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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66214</law_id><section_number>8.2-706</section_number><catch_line>Seller&amp;#8217;s resale including contract for resale</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.2-703</reference><reference>8.2-707</reference><reference>8.2-711</reference><reference>8.2-718</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.2">Commercial Code - Sales</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="7">Remedies</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Under the conditions stated in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Seller's remedies in general" href="/8.2-703/">8.2-703</a> on seller&#x2019;s remedies, the seller may resell the goods concerned or the undelivered balance thereof. Where the resale is made in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner the seller may recover the difference between the resale price and the <span class="dictionary">contract</span> price together with any incidental <span class="dictionary">damages</span> allowed under the provisions of this title (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Seller's incidental damages" href="/8.2-710/">8.2-710</a>), but less expenses saved in consequence of the buyer&#x2019;s breach. <a id="paragraph-240495" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-706/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) or unless otherwise agreed resale may be at public or private sale including sale by way of one or more <span class="dictionary">contracts</span> to sell or of identification to an existing <span class="dictionary">contract</span> of the seller. Sale may be as a unit or in parcels and at any time and place and on any terms but every aspect of the sale including the method, manner, time, place and terms must be commercially reasonable. The resale must be reasonably identified as referring to the broken <span class="dictionary">contract</span>, but it is not necessary that the goods be in existence or that any or all of them have been identified to the <span class="dictionary">contract</span> before the breach. <a id="paragraph-240496" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-706/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Where the resale is at private sale the seller must give the buyer reasonable notification of his intention to resell. <a id="paragraph-240497" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-706/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Where the resale is at public sale <a id="paragraph-240498" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-706/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4a" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> only identified goods can be sold except where there is a recognized market for a public sale of futures in goods of the kind; and <a id="paragraph-240499" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-706/#4a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4b" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> it must be made at a usual place or market for public sale if one is reasonably available and except in the case of goods which are perishable or threaten to decline in value speedily the seller must give the buyer reasonable notice of the time and place of the resale; and <a id="paragraph-240500" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-706/#4b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4c" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> if the goods are not to be within the view of those attending the sale the notification of sale must state the place where the goods are located and provide for their reasonable inspection by prospective bidders; and <a id="paragraph-240501" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-706/#4c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4d" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">d.</span> the seller may buy. <a id="paragraph-240502" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-706/#4d"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="5"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> A purchaser who buys in good faith at a resale takes the goods free of any rights of the original buyer even though the seller fails to comply with one or more of the requirements of this section. <a id="paragraph-240503" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-706/#5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="6"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> The seller is not accountable to the buyer for any profit made on any resale. A person in the position of a seller (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="&quot;Person in the position of a seller.&quot;" href="/8.2-707/">8.2-707</a>) or a buyer who has rightfully rejected or justifiably revoked acceptance must account for any excess over the amount of his security interest, as hereinafter defined (subsection (3) of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Buyer's remedies in general; buyer's security interest in rejected goods" href="/8.2-711/">8.2-711</a>). <a id="paragraph-240504" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-706/#6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1964, c. 219.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
