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Stuart G

(38,726 posts)
Mon Jul 29, 2013, 07:34 PM Jul 2013

One of the Oldest Cons Jobs around...............Free Gift......................

no nothing is free...well.........maybe ...........
.occasionally something is thrown in, but you got to pay for that....I hear about "Free" all the time...on "TV, radio..etc...well, how do they pay for the ads?...............This is the first in a series of cons that are all around us....


The idea of "free" is very interesting. In economics I learned 45 years ago, that really free is when there is so much available ...that there is no cost of any kind involved. Let us say it snows one day...and there are 15 inches on the ground, in addition to 5 that fell a few days before. That snow is a free commodity. ..so much.. no one cares or wants to change it or keep it. You can have all you want to accumulate while it is so available..or that you can accumulate....weeds are another free commodity..you know the stuff in gardens that grows all by itself.... I was in Florida last winter....I could pick up all the shells on the beach that I wanted..no one cared.
there were plenty..

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One of the Oldest Cons Jobs around...............Free Gift...................... (Original Post) Stuart G Jul 2013 OP
"... and it's free, just a dollar." Scuba Jul 2013 #1
that is correct.. just a dollar....??? is a dollar free...????? Stuart G Jul 2013 #2

Stuart G

(38,726 posts)
2. that is correct.. just a dollar....??? is a dollar free...?????
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 05:40 AM
Jul 2013

a dollar is still a dollar...

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