I imagine that produced a few funny conversations, that combined with the inevitable "I will take all of the ball screws that you have available, thank you" call.
The worst issue we had was competing with the windmill people for giant bearings. We were actually ordering those 1.5 years out at one point, for machines that no one had ordered and weren't designed yet.
At least you could sell them on to the windmill people if you never got an order for said machine, I guess.
"Wait…I'm worried what you just heard was give me a lot of balls screws. What I said..."