How many of us have hoped to get something for nothing and have had to pay for shipping and handling? And by reading the fine print, you will find that taxes and tips are your responsibility.
If it’s supposed to be free then you shouldn’t pay anything, zip, zero, nothing, correct.
Well, how many times have you seen something that is advertised for free? So the fine print says only with purchase. Also, the purchase must exceed a certain amount. I know advertising people have to make money somehow, but honestly, sometimes those gift offers are a cover-up for a major purchase that most gift seekers can’t afford. Or they are only available in a certain country. (Usually not where I live).
Well sometimes the last one annoys me. I go through all the trouble of getting to a website and find that I can’t apply for it anyway because I don’t live in the right country.
Don’t those big companies know that there are people who live north of the US border and that we like free stuff too? Well, there are some companies that give gifts to Canadians and for that I will spend my hard-earned money on their products.
This is what I got in the last 5 years:
1. A Compaq laptop carrying case
2. Feminine hygiene products
3. Post / General Mills Family Size Cereal Box
4. NASA posters, mental health organizations, music clubs
5. Cash for earning on survey sites
6. Certificates from Brainbench.com
7. Beauty products
8. Brochures and coupons for Bed and Breakfast Inns
9. Gift certificates for Amazon.com
10. Fishing magazines
11. T-shirts
12. Twenty boxes of tissue from the manufacturer.
13. Gift cards for Future Shop
14. Yeast flour
15. Kool-aide Jammers and Sports Drinks
16. Razors
17. Hair clips
18. Stationary
19. Free software discs + free trials
and, of course, free money to take surveys.
These are the ones I remember and there have been plenty of coupons online and offline for different things from soup to island vacations. If there are promotion people who want a family to try products, we usually do that too.
We’ve been in polls on Ketchup, Laundry Soap, Hand Soap and Body Wash, Kraft Dinner, and Mayonnaise, just to name a few.
I’m sure there are plenty of freebies for everyone and will keep searching the web.