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How to get free stuff from the internet

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Seems like a crazy idea at first right?

Who would want to give away expensive free gifts? And most importantly why?

If you're asking yourself these questions, you should have a better understanding after reading this.

When companies want to advertise, they obviously produce many different marketing strategies. Now when you think of the word advert, television adverts often spring to mind. Television adverts are broadcasted to a very large audience, but can never really be targeted at someone specific as the television channel doesn't know you or your interests.

For the passed decade, companies have began to invest enormous amounts of money into internet advertising. The Internet is a growing audience and can be targeted more easily by these big companies, as the adverts on most web pages are related to the content on that exact page.

So where do these free gifts come into this?

The gifts aren't really free at all. If they were, the companies would lose out and go bankrupt.

Another marketing idea that many companies came up with was a sort of 'try, buy and reffer' strategy, where the customer would either take a free or inexpensive trial of their services and gain a small reward from it if they referred a few others to do the same. This creates a branching effect with an exponential growth, targeting many thousands of people from the first customer. The companies do this all in the hope that you will like the service that they provide and will continue to use it.

The 'agent' company that you are then signed up with will give you a list of gifts to choose from. Referring one person normally gains you around £20 in gifts. Obviously as you can imagine, if you keep doing this it's very easy to afford anything from around £100 to £500.

Two really informative websites that I found are EasyFreeGifts.com and iFreebies.co.uk. They even display evidence of receiving gifts.

If you still don't believe this, check out the BBC Newsnight Feature:

Happy gift receiving!