I guess that is all it takes for you to hop on board....Free stuff!!! I know who you vote for......
In this business I look for integrity on top of quality of product, not how much free stuff a company hands out. That "free" stuff is written off as advertising, so really, just suckers like @caregiverken think this is free stuff. lol. I like you Ken, but wtf? Please be a little more respectful next time.
Without getting into the reps behavior you find disagreeable, & I haven't read any posts that Ken wrote that you don't agree with. Strictly being logical here...
I don't see how giving away free samples is a bad thing. If it was a crap product, they probably wouldn't be handing it out for people to try. I'm not saying it's a great product, I've not tried it. But if their product was good, they would want to get it into the hands of as many people as possible, to create avenues for repeat sales. If it was crap, you would want as few people to try it for free as possible. Cable co's give you free premium channels for a while hoping you will like them & purchase them at full price. They hydro shop throws me freebies of stuff they think I will like, & I become a repeat buyer.
Free in this context means at no cost to the consumer. Many companies, everywhere, do it. Many retailers do it. Most of the
Great White type products I use are freebies the shop throws in. Some of them have been very good. The current GH line I'm using was because they gave me some to try.
Standard advertising for a product this expensive would not be extremely effective. It seems like they would rather spend their money getting it into people's hands & let
it do the talking.
I realize this probably sounds confrontational, I honestly don't mean it to be. But you seem to be basing the quality of the product on a common business practice. Really the only way to tell the quality of the product is to try it...no? The product may be shite, but I wouldn't call it snake oil until I'd tried it.
Whether or not it's worth the price, I wouldn't know until I tried it either. Initially, I thought a bottle was $1,100 which I found a bit suspect. But they sell smaller bottles, I don't know how far they go though.
I don't see how the samples thing says anything about the product. I gotten plenty of free samples that were great products. It seems like you are judging the product based on how they choose to spend their advertising dollars...no?