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> Please tell me what the business benefits for the dealer to point me out to Triumph would be, why would he not just behave naturally?
As you yourself have said, you don't really know that he did turn you in. Even so, I think you're applying a double standard in forgiving Triumph for showing you the door but busting the dealer's chops for the part he may (or may not) have had in it.
It doesn't matter WHY you were there or how innocent your intentions... Triumph would have no way of verifying that. And for that matter, neither would your dealer, based on what you've since told us!
As a "senior business man" I'm very surprised that you didn't think of the problems you might cause for your dealer by turning up there. Non-disclosure agreements are a very big part of business when companies are bringing out new products. The dealer's convention is NOT a trade show! And more business goes on there than just the introduction of new models, none of which is any of our business as customers.
When you had "tipped off" the dealer the day before that you might try to crash the event, he probably didn't take it all that seriously. But when you DID, in fact, show up, you put him in an extremely awkward spot--and I fully imagine he wondered at that moment just how innocent your intentions were.
Better to let this sleeping dog lie and patch up relations with the dealer if he's been good to you in the past.
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John
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