Recently I was talking with a friend of mine, and seeing as how I wrote about my love for chocolatey men recently I would like to throw in the fact that he is the epitome of a beautiful dark...I repeat...DARK skinned man. With that being said I will let you in on what we discussed! So he is having issues with a female friend because he just wants to be friends and she wants more. Now, adding the fact that..NO...they haven't had sex but have done something more than just friendly makes things complicated. She feels that he's giving mixed signals, whereas he doesn't feel that he has done anything wrong. So we came up with an analogy to help us better determine what was right and wrong in the situation. So...let's say you get a free trial for a product in the mail, and this isn't something you want to go out and buy but since it came to you and it's free you're more than likely going to take the free trial and put it to use. Now, if you continue to get the free trials and you continue to use them are you obligated to buy this product? I say no....not really. I feel that if there weren't any free trials in the first place you might not have even gave two shits about the product and now that its free why would you go out an buy it.......they keep giving it to you for FREE. Now if they stop sending me the product and I miss using it then maybe I'll go out and buy it....but if I don't miss it then that's the end of that. The only person invested in this type of situation is the person giving out the trials....because they are doing so with the hopes that their target market will buy the product. And when they don't see any results they're probably wary of whether or not to stop giving the free trials for fear that right when they stop giving it was when he was going to make a purchase. After analyzing the situation I feel that you should wait til' someone asks for a sample and if they like it then they'll more than likely buy.....but if you just give it for free willingly w/o being asked chances are they're not going to buy because they know they can get it for free. Like the old/random saying goes "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?"
Who doesn't love a good FREE trial?
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5.08.2008
1 comments:
The problem is that when a company gives you a sample they have several to give... out of the ones they give out they are atleast guaranteed to see a return on that investment.
When a girl/guy gives a sample, they giving up themselves... if they give it to you, they want to see a return, not a oh sorry, thanks for the "sample of that ass", it was good, but i'm not really interested. If they were to give out their "samples" to everyone interested then they would be considered a hoe.
I think people need to stop taking samples of things they know they don't want... and if they try a sample, atleast be respectful when deciding to not purchase the "product"
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