Suppose you started an advertising agency. Low cost, low overhead. In need of high volume in order to make big bucks for the investors

Or try this: you open a store but don’t want to buy inventory. So you go to bookstores, magazine stands, galleries, etc. You take their product to your store. And you offer not to do it anymore, if they tell you not to come into their store and take your work.
But this was only done so that they could sell advertising. Actually so they could sell you advertising. And the little genius’s didn’t know that the Big Talking Tree was never in this to make the woods better.