If I want to stop a certain group of people, shall we say people at a specific company from buying one of my products - am I able to state this on my website E.G. "Employers of <Company> cannot purchase this product. By doing so you will be violating <this law> and will be subject to prosecution." It's a weird one I know - probably why I can't find any information while searching for my answer. Pete
Yes, you could actually do that if you want to. You have the full rights to accept or reject a sale. Any sale must come with a willing buyer and willing seller and if one party is not willing, the sale cannot go through. To protect yourself, you can add that disclaimer. There are businesses which do not deal with certain countries and they have that in their legal notes, you can probably follow something like that.
If for example if the order does come through, do a quick refund and send an email to inform them about the refund and that you cannot deal with them. Of course, you probably need to word it nicely. In the past when I allowed Paypal payment on my website, I explicitly mentioned on my hosted order page that I will not deal with any unverified Paypal account holders. Of course, a few managed to ignore the big red prints and I refunded them their money. So far I have no complains about that. For the proper terminology, look at those contest forms by retailers, some would include disclaimers to disallow their employees from joining the contest. I guess you could use those wordings and modify it to your needs.
You certainly do have the right to refuse sales to anyone. Here are some questions that I would have about this that I don't have the answer to but would find out if I were you. 1) Does it have to be in the site's policy statement if it is in fact a policy to not deal with a specific company, or can this just be held in the owner's head? 2) That question seems strange when you specifically asked if you could add this to the policy statement of your site, and this question is moot if you must include it in the policy statement. However, is it possible that by placing the statement "We don't sell to xxx, Inc." into your site policy would in fact do the opposite of your intention? What I mean is this: would a person from that company read that in the policy and then fill out the form as an indiviual and not a representative of that company in order to be able to purchase it. Are you, in fact, just warning them so they know they need to either be less than completely honest or be dishonest all together to circumvent your rule? Just a couple thoughts. Link: When do you have the right to refuse?