Consider you are a purchasing agent with a mid$-$sized, predominantly family owned business. You have a good relationship with a certain vendor and buy a few things from them when that supplier is the most logical$,$ cost$-$effective supplier. However, recently that vendor has begun a push to get you to buy more items from them. Their pricing is still too high while the quality of their goods sold are equal to that of your current primary suppliers. First, they provide small tokens of appreciation for the business you do send their way. For example, a $$5$ iTunes gift card was in your interoffice mailbox from this supplier.

A couple months pass and it is now March and time for college basketball's national tournament to be played at the Greensboro Coliseum. At this time the vendor offers you and a colleague tickets to the tournament, in spite of the fact you may not order the value of the tickets offered over the course of an entire month.

Therefore the question is: what do you do and why?