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All day today it seems like I'm that guy in the Skittles commercial. You know the one where whatever he touches turns to Skittles? Yeah. That guy. Every single freebee I've posted has been dead or spam.
So I guess its only fitting that I post this free sample of Prilosec OTC. Why? Because its a Wal*Mart freebee which is almost always guaranteed. However? They die fast…
Its already cursed, folks… Get it fast…
[via the forums]
They are all out of samples 12/30/08.
Thanks for the insight! 🙂
Thanks for your hard work lolk O_o
And that is why you are awesome guys! We appreciate all the free goodies and hard work you do!
Well Dave, there’s really no telling sometimes. Sometimes it seems perfectly legit, and just because other folks have had bad reactions, we learn from our mistakes and problems, but other times? Its an old copyright date, a homemade website that looks poorly made, or just a strange domain name or request for personal information.
So don’t worry… Sometimes we don’t even know! 🙂
How do you know so quickly if a site is spam?? Maybe I’m just dense.
To follow up on Adam’s answer, other times we’re absolutely certain right off the bat that a freebie is legit. Anything from Walmart is legit, as is any freebie hosted on any company’s main website.
One way I judge if a freebie is a scam or not is to look at the public whois information of the website. Any legit freebie will have public info that corresponds to the company that makes the supposed freebie. It can get cumbersome trying to match the info, so that’s why I do it for everybody first 🙂