When is free really free?

I received an e-mail earlier today offering a $189 product for free.

Yes!!! You heard right. F.R.E.E (their words exactly, in the e-mail “giving away everything
he knows for F.R.E.E.” as a matter of fact oh, I do like this font … and anyway back to the reason for this blog posting …

Once I get to the download page it asks for mailing, e-mail and other information – including your CC info for a $1.00 processing fee LOL!!! digital is about as automatic a delivery system as there will ever be – and other than bandwidth and hosting – but space on the Internet is relatively cheap ~ so not usually an issue.

So – back to my question: When is free really free? Even if it doesn’t cost you any money – how many sites offer “free” {fill in the blank~with chosen free digital thing} but to get the thing, we had to enter our e-mail address. If one must give something to get something else – it isn’t free …

… and then I got a link to an awesome site: DomainingMindMap I have been in sore need of just this type thing. Even going so far as to have voiced that *I need for a mind map on domaining* I don’t know when the MindMap was completed and posted, but it came along exactly when I needed and was ready for it.

Great ~ it’s another day Our community HOA (home owners association) meeting was last night – and I’m on the board – so, when ya gotta go… ya gotta go and after typing and sending out notes (waiting on go ahead to post to our website) Need to know how much of our *legal* issue to post, can be posted … etc. I’d say freedom of information act, it should be available to all who ask for it. Anyway, the judgments have always been in our favor and that’s why it has cost the resident so much, and will cost a lot more, but that’s been his choice the entire time.

Enough already – pay what you have cost this community and walk your dog on a lease when not on your property … period. Oh, and don’t kill people.

And then we are back to the question of “When is free really free?”

I guess that is one of the good things about living in a deed restricted neighborhood. We all have a set of rules we must follow and one of which is that dog’s must be leashed when not on ones own private property. In this instance we are free to live where we choose to as long as we can live by the rules … or at least when told repeatedly by legal opinion (gosh that get’s expensive – huh?) … and then to offer what was offered you about six(?) seven(?) years ago … LOL!!! Really almost rolling on the floor laughing Thank’s I needed that

I started this blog with the question of when is free really free? I’d love to know your opinion … what do you think?

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