Free Sample but Pay for Postage? What Do You Think?

Well the shipping cost include a pacaging cost, labour etc. so I would expect company to charge the exact cost of the stamp but if I'm honest I rarely pay P&P for samples

Nevertheless their full hand cream cost £12 for 50ml, which makes your samples worth about £4.80 for 4x20ml, and they look quite cute in those small tubes. Although you probably could get much bigger amount of some basic hand cream for similar price so I do hope you love the cream and you end up thinking that it was worth it after all

I don't bother with freebies at all, can't be doing with giving bank details to all and sundry for postage.

I don't pay postage for freebies. To me if you are paying postage then it isn't a true freebie, but that is just me. Like Marlena says, it costs more than just the cost of the stamp to send them out.

I don't ever pay for freebies. I think it probably is still an ok deal but some "freebies" charge a lot more for P&p which makes them a bad deal. I'd never give out my bank details unless it was a company I was planning on buying from anyway. Ps. I also avoid subscription type freebies as I've heard a lot of people have had trouble cancelling them.

I think samples should be free, because they are promotion items for the company and makes u try the brand and if the products good you will buy them. Paying 2.50 for an item is not great because u can get 2 shower gels or more from the price....I saw this once before Beautybible charge £30 for postage and than they trow or the expensive products in an envelope and the whole post cost them maximum £3.50. I was shocked. I mean why these companies lie. Just need to tell that we charge a fee for the samples, products and not for delivery.

On this occasion because you’ve got a few little bottles I don’t think it’s too bad, but if it’s advertised as a freebie then obviously it should be free. I rarely bother with them anymore though because there was a period where there was a lot of this and me just being me I wouldnt pay for it x

I never accept freebies with postage and delivery/packaging as i only accept ones for free shipping

im not really in when there is P&P hehehe just love the freebie as in totally free.. !

No,if they say free but pay p&p they should then charge you more than it costs to post xx

It's my opinion that if the cost of post and package is more than is reasonable - then the thing offered is not free. It's often just a method of SELLING a cheap product to the gullible. Companies genuinely wanting to promote a product will usually keep any P&P charge as low as possible.

Well, they give you something, you give them something.

Thank you guys! Wow really diverse opinions - on one hand it's true that the word freebie itself excludes paying, but on the other hand, I would rather pay a small charge to try a new product and then decide if I want to buy it (instead of buying full size and then end up been disappointed and binning it)...

But in this case I felt like it is more appropriate to be advertised as 'testers', as you guys said it is definitely not a freebie by definition and the 'postage' thing doesn't make it look too good.