San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Action Line Column: There's No Such Thing As `Free' Merchandise
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By Dennis Rockstroh, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 17--I've said this for years.   Now the Better Business Bureau has issued a warning: free doesn't mean free anymore.
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Viacom is looking to dump Blockbuster, but that doesn't mean that you should elect to do the same.
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Former MP3 impresario Michael Robertson tells CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos why "free" need not be a dirty word.
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By San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 2
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Peace on Earth? Not between these two retailers.
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By Thomas Ginsberg, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 9--Pleading hasn't worked. Freebies ultimately fail. Outright pressure can backfire.
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There's no such thing as a free lunch. And soon, there may be no such thing as an ad-free RSS feed, either, as publishers add advertisements to their feeds in hopes of making money through the popular content-aggregating technology. By Cyrus Farivar.
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The FreeiPods.com website looks as phony as a $3 bill. In fact, it's at the forefront of performance-based marketing, as advertisers discover it's more effective to spend $50 million on gifts than to blow the cash on TV ads. By Leander Kahney.
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When 'free' isn't free An online advertiser that falsely claimed consumers had won free prizes has agreed to pay a $200,000 penalty to the Federal Trade Commission, which says the outfit failed to disclose that people had to spend money first.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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Blog: A San Francisco Craigslist posting offers to divert peoples' attention so others can cut in front of them in line.
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By By Bob Cuddy, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep.
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By Sam Lagrone, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 9--On a recent trip to my local game-monger, I noticed something odd  in the window: PlayStation 3s for sale.   No line, no hysteria, no clawing, no unwashed people waiting for days.
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Tycho:  We put Monday's strip up early, so you might have seen it already - but you might not be familiar with the EGM interview it is based on, an excerpt of which appears here.  I sometimes worry about appearing partisan in these communiques, but it is not my job to be fair.  I'm not a journalist, I'm a consumer.  I don't buy one product from each company in the interests of some karmic ideal, and I don't need to purge my posts of wrongthink because I haven't produced something suitable for use as a press release.  Sony is grinding down their goodwill with every smug, psychotic interview, and someone needs to tell them so in clear terms.
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How to steer clear of "free checking" pitfalls.
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By Sarah Jane Tribble, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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It says subscription fees can't outweigh potential ad revenue from increased traffic to a free site.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - Customers picking up the latest MP3 players this fall are getting much more than just a device. Increasingly, they're getting free music as well.