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[[09093]]Section 2-205 provides, with respect to 'firm offers': An offer by a merchant to buy or sell goods in a signed writing which by its terms gives assurance that it will be held open is not revocable, for lack of consideration, during the time stated or, if no time is stated, for a reasonable time, but in no event may such period of irrevocability exceed three months; but any such term of assurance on a form supplied by the offeree must be separately signed by the offeror.

The purpose of the section is 'to modify the former rule which required that 'firm offers' ...