Free* stuff online.

Ever see an ad in the top right of the screen saying FREE* Ipod nano. Not true at all, these ads are quite popular on the web and you will find them everywhere. Some of them even talk which can be really annoying.

If you have the program ABP however they are easily blocked and you will never have to deal with them again. ABP meaning ad block plus is a firefox add-on that I have previously talked about.

The catch to these so called "free" things are one of two things. Running in circles, I don't mean literally but clicking after clicking after clicking. It never stops and never seems to end. Or they require you to sign up for a bunch of spam give you the work around deal and at the very bottom of the page it says you have to do one silver offer, two platinum offers, and one gold offer.

What this means is you have to actually subscribe to the "offers" in order to get what you want. Now wether this is legitimate or not, I don't have a clue. I have heard of people signing up for the "offers" and getting what they want as long as they unsubscribe after the trial period is up. But what happens if you forget you've signed up, they charge you. You get overdrafted then you have to deal with what seems to be your worst nightmare.

Truth is it's not free as long as it says FREE* it's a pure give away that you have to pay/subscribe for something in order to get it. If you even get it at all. The whole point of writing this post was because I wanted to order FREE* prints online of photos, there is one small catch though. Not a really bad one but it's something they should tell people before hand. You have to pay shipping and handling. On dot photo it was in the $3.00 range. You get 50 free prints.

On shutterfly however you only get 25 free prints but it's 1$ cheaper. I guess it depends on how much money you'd like to spend. At the moment though due to not having a job, and the poor economy, gas prices on the rise as well as many other things i'm going to pinch every penny I can.