from any defects of whatsoever nature, against any claim brought against the Company by any Third Party arising out of the unsuitability of the goods for any particular purpose whatsoever.
6.3 The Company shall not be liable under any circumstances whatsoever, for any loss of profit or other special damages, out of any of its obligations under this contract, or any act of negligence and or omission on the part of the Company and/or its employees or for any other reason, whether of the same kind, with the aforegoing, or otherwise howsoever.
6.4 The onus shall be on the Buyer to satisfy itself that the goods supplied are for the purpose for which the goods are to be used, there being no obligation on the Company to guarantee such suitability.
6.5 No agreement, warranty, condition, representation, promise, statement or undertaking, whether made before after a sale, shall be binding on the Company unless contained herein or confirmed officially in writing under the Company’s signature.
7. General
7.1 No variation, amendment or alteration of these Conditions of Sale shall be of ant force or effect unless reduced to writing and signed by a duly authorised representative of the Company and the Buyer.
7.2 Wherever, in these Conditions, provision is made for the amendment or variation thereof between the Buyer and the Company, in writing, the onus shall be on the Buyer to establish that the representative of the Company, in entering into such variation or amendment to the terms hereof, was authorised to do so.
7.3 In the event of the Company, for any reason whatsoever, not being able to supply exact goods advertised, the Company shall offer alternative goods for the Buyers approval. On approval, the Buyer is obliged to accept such goods, and delivery of such goods shall be deemed to be a sale, concluded in terms of these terms and conditions. Or on disapproval of the alternative/s offered, the Company shall cancel the sale and refund the sale payment in full.
Laws of the Republic of South Africa will be applicable.
P.O. Box 50908, Waterfront, 8002, South Africa
Version A – April 15th 2018.