Ethical Problems on Treatment of Competitors can occur due to a businessmans greed and

desire for a more profitable business. Unfair business practices and trade defamation can
damage an individual's or company's ability to compete fairly in the marketplace. During our
brainstorming we came up with different ideas, illustrating unethical activities related to
treatment of competitors :))
Imitation the quality of an object in possessing in some of the nature or attributes of a
transcendent idea. Obviously imitating products comes with a lot of benefits, someone
else comes up with the idea, the research study, pays the capital cost, and advertising is
not easy. Businessmen look at imitations as rather a threat than of a compliment. Here are
some situations:
Narrator: Julie is the owner of the Victorias Secret Empire. She produces products such as RTWs
and Cosmetic products.
While Wendy in the other hand is an owner of a store that sells products imitated from
others. Products bear
The same name, design but far from the standards of the real product. Wendy visits stores
of known companies
to steal ideas from them.
Julie: Paki display na ung mga bago nating damit
Gladys: Right away mam
Wendy: Wow! Mai bago ulit sila! Mapicturan nga! :)
Narrator: Wendy, again, successfully made it out without being caught. She then went home and
talked to her workers
Wendy: ooh yan may bago ulit sila, galingan niyo paggawa huh? Parang ung dati rin parehong
name ng brand pero mas cheap lng ung price natin! Kikita tayo jan!
Joy and Aline: sige start na natin!
-we consider this unethical simply because the other party just copied ideas from the original
maker, it would be very easy for them to sell the product because the name has already been
established and there is no need for further advertising, the price is also lower than off the
original which adds edge to them, but as expected the quality is lower.
Another would be repackaging the original product into a substandard product. Example for
perfume, they mix the original product with water so that there would be a larger volume, after
that they repack the mixed product with another brand name/ the same brand name which in
the end they would sell in the market for a lower price, but still earn income.
Discrediting the competition harming the reputation of the other party involved. This
somehow happens every day not only is it applicable to business but sometimes in real
life.
Narrator: Jeenhel and Joyce are trying to choose where to take college. Ella the cousin of Joyce is
an employee in Amrol
Colleges, she tries to convince that the school she works in is better
than CLS College.
Jeenhel: Ui tol ano? San tayo mag e-enroll
Joyce: hindi ko nga alam eeh, naguguluhan na ako pero sa tingin ko mas maganda sa CLS nalang
Ella: Alma niyo mas maganda sa Amrol, compared sa CLS mas malinis ang pagpapatakbo doon,
sa CLS kasi gahaman ung
Ung mai ari kaya pineperahan lang kayo nun!
Jeenhel: ganun ba? Pero sabi nila maganda naman mag aral duon ate
Ella: hindi kaya! ngayon am panget na daw ng mga classrooms doon, and mapanghi at hindi
malinis ung CR, hindi pa gumagana mga aircon!
Joyce: Sa Amrol nalang tayo mag enroll Jen!
Jeenhel: Oo sige doon na lng
Ella: *on her head yeah tama yan!
-we consider this unethical because the things Ella said are biased, of course she works at the
other school, and her words are based only from hearsays not confirmed, and spreading the
wrong information may harm the other schools reputation
Another example is the commercial of Solmux against Lagundi
-where the endorser mentioned that the use of leaves( pertaining to Lagundi) in curing cough are
less effective and may contain germs that may worsen the situation.