Are offers like do this and get a "Free laptop" really free?

Question

Have you actully gotten a prize from filling out offers?

Answer 1

No they scams

Answer 2

Except then you're more likely to skip out on regular checkups which are the best way to prevent the expensive procedures later on. Of course there's plenty of reason to want to prevent those expensive procedures other than their cost... Also, it's not free. It's health insurance with premiums that adjust according to your ability to pay, but nothing is anywhere near finalized, so that's based more on what Obama has said he wants rather than any actual bill. I've looked through the bill, but not in great detail. It'll be completely replaced about 3 times before it passes anyway. EDIT: "Up to a limit of course" That's one of the big problems. Health insurance is most important for major illnesses with enormous costs, like if you're diagnosed with cancer or something that requires expensive long term drugs. With your health plan, you would end up paying the full $2500 per year plus anything over the limit, which is enough to bankrupt most people when something tragic happens. And that's if your health insurance company does the right thing and covers you. Many look for reasons to claim it as a preexisting condition or other reasons to avoid paying, leaving you high and dry. Health care costs are by far the single biggest cause of bankruptcy in America. Most people are happy with their health care until they need it and it fails them. Any health insurance company can predict the costs of catestrophicly expensive illness very well and there's no reason for them to need an upper limit. If there is some unforeseeably catastrophic expense, they have reinsurance to cover their costs (like life and property insurance companies needed after 9/11).

Answer 3

I've have not but I've met people that did have them.

It's not "free" actually. You need to complete an offer and refer other people to do so. Compared with the prize of the wished item, the offer is quite small

Answer 4

Nothing is free. . .just for kicks, I clicked on one of those offers. . .you end up going through page after page of filling out forms etc. . .your email address get spread all over cyberspace, so you end up with tons of spam. . .and if you make it through all that, you find out you have tyo buy or subscribe to something to get the so called free item!
Don't go there!!

Answer 5

not always. like oprah gave away "free" cars to everyone in the audience. It turned out they basically had to pay for the car because there was a gift tax. Nothing is ever free. Someone had to pay for it.

Answer 6

Not without paying some sort of cost in some form or another.

And I don't know anyone who's managed to get anything like this really free.

But I suppose its possible... just not very likely.

-dh

Answer 7

They are only free if you sign up for their products they are offering. No, I have never got anything free.

Answer 8

No i havent but then again i never make it to the end of the questions. Just to many. and somewhere thery are always trying to get you to buy something by giving your cc number.

Answer 9

Visit Snopes.com. They check out tons of stuff like this, and if it is a hoax or scam it will probably be listed there.

Answer 10

Too many hoops to jump through, too many details to be attended to, too many provisos for me. I always bail out well before I get in that deep

Answer 11

no, you have to give them your credit card # to get the FREE prize.