Giving bats away to players is easy, making to their personal spec's is hard, have had county players fighting over a bat or 2 which seems to be a good sign to me. Every player is different, some simply don't really care, some are complete nerd's and the rest in between.
I sold bats to a senior Pakistani player last year who was a pleasure to deal with, tried to help a county second team reject this season and he was a nightmare, he didn't have a clue about the style, weight or build of his bats yet claimed to be very fussy, all he wanted was new stickers to show he was a sponsored player and put them on his old bats.
It would be very simplistic to group "Pro's" together, I like dealing with them as I like the kudos.