Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Free for Consumers

“This software is useless, it doesn’t help much in protecting the computer from viruses and spywares,” he said. “But it’s free!” the other replied. It sure is commonly heard, isn’t it? Well, we do know that there is no such thing as free, we really do, but still, sometimes we would tend to go crazy over the word ‘free’, sometimes. Personally been through the times whereby one was fooled by the so called illustration purposes on the wallpaper, ended up buying unnecessary item, not forgetting the time being spent on listening to the naggings. We now have the consumers’ right or whatsoever law that is stated in the parliament, which is supposed to protect us, the consumers from being cheated by the businessmen. Come to think of it, do we really know how much they have earned by providing us what we need? We never know, seriously, unless we ourselves are in that particular field too. We wouldn’t realize even if we are already being cheated by purchasing an item which is more expensive. We might of course, when it is way too obvious. Perhaps that’s that, the reason why we are the consumers, pay to avoid from standing under the sun, harvesting. Too many complaints might not do us any good probably. If it is to be continued, not spending money on stuff we are able to get on our own, there’s nothing much we can buy now, can we?