You're a salesman.You approach potential clients and attempt to sell them your product.During your discussion with a potential new client who is arepresentativeof a large corporation, you learn she is a huge NY Jets fan.You just so happen to have two tickets to this weekend's game that you can't go to so you decided to post the tickets for sale on craigslist, trying to make a little extra money.Instead, you offer to give the tickets for free to the potential client.

A. Is your offer of the tickets unethical?Why or why not?Is it criminal?Why or why not?

B. Has the client, by accepting the tickets, committed an unethical act?Why or why not? Is it criminal?Why or why not?

C. Three standard strategies for alleviating ethical concerns surrounding conflicts of interest are

• transparency,
• recusal,
• organizational codes.

How could each of these strategies be applied to the conflict-of-interest issue of giving/accepting tickets?