A Tribute Post For People Fed Up With Freebie Seekers

Tell me… be honest… was I too harsh with this guy? Email correspondence pasted below.

Hi Bret
I saw you speak at a conference last year and I thought I’d give you a chance to write sales copy for my company.
 
We are launching an exciting piece of software for social media in two weeks time. We have two other copywriters submitting copy for this project. We will spilt-test your sales copy against the others to see which converts best. If your copy is successful, we will then let you write for our future projects.
 
We are happy to pay you for future projects, however this project is just a test to see if you qualify.