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Ethics and Free Stuff

November 14th, 2006 at 08:01 pm

A couple of freebees have made me think about my ethics.

Shick Intuition. There was a freebee offer for this product a while back. Agree to be an ambassador (or some such thing) and they'll send you razors to give out to your friends. I got them and thought about keeping them all for me. It would have saved me from buying refills for a while. However, I'm keeping one of them and giving the other 5 out (I didn't have one). I was feeling wrong about keeping them all. But this I think "works" me.

There was another freebee a while back that I heard about but decided not to ask for. A charity (health related) had a freebee of address labels. I gather that would do two things - get you on their list and give them the opportunity to hit you up for a donation. I hadn't planned to give to that charity so to take money from a worthy cause seemed wrong. I don't want to add to the overhead when money should be going to help fight the disease. It also made me wonder about the charity and how they used the funds they were given.

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3 Responses to “Ethics and Free Stuff”

  1. janH Says:
    November 14th, 2006 at 08:19 pm 1163535589
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    Sounds to me like you made very good ethical decisions!

  2. threebeansalad Says:
    November 14th, 2006 at 08:21 pm 1163535703
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    Sounds like you're in the ethical "clear" to me. I had an ethical dilemmas of my own recently. I have a pair of slippers that I've worn for ~4 years from a catalog retailer with a great return policy. Mind you, it's not a life time gurantee, but a general "if you're not happy in any way..." type of policy.

    After 4 years of wear, the sole started to come apart from the body of the slipper. I thought about seeing if they'd send me a new pair. I have a feeling they would send a new pair, but couldn't help but wonder if it would be abusing the system. Granted, I'm not happy that they are falling apart, but I got 4 good years out of them!

  3. yummy64 Says:
    November 14th, 2006 at 08:56 pm 1163537790
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    tbean: Maybe send them an email and say you've had them for 4 years and ask them if the state that they are in would be normal wear and tear. I don't know if that would be abusing the system or not but their answer would be interesting and then you could decide.

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