During a recent discussion here, I mentioned that because a manufacturer allows an employee at a trade show and at other times to sell mainstream products directly to consumers in spite of having designated dealers with protected territories, I would never buy from either the distributor or the individual (who, incidentally, asked me not to ever tell an authorized distributor about the offer).
A participant in the discussion said that, because that was an issue he didn't have to deal with, it made no difference. He liked the product line and the individual and what I consider an unforgivable ethics violation didn't matter to him.
Does it (questionable ethics) matter to you? Would it impact taking a job or not or buying a product or not?
Russ
Russ,
If the product was so good and you could not buy it anywhere else and it blew your mind you might need to think about ethics a bit deeper, that's if you really wanted it. Maybe it's not that good, your can by the same elsewhere and it ain't blown your mind, Russ life is much too sort, live and let live, if the manufacture ain't worried why should we, anyway more to the point and much more seriously, how are you keeping. Anyway how can you measure how good a bunch of style is, beauty is the the ears of the beholder, what, did you say... bit a truth in what DonM says too