Is that really free? I dont think so.!

oh no,, yeah its not indeed a free stuff. it usually is just like that - a promo and they are selling it not as the prevailing market rate, but selling it as stock price, perhaps. but me, i do not usually believe in such as i always think there's a catch, like its old stock, and they will release new one... and so on...

no not necessarily, there are laws about that, you can't sell over the actual price to get on free, in most cities, but you buy one at regular price and you get one free, so say something is 2.00 regular instead of getting one for 2.00 you get 2.00 and so you say a dollar.

I wouldn't consider it a con, but I do get a kick out of just the same! LOL My favorite has to be a time my husband and I went to a department store during Easter one year. They had some promotional thing going on. One of the employees there offered us an egg (one of those plastic ones that open up). When my husband and I opened it, we found out it was for a free picture at their studio (I don't remember the size, I think it was a 10 x 16, or something like that). Anyway, there was a sitting fee of $10, so it wasn't really free. However, my husband and I still got it done. Why? Well, it certainly wasn't because it was "free", that's for sure! LOL As I was pregnant with our oldest I figured it was our only opportunity to get our picture taken by a "professional photographer". And although my husband wasn't too crazy about they're little ploy, he still agreed to it as he wanted to make me happy. What's even funnier, is the day we got our pictures taken. The photographer there tried to sell us more pictures than just one we had "won". Boy was she peeved when we told her we didn't want any more pictures...just the free one! And here she had gone through taking a bunch of pictures of us! That's what she got for not asking us before going picture happy on us. We might have spent $10 that day for the sitting fee, but it was worth it in the end just to see the look on that woman's face! Now that is what I call priceless! Happy mylotting!

Bunny, you are right that mostly promo things like buy 1 free 1, are not really cheap. But, things that are needed to buy in bulk usually would be cheaper in cost. That's why, whenever i came across things that are in promo, i would firstly calculate the cost. If it is worth it and really very cheap, then only i would buy it. If not, i prefer not to buy in bulk. I don't want to see my money being tied to things that are not worth the price.

In many situations I do think that these free deals really are just something that is out there to get a person to spend more money than they had intended to sell. However, I don't think that this is something that is always the case. For example, at the grocery store where I do most of my shopping, they do run a lot of buy one get one sales. However, when they are running these sales, they will actually sell a single item for half of the usual price of that single item, so you are not forced to buy more than you were planning on buying.

Hi friend, good to hear about this new offer, there is nothing wrong in grabbing this kind of offers and we will get benefits with them. I too like this kind of offers and always grab them

You are right in many cases. I never buy BOGO if they've raised the price too much. And I have to need the item, too. I would much rather they just cut the price in half. A lot of times I don't need two but buy the second anyway if the price is right. I keep track of prices in my stores on the things I need and use. Since I started doing that I save a lot of money by not getting fooled by phony deals.

It would be nice if things were free but in most cases they are NOT free. Yes, it is a con to get us to buy into their fantasy

I do agree. There are a lot of times I think the store marks one up so that they make you think you are getting one free but not. I know that even when we have tax free weekend here that the stores mark the prices up on some products too make a little extra. They know people are going to do a lot of shopping that weekend.