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Especially as the advertising slots we have just made available on FSD are incredibly expensive and we only have 6050+ email newsletter subscribers, 1000 twitter followers and a mere few thousands readers stopping by regularly. Sounds like a small list of friends really…

Who can afford to pay these advertising rates whilst keeping food on the table and control of the family budget?

• $1 for 24 hours
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• $9.80 for 2 weeks
• $19.93 for a month
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Similar sites to FSD only charge up too $50-100 per month for similar advertising space in the upper right hand corner of their sites. After all, we all know the top right real estate on a site is the worst place to advertise, as we’d prefer to scroll down to see our published advertisements rather then having them right in our face where people might click them – am I right?

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We have decided to open up advertising slots on the site to help you gain exposure to your site for as little as $10 per month.

Minimal investment in advertising to build your traffic like this is usually unheard of from sites receiving as much traffic as FSD.

If you are interested in building brand awareness and driving traffic to your site stop by our advertising page for details.

Emails from charities, schools and functions requesting boxes of free samples. For those not yet aware FSD doesn’t actually have piles of samples sitting here with us (we wish!). We promote other retailer/manufacturers quality products by letting you know when and where they are offering freebies. The “Direct” in FreeSamplesDirect refers to directly linking you with the product sample providers. We more than welcome anyone to send us boxes of samples though or help out these charities/schools/functions directly

People that email with a subject “send me some samples” and just their address in the email body. You would be surprised how many people do this!

People that complain a free sample was not a full sized product. Did they miss the bit about it being a sample and free?

International companies wanting to setup partnerships in their local countries to take FSD global.

Feedback on samples visitors have received and how much they liked them – these are always great!

People wanting their products or web sites mentioned on the blog – offers too good to refuse – apparently?

A lot of offers of free Viagra, Money and Lotto Wins – I must have a lot of rich overseas relatives and have grown something between my legs that others know about that I haven’t discovered yet.

It is always fun to receive interesting email, which brings me to a point of discussion.

What is the wierdest, strangest or outright oddest email you have ever received?

As we never ask for any of our visitors personal information directly we will never use it nor pass it onto any other organisation.

If a visitor subscribes to our blog email update service those details are stored and accessed by us through Feedburner (our email mailing list service provider). We only use these details to send blog updates to our subscribed email service visitors and do not use these details for purposes beyond FreeSamplesDirect use.

Please note that no free samples are provided by us. We simply are a service to directly connect our visitors with free sample offers of other sites, merchants, manufacturers, retailers, etc who are offering the free samples.These sites/providers do obtain visitor personal information in accordance with their own individual terms & conditions and privacy policies to enable them to provide visitors with their free samples. Other reasons they may collect visitor information include, but are not limited to, learning about their potential customers, market research purposes, cross selling other products, calling/emailing/writing to you to connect with other products, etc. It is our visitors accountability to ensure they are aware of the policies and terms of each of the respective offers from the web sites we link our visitors too before they proceed with any sample offer, request, subscription, survey responses, etc.

To help keep this site running, at times, we promote samples which provide us with a small commission that allows us to continue to effectively run this service. In these cases we try and stick to promoting quality free samples from well known brands. (Update: We will disclosure samples which we have been paid to promote).

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Last Updated: 11th October 2009

It is more important than ever to:
1 ) Keep Your Personal Information Private
2 ) Read Terms and Conditions on Freebie Sites
3 ) Make Sure you are ordering from a legitimate web site
4 ) Buy the full product if you like the sample – if nobody buys the free samples wouldn’t be provided by sites
5 ) Automatically fill in forms to save time
6 ) Use common sense with offers too good to be true

You can read the original full post I wrote by clicking here.

A few things I’d like to add to this original post which I find useful when requesting freebies online.

7 ) Don’t always expect freebies to show up – sometimes companies are overrun with freebie requests and cannot keep up, run out of stock quickly or in some cases I’ve heard of visitors receiving the sample box but the sample having been taken from inside! I guess everyone likes a free sample

8 ) Make sure they are available in your area – whilst some samples clearly state they are available in the United States, Australia, etc some don’t make mention of where they will send them too and also sometimes they are only available in a few states. If you read the About Us / Contact Us section of the particular site it should at least tell you where they are located and you can always contact them to ask if the sample is available in your area if unknown.

9) Following on from in my original post on using free email providers rather than your work and private email addresses to request samples is a really good idea to avoid filling your professional email with emails. Beyond Hotmail and Gmail, Ryan from HeyItsFree also has some great suggestions for free email address providers to use in your sign up information. This allows you to seperate your freebie requests from your professional life.

If you have any other tips and suggestions you use for obtaining freebies online let us know.

If you are a shopaholic like me than this is a dream come true – wholesale clothes at heavily discounted prices. What better way to pick up some bargains for yourself or for loved ones for Christmas.

Apparel Show Room ships clothing and accessories worldwide and have a huge selection of Tops, Pants, Jeans, Skirts, Dresses, Bags, etc of sizes from XS to 4x.

Here is a sample of a few of the great buys.

How cool is this top for $3.75 each!

And $4.75 each for these dresses

Click here to browse their wide range at great prices

Note: If you wonder why when you checkout the shopping cart the price is higher it is because most items have a minimum order amount as they are wholesale prices. You have to buy a few of the same thing or purchase for friends.

If you know of any more sites like this I’d love to know – this is better than eBay!

I’ll keep this post short and sweet with a few great freebie sites you should bookmark (if you haven’t already) and add to your regular freebie reading fix.

Hey It’s Free – Ryan has been a long supporter of FSD and he runs a great freebie site which you can visit here.

Free Sample Forager – Dave and his lovely wife Tiff are also loyal supporters of FSD and I’m also happy to recommend their terrific freebie site to you. Click here to visit their site.

Another upcoming freebie site run by a husband and wife team is a great little place called Free Stuff Finder. You can visit them by clicking here.