Everything Is Free For A Price

The word free has no meaning anymore, it has become a scam ridden overused marketing ploy for far too long now and it needs to change.

We all have been on the internet and have seen the word free in just about any sort of marketing ploy out there, you can have this program for free, or you can join free.  It's never free though, and even if you try to jump through all their hoops to get your free product it is never worth it.

Joining a site for free doesn't cost you anything which is true and a play on words in my opinion.  You do have to enter a lot of your personal information for you to access the free site which is what these companies really want from you.  After you have done everything they have asked of you and you finally enter the site for "free" what do you get?  Usually nothing! Yay.

That company now has a bunch of information on you that they can use to make money themselves by selling it to the highest bidder.  They do this while you play your game for five minutes and reach a level where it wants you to pay money to continue.

I can see the next evolution of this scam that is going to come to fruition within the next few years.  Eventually you are going to see ads that claim they will pay you to join their site. Guess what that means?  Now you will have to put your bank account information into the website in order for them to pay you.  These sites will be asking for a lot more of your information and they will say it's to make sure you are of the appropriate age and to prove you are who you say you are.

Almost nothing is free anymore because there is always some sort of fine print or a type of catch that will prevent you from actually getting anything for free. This whole privacy statement that is twelve pages long and in lawyer lingo has got to come to an end.  Nobody wants to read through all that junk.  It should be in bullet form as:

• WE WILL
• WE WILL NOT

If it were like that anybody could read it and it would be clear and concise.  How this has been going for this long in lawyer texts and hieroglyphics completely baffles me.

I saw a free product once that said it was 100% free, after some scrutinizing I found out that it was indeed free but to ship it to you was one hundred and thirty dollars. What a scam, I'm so sick and tired of the moral code that is almost non existent in this world. 

Everything is free for a price
Scott Goerz