[Avodah] How much for the mayo?

[David W. Eisen]

RZS writes:

RYC doesn't say why you were not a shliach, but perhaps one reason is because the "meshaleach" didn't give you money with which to buy the shirt for him.

RTK's case with the mayo is completely different, because at the time she took the discount she was acting entirely for herself.

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My question indeed was concerned with ribbit, though RYC in his teshuva explained that it did not arise since I was deemed neither to be a shaliah nor a lender. As RYC explains, I would have been considered a shaliah even without receiving the money had I become a lender to the person who requested that I purchase the shirt, but as he correctly noted, I did not consider my son's friend to be liable to me had the shirt gotten lost or damaged between the purchase and delivery nor did the ownership to the shirt transfer to the friend at the time that the purchase was made, rather, he became the owner only the moment that he actually paid for the shirt upon receipt.

Along these lines, the case of the mayo is similar as the purchase was not attributed to the friend. Even though I was doing a favor for the friend, nor formal shlihut had been created, so I was effectively acting for myself, at least according to RYC, as explained above.

Kol tuv,
David

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