Can one sell allowed product and &quot;give&quot; unallowed product for free?
<p>According to <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/yi2fz.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a>: A student was selling paninis to other students.  When campus police made him stop because it's against school rules to sell food outside of approved bake sales, he began selling paper towels for the same price and giving a free panini with each paper towel.</p>

<p>In general would one be allowed to give away a product for which one lacks a permit to sell, conditioned on people purchasing a product for which no permit is required?</p>

<p>If the ability to get a Pannini is conditioned on buying paper towels for money, then he isn't really selling paper towels for $2 and the Pannini for free, he is really selling a package consisting of paper towels and a Pannini for $2, so it would probably still be illegal.</p>

<p>The phrase lawyers and judges use to talk about attempts to create loopholes like this one is "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/too_clever_by_half" rel="nofollow noreferrer">too clever by half</a>", which means: "Shrewd but flawed by overthinking or excessive complexity, with a resulting tendency to be unreliable or unsuccessful."</p>

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