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The article focuses on one of the basic questions when concluding a contract on the discount website – what is the nature of the legal relationship, i.e. which party actually enters into a binding agreement with the consumer and thus accepts the obligations specified therein. The consumer buys vouchers at the discount website run by operators who are in a legal relationship with the merchant. The discount website operator receives the money from the consumer, keeps a certain amount as a provision and the outstan...

The article focuses on the analysis of consumer protection within the online discount vouchers, sales on so called discount websites. Their practices may be a dangerous and unknown territory to most consumers. Still, there is no complex legal regulation of this young and rapidly growing business in the Czech legal environment. In practice there are several problematic issues discussed with connection to the sale on discount websites. The most questioned are the character of the legal relationship of parties, when ...