According to Lord Reid (at 482-4), “Quite careful people often express precise opinions on social or informal occasions even when they see that others might be influenced by them; and they often do it without talking about the care they would have if they were asked for their opinion in a professional context or in a business relationship". This statement is basically about how easily words are spread and therefore it is difficult to prove special relationships. Sometimes the court does not want to deal with purely economic losses because it is afraid to open the floodgates, as many cases are indefinite depending on foresight and class size. Lord Reid described this by saying: “Two words can be conveyed with or without the consent of the foresight of the speaker or writer. It would be one thing to say that the speaker has a duty of care to the limited class, but it would be going very far to say that he has a duty to every final "consumer" who acts on those words to his detriment..." (Steel,