re: Acer Ferrari laptop giveaway

Lutful Karim gufran — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:39:16 GMT

cant i get one? :(

re: Acer Ferrari laptop giveaway

Rob Farley — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:42:18 GMT

Yeah, I figure I'm entitled to be both jealous and congratulatory.

re: Acer Ferrari laptop giveaway

Alun Jones — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:05:44 GMT

American law says, IIRC (and IANAL), that unsolicited goods through the mail are yours to keep and do with as you please.

I guess some of the nay-sayers will tell you that celebrities are known to be biased in what they hawk - and of course, so are bloggers. The trick is to know what bias your chosen blogs have.

Frankly, when I get free stuff, I say "thank you", I play with it, and if I like it, I write good things about it; if I don't like it, I write bad things about it and give it away or return it. I may even say "this is a great thing, but I wouldn't pay the money they're asking for it".

This is no different from magazines and newspapers, who are given freebies for review purposes - usually they are allowed to keep the review freebies.

I think you can discern bias from reading the blog, regardless of whether the blogger received freebies or not.

Now, of course, if the freebie was unrelated to the review product - "write a review about our product while you're on this free cruise" - you could get reasonably upset.

Me, if I'd received a Ferrari, I'd be giving it to a deserving computer user - my wife, say, or the company she works for. It'd be entirely coincidence that this is the same company I work part-time for. :-)