Can I have some free money? I'm looking for some good customers to sell to and have burned out by scam artists and make-shift reviewers that e-mail me 5-10 times a day, with 3 subscribers - they all feel they deserve free stuff. Perhaps you could send some free money my way and I will sell stuff to you.
We give out tons of free samples, products, and hold many contests through various outlets. There is a difference between marketing and waste. The issue isn't not giving out samples, it's about refusing samples to the cheapskates who
buy $3.00 worth of product and want $16.00 worth free. Or even worse the people who I've never heard of or seen from who expect me to send them half my product line to see if they like it.
You could defend your stance on why you think you deserve free stuff until you're blue in the face, but until Walmart starts giving me free tractors and lawn equipment on the premise that I might like it and
buy something in the future, I'm going to disregard the spam e-mail that internet scam artists send to 100 different vendors in a day, hoping to score something free.
It takes money, obviously, because buying 500 sets of a product to import for resale is free right? And you deserve it all because you might, someday in the future, spend a dollar and expect me to sell my soul for it? It's a ridiculous concept.