Maybe, though he's probably made 50 similar approaches to other companies too, probably plenty with successful outcomes (probably including manufacturers, which CH acknowledges as fine).Jobbo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 11, 2021 10:22 am If it was a cold call from his agent, he's still responsible; an agent acts with the authority of the principal.
Frankly if it was his agent, he should bin them. Their commercial intelligence is limited and they've caused him some seriously bad PR. It seems to me that influencers don't have the brand resilience to shrug off negative stories in the same way as, say, soap stars do.
Someone just called this one wrong (a niche product for a limited edition car that is already well publicised), and Lichfield took offence and decided to make a thing out of it and tell everyone.