Can free.com be trusted?

Microcontrolled

There is a saying, "Nothing in life is free", so how do these guys operate?

http://free.com/

Come on, to have a domain name that is in the top search results for the most popular searched word it has to have some integrity. So, can it be trusted?

Martin_H

Obviously there's a catch to the free offers, but there's the following low probability:
http://xkcd.com/570/

Their links redirect you to other sites. So my guess is the other sites are paying them for click through and they don't offer any of those items. One of the sites they link too (myrewardsvault) is known for offering free things if you give up tons of personal information and then not delivering saying the offer isn't available in your country.

mctrivia

many of these free things do work. However they almost always want you to:

1) Give up a tone of your personal information
2) buy something cheap(say 6 dvds for 1 cent each then another 6 at regular price)
3) get 10 of your friends to sign up

think about it. they get $70 to $90 off you and 10 friends that is $1000 for which they probably only pay out $20-$40 for the disks. they give you something free that is worth a quarter of that and you convince all your other friends it is a great idea. problem is not all your friends can fool 10 people into forking out there money so the 20-50 people you end up telling all end up with a bunch of over priced DVDs.

HollyMinkowski

I have a gut feeling that you should stay away
from this site....it looks like it was created by
grifters to me.

You would be better off scouring ebay for good
buys than jumping through hoops trying to get
stuff for free.