Top Tips for Obtaining Free Samples

In December last year I wrote a post on the Top 6 Tips and Tricks for Safely Obtaining Free Stuff Online.

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.

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