(1) Where a merchant, whose commercial undertaking involves the merchant’s serving as an agent for others, receives an offer of contract from someone with whom the merchant has a business relationship concerning such agency services, the merchant will be obliged to reply without undue delay; the merchant’s silence will be considered to constitute acceptance of the offer of contract. The same applies if a merchant receives an offer of contract concerning agency services from someone to whom the merchant has proposed to provide services as agent.
(2) Even if the merchant rejects the offer of contract, the merchant is to provisionally protect from damage, at the offeror's expense, the goods sent to the merchant insofar as the merchant is covered for such expenses and insofar as this can be done without detriment to the merchant.