Why is everyone taken in by companies FREE offers?

Question

You take out a mobile phone contract and get a FREE phone worth £200 -£300 and are then committed to keep that phone for 12 to 18 months paying £40 a month the real cost of that phone is £480 to £720.

Answer 1

I think the question is: "why isnt anyone doing anything about it?" i.e. our fearless leaders

Answer 2

My wife was paying that sort of money on pay as you go. When she needed a new phone, it worked out cheaper for her to get a contract. There isnt a lot in it.

Personally, I don't have a phone. I would ask "why does everyone need a phone?"
If someone wants to get hold of me, they can use my home phone. If I'm not there, they can try again later.

Answer 3

Whether you buy the phone or its "free" you still have a contract when you get any cell phone service excluding of course the "pay as you go" phones. So why not get the free phone when you sign up?? you're still going to pay 40.00 plus a month either way.

Answer 4

A 1982 avert Omni which gets fifty two mpg, 4 greater desirable than a Prius does. purchase gas from stations promotion synthetic gas content cloth despite if that's categorized gas to liquid (Shell), coal to liquid or sparkling coal. This helps organization's that have equipped Fischer Tropsch synthesis vegetation and despite the fact that the present synthetic gas might nonetheless be from a fossil source (organic gas, or coal), an identical plant can produce gas and diesel from bio-mass with the addition of a bio-mass gasifier. Such vegetation might additionally be waiting to take the output of a photograph voltaic powered H2 and CO producing reactor which includes Sandia Lab's CR5 to apply as feedstock for synthetic gas/diesel. a time-honored previous gas automobile utilising synthetic gas for a bio-mass gasifier is quite greater environmentally friendly then an electric powered automobile as fairly some the bio-mass carbon could be sequestered with the ash byproduct subsequently it could be carbon detrimental while the suitable that an electric powered automobile could desire to ever be if recharged from photograph voltaic panels is carbon independent subsequently in no way paying decrease back the carbon footprint of that's manufacture. subsequently by skill of actively advertising bio-mass synthetic fuels it extremely is extremely authentic gas and diesel, your previous 1982 avert Omni will do something that an electric powered motor vehicle could desire to no longer do, get rid of CO2 from the ambience and it would not in simple terms be your very own greater powerful than a Prius automobile doing it yet each and every automobile even the SUV's which you would be enlisting to "save the Earth".

Answer 5

I took my contract out eight years ago at £10 per month,50 free min. a day plus 750 text per month.I still have this as it is cheaper to buy a new phone than take out a new contract.

Answer 6

Because they are thick.Just read some of the questions and answers on yahoo, now, that is thick

Answer 7

I think they overlook those little details in the excitement of getting something free! free! free!

Answer 8

cause the idea that we are getting something free when we are actually not, but we think we are so we jump in with both feet!

Answer 9

Greed...we are all looking for something for nothing..I think the Golden Rule is " If if looks to good to be true..then it is too good to be true."
We have to use our common sense with these and similar offers...

Answer 10

You say to yourself - 'I'll never do that again!' - but, you do. It is a case of avoiding anybody selling bargains, unless, it is something that you definitely need.