"That Wine is Out of Stock"

[Jason]

What is it with you guys and you're little anti-distributor streak? I assume you all have good customers and treat them as such.
If this is the case, then why do you begrudge the distribs for doing the same? The big guys get first dibs as a thank you, it just makes sense.
Plenty of little guys get some to. People that are good customers always get taken care of. Are you really telling me that retailers don't hold back, and sell all their cherries to anybody that walks through the door? Come on now, get real. Restaurants don't hold tables or food for special customers? Of course this happens, yet when distribs do it, you get your panties in a wad.
The "hardball trick" is like those restaurant guests who call in a fake food poisoning complaint to the health inspector because they feel slighted in some way. How would that person then be treated in the restaurant?
This business is all about relationships. Once you sour that, you are worse off for it.