I thought free meant free!

Excuse me for the rant, but I just answered an email from (no I am not going to mention any names), and since this is the third or fourth type I have looked at recently, I decided it is finally time to vent a little bit.  You may have seen this tactic also.  You get an email telling you about some cool product that says if you act quickly, we will give it to you for free.  You click the link,  and are taken to a sales letter.  It talks about the product and says it is $xx.xx but you can get it here free if you opt in to a list.  Once you opt in, you are taken to another sales letter that offers the product FOR A PRICE!  The one I am ranting about doesn’t even seem to offer the product mentioned in the first email.  I don’t know about you, but personally I would NOT take advantage of the offer, regardless of how good it seemed.  That just seems to be mis-leading and could get the originator in trouble with the FTC.  Just my humble opinion.

Have fun!