Because our actions have cosequences, I will not be going to the bowling/winetasting/eight ball party tomorrow night with the rest of my town's Upper Wine Echelon. I always assumed that buyers never really had to face any payback for what they dished out to wholesalers but I've learned my lesson now. And, who better to learn it from than two of the industry's most arrogant, ill-informed, obnoxious, and irresponsible people than the two that run that company? One is a former sales rep of mine; someone that I trusted with enormous amounts of business and leeway only to find out that he was selling all his allocations of fine wines to one of my competitors while denying me the wines. Mind you, these are allocations that he got because he was doing so well in his territory. Doing well because of me! And he gave all his cherries to the other account! Now, it gets really interesting here: he started a distributorship with the guy that owned this wine shop! No kidding! They use the wineshop guy's Dad's money to pay for it. And, they are surprised that I don't want to buy any wine from them!! They think I'm a real bitch because I don't want their $60 bottles of Chardonnay and Merlot from Napa Valley. Isn't that rich? One of them looks like he's strung out on coke all the time- I daresay this is while people want to party with him...it certainly is why I want to. Right. Because there's nothing better than that to do.
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