Was he trying to set you up, or just looking to find someone else who didn’t like him?
I believe, trying to set me up. He was successful enough, that a couple complaints to the regional VP might have jeopardized the situation for my boss.
The sales people there were fairly cut-throat, and always going to the boss about how someone should be THEIR client, because they spotted them first. We used to joke about how one of the guys would just carry around the phone book and then could say anyone in the city was on his “prospect list”. Then they would try to play the boss off, to get favorable treatment, for them to get credit for the sales, even if someone else actually made the sale.