Free on the internet What does that mean?DeCePTionnnnnn
By raydene
@raydene (9871)
United States
May 6, 2007 11:53am CST
Internet example of free:
Free beauty products ...click here
Next window says to get your free products take this survey.
do you buy..
do you use..
how many times do you...
how often...
Now you got to the next page
complete any free offer to get your first free offer
so now you have to choose one of these things to sign up..
you choose an offer thinking I can use some coffee anyway..
now you are sent in two directions answering another survey when the first is still going page after page.
the second offer tells you to complete any offer to get the free coffee..
it has turned from free beauty products to a spider reaching farther and farther into every aspect of your home..
You started with free beauty product in your bedroom...
to free coffee for your kitchen..
then to free bathtub cleaner for your bathroon..
into the livingroom with free pledge for dusting...
And each one has more survey..actually more hidden hooks for the human fish swimming happily along in the internet ocean of deception..
How many hooks have you swallowed?
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9 responses
@darkness01 (1300)
•
6 May 07
There is no such thing as free on the internet. If someone says they are going to give you an Xbox 360, for example, for free its not as simple as putting in your adress and waiting to receive it in the mail. There are complications, some sites put it in small writing that you must refer 10 friends and they muct sign up and do what you are doing to get the Xbox 360, you are also required to complete some offers from associated websites and so forth. By the time you and your ten refearals have done all this you could of just bought one yourself.
I just dont signup with companies i have not heard of and i keep a email adress just for these type of offers if i do decide to participate in them, which is very rarely.
@lingli_78 (12822)
• Australia
7 May 07
i never believe in such things anyway... nothing is free in this world except for the air that we breathe... so i never believe in those things and i always work hard to achieve what i want... anyway, if we get what we want easily (or free), we will not appreciate it and it will lose easily as well... but if we have to earn it to get something, it will bring more value to us and we will appreciate it more... like what the saying says "easy come, easy go..."
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@kathy77 (7486)
• Australia
7 May 07
Hi Hon, Wow well I am happy when I do my surveys they are not like this as I would be there all day all night if you know what I mean that is dreadful do some surveys really do like this for you as mine do not the ones I do. But I understand that some must otherwise I do not think that you would be sending out this discussion saying this. xx
@lloydanthony111 (4698)
• United States
6 May 07
I've been tricked by these so-call "free offers" before.
It's just page after page of answering questions. And then when you finally think you are finished, then you have to subscribe to something that usually require either a shipping and handling charge or some other type of purchase.
The worse part is that soon after filling out the information, you'll be spammed like crazy.
They sell your email address to anyone who will buy it.
I know longer go for free offers.
Lloyd
@raydene (9871)
• United States
7 May 07
Hi Daughter,Happy to see you here answering discussions...
I will never never never do any of these again.I'm so tired of all the time they steal from us.It takes time to delete all that spam and scam stuff.Over half of what comes in my email is junk.I go to the po and throw junk away at the po.And do same online.
Love to David and the grandkids
Hug..big Hugs to all of you and a special one for you Darling
oxxoxo
Mom
@rusty2rusty (6763)
• Defiance, Ohio
22 May 07
I do not fill out any form for a freebie. Unless it is absolutely free. I have a different email address just for filling those forms out. I do not fill out surveys first because they are usally scams trying to get you to buy their products or something. To me that is a scam. I do not fill out for the ones that free but than you find oit you have to pay shipping. To me that isn't free. i would like a sample..not your whole backyard.
@vanities (11395)
• Davao, Philippines
7 May 07
i have already read some of that here in the net, but i think its one trick of online selling where in everyone is enticed for a free product , which you can avail if you are going to buy one offered..but i dont consider it as deception,since offline there is no such free things except when you got to buy their product.. its a promotional thing i guess..
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