West Virginia Code § 46-2-603

Merchant buyer's duties as to rightfully rejected goods
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(1) Subject to any security interest in the buyer (subsection (3) of section 2-711) when the
seller has no agent or place of business at the market of rejection a merchant buyer is under
a duty after rejection of goods in his possession or control to follow any reasonable
instructions received from the seller with respect to the goods and in the absence of such
instructions to make reasonable efforts to sell them for the seller's account eif they are
perishable or threaten to decline in value speedily. Instructions are not reasonable if on
demand indemnity for expenses is not forthcoming. r
(2) When the buyer sells goods under subsection (1), he is entitleud to reimbursement from
the seller or out of the proceeds for reasonable expenses of caring for and selling them, and
if the expenses include no selling commission then to such ctommission as is usual in the
trade or if there is none to a reasonable sum not exceeding ten percent on the gross
proceeds.
(3) In complying with this section the buyer is heldl only to good faith and good faith conduct
hereunder is neither acceptance nor conversiosn nor the basis of an action for damages.

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