I can remember our Farnell rep popping round & being suitably impressed with our RS catalogue.
Not only was it still wrapped up, the whole bundle (5 separate books plus a CD-ROM in all) was holding the workshop door open!
We received all manner of goodies in the post following her visit, of which included a large tin of chocolates at Christmas
Later on, the RS rep showed up, asking if we'd seen their new catalogue, of course we had, it's holding the door open! Not nearly so impressed ...
SEME would send all manner of goodies with their rep, infrared remote control tester keyfobs were great tools to have, the Willowvale chap would show up with a case of cables, plugs etc, all good stuff & appreciated.
The chap from Elna furnished us with some seriously good electrolytics for an amp project I happened to mention, told him it was a homer too, a week later, a bag of goodies arrived as a 'sample' ... Some 18 years later, the amp still sounds fantastic
Mark