Archive for Head FOD
Ralph Johnson is the Head FOD. He cracks the whip over a merry band of internet marketers at FreeOfferDetective.com. They research "Free" Offer sites around the web. Then they write informative and (hopefully) entertaining articles about what to expect from these sites and what options internet bargain hunters may have on them.
Finding The Clearance Sales
Reprinted with permission from Online Shopping Bargains.net. Do you want to know the secrets to online shopping bargains? How about a way to save money buying your favorite clothing brands on the internet? Maybe they’re not really secrets but everybody knows little rules of thumb that help people find great online bargains. We’re all [...]
14Apr2011 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued
They’re Only Free In One Sense of the Word
Like Beauty, Free is in the Eye of the Beholder Why would these offers really be free—meaning “without cost”? Just because they say so? We refuse to believe that the most discriminating shoppers in the world have become that gullible. And, they haven’t, of course. But, the Free Offer website owner will give you the [...]
15Feb2011 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued
The Tide May Be Turning!
Hooray! We must be starting to get the point across! We’re not tooting our own horn here, but we think the point is being made about these free offer sites. We appreciate the comments form RH and others, along with the emails, and it’s gratifying to learn that knowledge is seeping through out there. Call [...]
31Jan2011 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued
Stop Us If You’ve Heard This Before
OK, One More Time for the Record Let’s say you clicked the banner for a free MacBook Air laptop. When you get to that web site, the fine print at the bottom will say that the owner of the web site you’re now on is giving away the laptop. This means that none of the [...]
17Nov2010 | Head FOD | 3 comments | Continued
Never Forget: “Caveat Emptor”
Gotta read all the fine print on these Free Offer sites. The “devil is in the details” is our other admonishment to unwary participants.
5Oct2010 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued
Are They Really, Totally Free?
Why Would Valuable Items Be Offered Totally Free? The most casual of observers, if they’re honest with themselves, just have to know that the incentive items used by free offer sites (laptop, $1,000 gift card, airline tickets, etc.) couldn’t actually be free since they all have relatively substantial (i.e., not cheap) dollar values. Surely we [...]
7Sep2010 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued
Genesis: Free Offer Detective .com
The whole idea behind the creation of www.FreeOfferDetective.com was to provide solid, actionable information to the consumer so they would be in control of the decision to participate in a particular site or not.
30Apr2010 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued
What a scary word that is: “free”
Like beauty, “free” may only show up in the eye of the beholder. But, learn how the investigators at FreeOfferDetective.com are looking out (and around) for you.
25Aug2009 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued
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Since you haven't gotten any comments I just wanted to say that you did make all of this very clear ...