A local school official has just left your store. He has offered to place your store on the school system$$s official approved source for cheerleader, band, and pep club uniforms. He said the current supplier has not been doing a very good job in ordering and delivering clothing for these organizations. The usual procedure is for the individual student to come to the store, order the clothing, and place a small deposit to assure the clothing will be picked up$.$ The store calls in the order to a specialty clothing$-$manufacturing firm who ships the goods within two working days.

A call to the manufacturing firm confirms its ability to supply a high$-$quality line at a reasonable price and guarantee two$-$day shipping $$most of the time.$$ Since the student makes a non$-$refundable deposit when ordering, you will have your shipping costs covered even if the clothing is not picked up$.$ Although the supplier will not take back these custom$-$manufactured goods, you feel you can keep the merchandise in stock and sell it to another student within a short period of time. A quick mental calculation determines that you would increase profits by at least $$3,000$ for the coming year if you become the school$$s supplier; in fact, profits could be over $$5,000$ if a club or two changed their uniform design and all new uniforms had to be ordered!

It seemed like a dream come true until the school official finished the explanation with, $$Of course, since I will be arranging all of this and encouraging clubs to buy from you, it$$s like I was working for YOU. I would certainly hope you would buy me a nice birthday present. After all, I couldn$$t take money from you since I am working for the school system. But I don$$t want to give you the wrong idea. The birthday present would be only if you wanted to$.$ There is no pressure involved. I guess other storeowners would want to be $$friends$$ with me if given the same opportunity!$$ When asked what he would like for his birthday, he replied, $$Well$,$ I$$ve always wanted to belong to the Windward Country Club.$$ What should you do$?$