It imposes several duties on the buyer in bulk, including the duty to notify all creditors of the impending bulk transfer. It also requires compliance even when there is no reason to believe that the seller is conducting a fraudulent transfer. The Article imposes strict liability for noncompliance. Failure to comply with the provisions render the transfer ineffective, even when the buyer has complied in good faith. But today, changes in the business and legal contexts in which sales are conducted have made regulation of bulk sales unnecessary.
Creditors are better able to make informed decisions about whether to extend credit.
Changes in technology have enabled credit reporting services to provide fast, accurate, and more complete credit histories at relatively small cost. Creditors also have greater opportunity to collect their debts. The adoption of state long-arm statutes and rules have greatly improved the possibility of obtaining personal jurisdiction over a debtor who flees to another state. And creditors no longer face the choice of extending unsecured credit or no credit at all. If a bulk sale is fraudulent and the buyer is a party to the fraud, creditors have remedies under the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act.