Re: Freebie Scams
I am walking a fine line here so delete if need be.
I am going to soon be one of those people with a website that makes money from advertising free offers. I will select only the ones that work for me and do not cause a lot of grief like spam.
For instance, one offer is for 3 free magazines. I get $1.25 for every person who signs up to get the 3 mags for 1 yr for free. Of course they are going to ask you to renew your subscription, but you are not obligated. I have circulated a few of these links around campus and have made some money and have never had any of my friends complain...yet.
Are there junk ads out there? Yes! Scams? Yes!
I am not real sure how to tell the difference until it is too late.
There are a zillion free items, but like Jeffrey said "there are alterior motives". Free snickers candy bars are just trying to get you to be a future buyer. Well free is free and what I do from then on is my choice.
I take all free offers I can and I have no problem doing so, but I also never go for the spam email or popup ones!!!!!!!
Any free offers posted here, should be taken with a grain of salt and if they don't work oh well what are you out.
Always use a junk email addy too!
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