There are a couple things that I would addd to what cody, bippo, and chance
have said.
No. 1. Reps have bosses. these bosses want results. One of the results is how
many places have their product, and then how many places are ordering more
product after the promos. They are granted certain liberties (i.e. promos) to
achieve these goals, so that is what they care about. It's not about helping
you its about helping themselves. (this is not a negative comment). Take as
much advantage as you can, but play ball. a lot of the new products are geared
towards the type of people who frequent clubs, think hypnotic, flavored
vodkas, etc. For you this works out. Just don't take the awful crap like tatto
rum(?) or phillips flavored whiskey.
No. 2. Like cody was saying about competing reps not trying to replace each
others products, this is because they are often peddling the same products.
It's all about market share.
I hope this actually added to the convo.
-Nat