submitted on February 12, 2009 by Tarun in "Buxr Website / Contests"
Does anyone else get a bit annoyed with those? Since technically they're not freebies because you have to pay to receive the item, lately it seems like they've been dominating the frontpage of the freebies section.
The answer to your question is yes. Right now anything with $0 price tag (including Free After Rebate) is labeled as a Freebie. The question is, should a product that requires shipping fee qualify.
Using the Current Logic: If you have to pay money, then it is not truly free. (Shipping Counts) However, this means that such items would qualify for a $10 prize, correct? In short, my opinion is that they should be removed from the "freebie" listing tab. Merchants only use such a setup as a ploy to gain attention, they could just as easily charge for the item and offer free shipping, but for some reason people get excited the other way around.
I think that they CAN go in the freebie's section as long as shipping is clearly labeled. If the offer is accurately described then it is easy to skip over and avoid if you are not interested in those types of freebies. The same goes for free after rebate deals, which also happen to be color coded.
If you think the offer is truely of no value or a ploy, you can down vote it. The default on Buxr is to hide deals that have 2 down votes.
http://www.buxr.com/freebies - Setting it to show all, including those that expired there'll be three listed (at the time of this post). Just the other day there were about five listed there if I recall correctly.
I agree with Mike. It is fairly easy to skip "non-free" freebies in the list and having them in the list helps those members who target Free After Rebate items. This especially helps since we don't allow filtering/sorting by price (yet).
To answer the question about prizes. We give the reduced prize ($5) to all deals that we can't monetize, regardless of how they are classified according to the dictionaries. We understand their value but we simply can't afford giving bigger prize at this time. Such items include printable coupons (w/o online code), in-store only deals and promotions, and free items. Free after rebate is not truly free and so the prize is $10.
By this logic perhaps we should always consider shipping costs when judging a deal (not to mention sales tax). In my opinion something is not a deal if it costs more after shipping and sales tax, but buxr rules do not take shipping or sales tax into account when judging deals.
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