... the contract on certain terms.2 The significance can be seen when a person is responding, it shows that they have not accepted an offer, so their actions does not at this point create a binding contract. In this case it is submitted that the type of contract made is an invitation to treat, and not an offer, in Partidge v Crittenden3. It can be put forward in the argument that the addition of the words "bargain" converts what is otherwise seen as an invitation to treat into an offer, binding that the other person has accepted the price, but how the best price would be offered in return, by analogy. This can be specified in the case of Harvela v Royal 4 . The facts were laid down within this case, were very different; this is because the invitation to submit had been addressed to two parties to see who would ...

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