That's not that uncommon. We've had so many examples in Lithuania,which has less people than suburbs in New York,where some local functionaries thought that large US companies are nice and easy to deal with just to end up with the crappiest deals ever.Some were literally salivating from the fact that a few hot shots from the US will visit their god's forgotten town. One can build any experience, including dealing with multinationals, however it usually comes with very expensive lessons.