Many of my competitors love to make extra money by offering you front of the line service for a fee. I consider this to be a form of extortion and bribery that Panther Computers will not partake. With your entire life wrapped up in a computer these days, you would think having an ethical person or shop having access to your personal data and pictures would be paramount in your decision on who works on your PC.
First if you offer a goverment official money to do you a favor or give you preferred treatment, that is a bribe. It's illegal in most professions, but seems to become common place in the local computer business. Milton computers and Hard Drive Computers both have been quoted as doing this and I consider it to be distasteful and ethically questionable.
I'm sure you the Mr Moneybags who thinks you are more important than anyone else thinks its a great service since you percieve you got special treatment in exchange for cash. However I see it as you being pretentious and snooty to think you should be in front of anyone else who has been in line and waiting for their computer. We already offer business/student preference at no cost unless we have gotten far behind or are already committed.
I see the competition as extorting money from someone in a percieved need for faster service. Like most ethics problems, once you start down a road, its easy to get lost and entangled in the forrest of temptation. Its one thing to sell someone that front spot for $40 if it only happens once a week or more, but what happens if 4 people come in offering money? Do you up the price to $50 for the second guy, then $60, etc? Do you even call the first guy and tell him and if you do do you set a bidding war? Likely you dont say anything to anyone and take the extra cash from each and get to them when you can.
And what about the people you were working on that has been waiting their turn? Do you call them and say hey I got more cash from Mr Moneybags so I'm setting yours aside till his is done? If they call in asking why its not done do you tell them then or lie? I'm guessing you wait and lie.
Ok, so from my view I have competitors that will take bribes, extort money, and lie. Is this the kind of person you want having access to your bank account, pictures of your family, having knowledge of what websites you visit and what you look at? I would think it possible with questionable ethics, someone might steal your identity, copy pictures for bribing you, expose your life to others. Where do you trust their line to be drawn in the sand on what they will and wont do?
For me taking extra money for preferred treatment is an integrity problem that not only is CyberStupid!, but cyberquestionable behaviour.
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