Everybody loves free product samples and there are several companies who offer such freebies. To the companies, they use the free sample as a bait to get new customers and establish their brands in the markets. But to us, the consumers, there are several benefits we reap by having the free samples given to us. Below are some of the benefits that we get as consumers from using the different free samples available.
No money spent
As consumers, we virtually don’t spend any money to get the free product samples. All we need is to give our basic information which majorly includes email and the mailing addresses to enable the company deliver the items to us. If we have to spend money, then it will be at subsidized rates because we will be using a coupon given by the promoting company. The free samples thus reduce our expenditures on the particular items.
Different varieties to test
Due to the fierce competitions that exist between the various companies, almost every manufacturer is striving to offer free sample products to their consumers. We thus have the opportunity to sample different products from various manufactures and judge them based on their usefulness to us. This enables us to make clear and more informed decisions while finally buying the products.
Buy the most suitable items
By having the free product samples, we get the chance to test various products for their suitability for our consumption. If we are pleased with the performance of a given product, we go ahead and purchase it. This saves us the time, energy and effort that we would have wasted in buying a product and spending money on an item that would offer us little or no value.
Though these benefits exists when we go for the free product samples, we should not be blind to the fact not all the free samples are good for us. It is upon us to do our due diligence and sift out the useless samples that can end up hurting us. We should also watch out for scammers that might attempt to get sensitive data from us without delivering anything of real value.