I think this was a dumb move on the OPs part, I think Ant is justified in what he did and honestly I would be kinda bothered by it if I gave you a hook up and you sent all your friends my way to get hook ups. This is his job, he makes his living from selling. If the only people I had as customers were kids that came to me hearing I had deals on damaged items and thats all they wanted I would have told them something along the lines of No, are you interested in actually buying product otherwise I need to return to work, sounds like thats what he said as well, just with a few more words put in