While we have spent considerable time on ethics, there are some laws you should be familiar with. These particular laws have special application to sale situations. The first is price discrimination. The Clayton Antitrust Act and the Robinson-Patman Amendment restrict selling the same product at different prices to different buyers. You cannot allow salespeople to indiscriminantly give price discounts just for the asking. There must be corresponding cost differential to justify the transaction. A general rule of thumb, you can not give a price to one customer without allowing the same price to others. Bribes is the payment of money or gifts to a customer that is part of the sales process. This practice has been illegal in the US for some time. However, bribery is not considered illegal in other countries. But since 1977, it is illegal for a US company to pay or bribe in another country. The last legal concern deals with information. In the US, it is illegal to make false, deceptive, or misleading claims about a product. While this is often contested in things like advertising, what a salesperson says is equally covered by the law. Any statement representing your products or services should be true, accurate, and able to be substantiated. It does not matter whether a false or misleading statement was intentional or not. Anything that causes a false impression is prohibited.