Buyer and Seller enrolled in their employer's "Get Fit" program, which required all participants to purchase a treadmill to use in their office during lunchtime. Buyer and Seller were on different floors of the employer's office building. Buyer bought an inexpensive treadmill without any bells and whistles. Seller purchased a $2,000 state of the art treadmill with a television screen and calorie counter. After several months, Buyer was pleased to find that he could not get enough of the treadmill. He used it every chance he got. Seller, on the other hand, lost interest in the treadmill and dropped out of the "Get Fit" program. When Seller heard how much Buyer enjoyed the program, he wrote Buyer an e-mail 18 describing his treadmill and explaining he had lost interest in the fitness program. The e-mail provided, "If you pick up the treadmill at my office during business hours within the next three weeks, I will let you have it for $750." Buyer got busy at work and was unable to pick up the treadmill. Two weeks after Buyer received the offer, Seller's co-worker was at a meeting with Buyer and accurately told Buyer that Seller had already sold the treadmill to another employee. The co-worker was a good friend of Seller's and a trustworthy individual. Nevertheless, the next day, Buyer went to Seller's office to pick up the treadmill and presented Seller with a check for $750. Seller refused to sell the machine.
The conversation between Buyer and Seller's co-worker (where the co-worker told Buyer that Seller had sold the treadmill to another employee) should be found by the court to be:
(A) An indirect revocation of Seller's offer.
(B) Of no legal effect because Seller's offer was irrevocable.
(C) Of no legal effect because Seller's co-worker is a third party and cannot revoke on behalf of Seller.
(D) A direct revocation of Seller's offer because no contract was formed when Buyer failed to send a letter back accepting the offer.