Marshall Peterson has put my company in a very tight spot legally and me in a tight sport spiritually. I seem to run my company on fair values and integrity. Allowing Marshall become a regular buyer of my grapes was a lucrative business decision as his business began the expansive popularity of Muscadine grapes. With that being said, I will not be continuing business with Marshall Peterson. Not only has he affiliated my business with unethical behavior, he has deceived my son in order to manipulate our business relationship. As a Christian, I would like my company to be dealt in the most ethical and moral of ways.
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Marshall can respond that I have invalidated our promissory estoppel. The unwritten promise we made to each other in this business venture was that I would stock his shelves with Muscadine grapes and he would pay for those grapes. He knew there would be a growth in the popularity of the grapes and instead of allowing both of us to gain in the popularity, he made a contract to keep my business from profiting. Orit Gan evaluates the elements needed to employ the doctrine of promissory estoppel. “There has to be a clear, definite, and unambiguous promise… the promisor must have had reason to expect reliance on the promise… the promise must have induced such reliance and a consequent detrimental change of position… injustice can be avoided only by enforcement of the promise.” (Gan, 2015). Firstly, there was an unambiguous promise for Marshall to use as the promissory estoppel. We had an agreement that I would supply the grapes and he would pay for them. But in that promise he did not fulfill his end to the best of his ability. He did not turn in the payments on time as the agreement stated and I did not charge him any late fees or interest. Marshall broke this “promise” before the company in Texas approached me. Secondly, Marshall should expect me to fulfill our promise because it is the ethical thing to do so. Numbers 30:2 tell us “If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.” (Bibles, 2007). As a Christian, it is my duty to keep my word and my promises but it is also my duty to affiliate myself with the most ethical of business decisions. Thirdly, the way the promise was enacted should have allowed Marshall to behave in a business-like manner but instead he was not forthcoming and did not follow the underlying customs between
I will not be continuing a business relationship with Marshall because of the fact that he used my son to manipulate our implied …show more content…
Marshall can respond that I have invalidated our promissory estoppel. The unwritten promise we made to each other in this business venture was that I would stock his shelves with Muscadine grapes and he would pay for those grapes. He knew there would be a growth in the popularity of the grapes and instead of allowing both of us to gain in the popularity, he made a contract to keep my business from profiting. Orit Gan evaluates the elements needed to employ the doctrine of promissory estoppel. “There has to be a clear, definite, and unambiguous promise… the promisor must have had reason to expect reliance on the promise… the promise must have induced such reliance and a consequent detrimental change of position… injustice can be avoided only by enforcement of the promise.” (Gan, 2015). Firstly, there was an unambiguous promise for Marshall to use as the promissory estoppel. We had an agreement that I would supply the grapes and he would pay for them. But in that promise he did not fulfill his end to the best of his ability. He did not turn in the payments on time as the agreement stated and I did not charge him any late fees or interest. Marshall broke this “promise” before the company in Texas approached me. Secondly, Marshall should expect me to fulfill our promise because it is the ethical thing to do so. Numbers 30:2 tell us “If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.” (Bibles, 2007). As a Christian, it is my duty to keep my word and my promises but it is also my duty to affiliate myself with the most ethical of business decisions. Thirdly, the way the promise was enacted should have allowed Marshall to behave in a business-like manner but instead he was not forthcoming and did not follow the underlying customs between