Dilemma...

On my last trip back to Singapore, I met up with one of my ex-colleagues. She is now working as a Financial Planner. So we talked about the market and the industry and the possibility of me investing my money. I did not mind understanding more about the industry and so we talked. Thereafter, she asked me if I have any friends who might be interested. I was not sure if my friends would be interested. But I told her that I can check it out for her. She asked me for a list of numbers that she can call. But I said that she is not supposed to call the numbers until I give her the green light. I wanted to help her source for clients but at the same time, I do not want my friends to react negatively. She agreed and said that she would wait for my response before calling anyone.

So after that, I checked out for her but no one was interested. I replied her and told her not to call anyone of my friends as none of them was interested. However, a few days later, she went ahead to call them. Some of my friends told me about it. I confronted her and she said that since my friends are not negatively against the concept of investment, there is no harm just letting them know that she and her company exists.

Well, I understand her rationale. She was merely informing them of the services that her company offers. It is up to my friends to decided if they want to go further and explore the alternatives.

On the other hand, some of my friends are not that understanding, as I have realized. They came back to me and questioned why I gave their numbers away.

Well, I guess it could be viewed as a mistake to give my friend's numbers away. But I did it to help my other friend and with the understanding that if they were not interested, they could just tell the person and that would be the end of the story.

No matter what I say now, some of my friends are pissed purely at the fact that I gave their numbers away.

Despite the fact that I tried to shield them from the calls by telling my friend not to call them, she went ahead. I did try my best not to allow the negative consequences to happen. But it did anyway. I trusted her to act according to my findings, but she did not.

There seems to be nothing much that I can do now except to apologize to my friends.

Sigh, it seems like I will lose some friends soon. Did I do the wrong thing?