Do dealers raise reputation with customers?

[Ghostbroker]

Do I need to personally keep a customer I am trying to rep to unlock a dealer/supplier, or can I passively increase it by assigning that person to a dealer?

[Yure]

I have seen the customer relationship go down when paired with a dealer

[Obiwan]

I think matching their preferences plays a bigger part when the dealer is handing it out - not sure - but it definitely doesn't go up as quick so i like to handle clients directly till i get them happy then move em onto dealers. Keep quality good and it shouldn't drop

[BeFaRd]

yes the dealers raise reputation i tride and it worked

[IMPERIAL_POPE]

yes it raised it .. .just slower than doing it yourself... but eventually it maxes out.... putting your dealers onto new customers progresses u pretty easily

[Apples]

Originally posted by Yure:

I have seen the customer relationship go down when paired with a dealer

I wonder if that is distance related, as i have seen it go up... i imagine the further they are away, the less likely the dealer will reach them before the day is out... thus going back down.

[Character]

I always assign the customer needed to unlock suppliers/dealers to one of my dealers as soon as I discover them. It may take longer but it works.

[johnlucci]

From my experience, it will slowly raise it. The only time I've ever seen anyone lose relationship was from one who would start fiending and come to me directly because I turned them down on the phone. I still refuse them and have knocked them out or shot them multiple times now.