Have you noticed how successful companies can be in getting you to make a purchase after being tempted by free stuff online? There would be no other motivation by those companies to offer the freebies stuff than to attract potential buyers of other items. So the free chocolate samples are great, but the hope is that you’ll buy a couple pounds of peanut brittle after you taste it.
When you see a no-cost package to help you make money, assume there will be subsequent offers to sell other services later. The free screensaver may come with a little advertisement, or in downloading the screensaver you must wade through a bunch of ads. The companies would not do so much of this type of promotion if it did not pay off a good return.
Free insurance quotes is another area where free stuff is hoped to lead to a purchase. These are legitimate companies that apparently have the ability to analyze your situation and give you a quote—sometimes from several competing companies—in a matter of minutes.
A final area that I’ve noticed is with some computer software. It is often the case where the free software is useful, but not as good as the full paid version. Then you are offered a better product at a modest fee. If you need to export various file types to pdf format, you’ll need to buy the popular Adobe Acrobat software. That software is not cheap.
But you can get Adobe Reader for free. You can read, save and send pdf files but cannot edit or create them. These are but a few examples of where it is worthwhile to realize that the free stuff is intended to lead to a purchase.