Originally Posted by
SlowRoller
As for the
PR stuff, if you are trying to barter your service for his, then it's his right to turn down the offer.
+1
I would think that any retailer or manufacturer of outdoor/camping/mountaineering/bicycling gear gets these requests on a daily basis.
I would think it would be surprising, however, for someone to get a business proposition on the phone and then find the proposed deal publicized on the Internet. You offered BG a business deal. He turned you down. Then it shows up on the web as a comment on his phone manners some years later?
Is it really appropriate to offer someone a business deal in a (presumably private) conversation and then publicize the rejection of that deal as a comment on their consumer-facing customer service and/or bicycles?