Should We Remove Free Sample Posts at the Companies Request?
Last night I posed a question on Facebook after finding a comment from a company asking us to remove their free sample posting we made. I thought it would be a good discussion point, but I took some heat from it. People are passionate about their feelings, I respect that, however it gets tricky.
Especially on the internet.
Personally I think it’s a silly request to ask of after they have offered the sample for over 2 years… and really just a silly request in general. The free sample offer is from Bragg Health and they asked us to remove the post since they are “a small company”. I get that part, but they can also limit how many they send each month…day…year.. etc.
I turned to our Facebook community and got pretty mixed responses as if I should remove it or not.
My decision is not to remove the post. However I will not be mentioning it again on this website or our Facebook page. I think that is fair on both sides.
This will protect them from getting a ‘blast’ of new submissions, but also allowing our readers to find their offer on our site.
What do you think?
Really I think the best way for a site to prevent this sort of thing is offer a maximum amount of samples then REMOVE the offer themselves. Below you can answer our poll:
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I agree with you on this one. And as a side note I have requested their sample about a year ago and have never received it.
I think I have an addiction to free samples… but if they’re not able to handle the response or are not that eager for my buisness they don’t need to waste my time or theirs. However why do they offer the free sample to begin with if they don’t expect people to request it and grow their customer base. I’m confused.
They can always state the amount of samples they are giving or just say out for the month or another period of time. Nobody is stopping them from making their internal control on product sampling.
I’m with you on this one. The way the samples are comming which is few in the last 4-5 months, been mostly “LIKE” for free samples. I have asked for samples from this Bragg Co. and just like Karen said, I never received mine either. I totally agree with a small company stating they have so many samples to send…but larger companies should be thrilled to send out as many as they can, but nooo, their not doing that anymore either, and hopefully you get a sample thats not so small that you can’t see it, taste it, use it….How can you determine if you like that product if they don’t give a regular size sample? For instance: perfume, most of the time its some dried out cotton swab, or lotion that you get with only enuff in it for the top of 1 hand, whats up with that? Sorry, just venting here. I’m not a Face Bookie and don’t want to be. I don’t want to “LIKE” in order to get a dried out sample! Or by the time I get where I’m going “they say there are no more samples at this time”…or play a game to “receive” a sample only to be told…I did not win!
It’s in the company’s right to limit the amount of samples but they should be happy for the free advertising from blogs such as yours. I don’t understand why they wouldn’t want that.
The request from the company really does not make any sense. Did they hire someone to google all the sites that list their sample offer and have them write a nasty-gram? Their time would be better spent hiring someone to come up with some unique ideas for marketing and growing their “small business.” Why didn’t they just pull the free sample offer. Usually companies do not have the same sample offer for 2 years. Personally, I would remove the post not because they asked you to, but because I wouldn’t want to have free advertising for an unfriendly company like that. I would make sure to post those reasons for taking it down! How crummy of them. Now they’ve dug themselves into a hole. All of your readers are going to have a very poor impression of their company for their stupidity. If they don’t want to give a free product, then don’t offer one. And even if they don’t have any product to send, who wouldn’t want free advertising (It was positive advertising before, not it sure isn’t)!
Yes, you should remove their product. But it is really kind of strange on their part because they will lose business exposure and also clients. So by you removing them shows that you acknowledge their rights. Your page is awesome … and if they don’t want the business you generate for them, then that shows they must not be a serious company that wants to grow and generate profits.
Why should this site have to remove anything??? Why can’t the company update their own site to state they only have so many free samples, or furthermore, remove the sample all together if they do not have the supplies. They can always turn it “live” later if supplies are available. They took the time to e-mail this site, when they could have spent a little more time and fixed the problem themselves.
I myself, find it very annoying to fill out the entire form, only to find out they are out of free samples, and then leave the entire site. If I would have known ahead of time I may have browsed the site, and who knows, even bought something.
It’s in the company’s right to limit the amount of samples but they should be happy for the free advertising from blogs such as yours. I don’t understand why they wouldn’t want that.
I too never received my sample from Bragg Health….
I find it amusing that they chose the name “Bragg Health”, but they want to limit the amount of bragging….LOLOLOLOLOLOL Go Figure….
They put feel samples up so people who come to their website ON THEIR OWN, whom are already interested in their product can “try before they buy”. Not for a bunch of greedy people who request anything and everything just because it’s FREE regardless of whether they need or want it. The samples are for people who are interested in becoming customers NOT for freebie addicts.
Everyone talks about all the “free” advertising. Puhlease… how many people actually order the product after getting the sample?
They shouldn’t have to pull their sample offer down. Here’s a thought, maybe people should only request what they are actually interested in buying?