Is it ethical for a paint sales rep to recommend our jobs to other contractors to bid on?

Our business has slowed considerabley in the last few months. The only thing different in this area is the new paint Sales Rep for the company we buy paint from. We buy exclusively from them and they often recommend us to customers for jobs. But lately they have been recommending other contractors, not just to thier customers because that would just be alittle competition, but they are also taking our personal jobs that we bid on and calling up other painters and sendig them to the G.C. to outbid us. Today they called us to recommend a job that was anothers contractors job, telling us that he was afraid that the contractor may use another companies paint and told us how his bid was low but he would call the owners and talk to them to get us the job. We are not back stabbers, we do not want to be stabbed in the back either. We desperately need the work but not at the cost of someone elses livelyhood. What should we do this is a small area not to many other sales co.'s 2 work wit

Is it ethical for a paint sales rep to recommend our jobs to other contractors to bid on?
Call the owner or manager and tell on the rep. This is highly un-ethical.





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