What's the difference between buyer and vendor?

Buyer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who buys; a purchaser.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Seller reports are key to identifying bad buyers and ridding them from our marketplace," says eBay.
  • (2) Car manufacturers, for example, are not allowed to insist that buyers only get their car serviced by them.
  • (3) "We have concerns that a potential buyer looking at a property may not value the improvements carried out under Green Deal and may not want to pay for them," a mortgage industry source told the Observer .
  • (4) You could also chat to local estate agents to get an idea of what kind of extension, if any, would appeal to buyers in your area.
  • (5) Source: Mediacells (Or view the map at OpenHeatMap ) At the other end of the scale, a number of countries will see proportionately few new buyers - suggesting that the remaining featurephone owners are declining to upgrade to more powerful phones.
  • (6) In the past when banks have been bought, there has been a period where the cover has applied to accounts held in both the "bought" bank and the buyer to give customers who now have more than £85,000 in a single institution time to move the excess.
  • (7) My colleague Sean Farrell reported last night that the Scottish government had been looking for a buyer for the site .
  • (8) It will make entering the market more difficult still for new buyers, further highlighting the importance of the right timing, advice, support and financial planning; and not just having a mum and dad who bought a house, but a grandparent, too.” Average UK house price reaches £288,000 Read more The average property price in the UK, currently £283,565, is expected to double by 2030, breaking through the £500,000 mark to £557,444.
  • (9) A 20% discount will save the average first-time buyer £43,000 on a £218,000 home (the average cost paid by such buyers), which would leave a revenue shortfall of £8bn from income if current regulatory obligations had been retained on the 200,000 homes.
  • (10) News International executives are also understood to have been testing the water for a potentially swift launch of a Sunday edition of the Sun as a replacement for NoW, which published the final issue in its 168-year history on Sunday, in conversations with advertisers and media buyers.
  • (11) According to Hometrack, in autumn 2012 buyers were paying between 92% and 95% of the asking prices, but that does not mean you should expect that for yours.
  • (12) The main plans include: • a scheme to help buyers secure mortgages of up to 95% loan-to-value.
  • (13) He was bidding on behalf of an unknown and clearly stupendously rich buyer.
  • (14) This means 9 in 10 first time buyers will pay no stamp duty at all.
  • (15) There’s no question we’re looking at a world very much in transition,” he says, “and we’re seeing more buyers who want more original series.” Thanks to the increasing popularity of UK shows and actors in the US, doors have been thrown wide open.
  • (16) A national random sample of 1,017 new-car buyers was surveyed.
  • (17) Those who bought "luxury' villas for €1m in the good times would be lucky to get a third for them now – if, that is, they could ever find a buyer happy to tolerate living on an unfinished complex.
  • (18) Labour’s promise of a stamp duty holiday for first-time buyers will lead to higher house prices.
  • (19) In that context, the amount paid for late-career work like Women of Algiers is probably a good investment; while it has nowhere near the raw energy of early masterpieces such as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) or the significance of mid-career icons such as Guernica (1937), in an international market where the artist’s name casts a spell on potential buyers, it’s a respectable piece that can be immediately identified as a “Picasso”.
  • (20) He advises first-time buyers not to rush in: "Try and save as much as you can: having a bigger deposit will not only mean you can get a mortgage, but also secure you a better rate."

Vendor


Definition:

  • (n.) A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Britain's estate agents today report a surge in the number of properties for sale amid signs jittery vendors are keen to strike a deal before next month's general election.
  • (2) The solicitor did a search, they went through the parish records and local histories, they got a sworn statement from the vendors: in the 150-plus years since it was built, the farm had never flooded.
  • (3) The most basic mark of credibility for a Democratic campaign is whether it has bought access to the voter file as administered through NGP VAN , the Democratic party’s quasi-official vendor for voting information.
  • (4) Drugs, equipment and supplies are available through the hospital and contract vendors.
  • (5) It is suggested that primary responsibility for quality control be placed on the relatively few manufacturer-vendors rather than on the multiple purchaser-users, who may not possess either the expertise or the resources for quality control programs.
  • (6) Because fused silica columns with immobilized stationary phases of varying polarities are offered by numerous vendors of chromatographic equipment, they have become widely used for many analytical tasks.
  • (7) However, enzymatic kits for free glycerol analysis obtained from different vendors have, on occasion, provided different results for a given sample.
  • (8) "We've got no more food and no more house, so leaving is the only thing to do," Livena Livel, a 22-year-old street vendor, told Associated Press.
  • (9) There is still plenty vendors can do to make sure their property stands out in the online "beauty parade", says John Durrant, a former estate agent turned professional photographer, whose website www.doctor-photo.co.uk will improve photographs of your home for just £3 a shot.
  • (10) Street vendors and shoppers also appear to have been targeted in an attack in central Baghdad just hours later.
  • (11) I looked on the UK cannabis forum, which had 30,000 postings, and a vendor called JesusOfRave was recommended.
  • (12) For searchers without access to a medical library or for more experienced searchers, an information vendor such as BRS, MEDIS, or DIALOG may be more appropriate.
  • (13) Germany and the Netherlands were joint third in the numbers of dealers, with 225 each, although Dutch vendors made fewer but, on average, larger transactions and operated in a far smaller jurisdiction.
  • (14) On 2 August Fayaz Rah, a 39-year-old fruit vendor from Batamaloo, had lunch with his wife and three children.
  • (15) Inside, vendors sold balloons, candyfloss and posters of Sisi with Nasser, Sisi with a roaring lion, Sisi with his trademark sunglasses.
  • (16) An annotated guide to database vendors is provided, and guidelines are offered that will assist the physician in selecting equipment and assessing services.
  • (17) The rationale for a statewide list and the criteria for choosing vendors are discussed.
  • (18) Where in July street vendors sold hats and T-shirts with slogans such as “Hillary for Prison” and “Life’s a bitch, don’t vote for one”, this week the merchandise says “Hard working town Cleveland”, “Land of champions”, “C*town don’t back down” and “I liked Cleveland before it was cool”.
  • (19) Pasteurella multocida was isolated from 42 of the 135 (31%) deep nasal swabs from clinically healthy conventional rabbits supplied by two vendors.
  • (20) Working with the radiology department to compile a standard list of radiopharmaceuticals and radiopaque contrast media and soliciting competitive bids by vendors of these products resulted in annual savings of more than $83,000.