The Free Cell Phone Headset That Costs $3.94
With the new year, lawmakers are coming back to work. Passing laws, all over the place. Including the ever-more-popular no-holding-a-cell-phone-in-your-hand-while-driving laws. The Texas legislature may go in that direction this year. This will cause more cell phone owners to scramble for hands-free devices.
So here comes this press release about “free” hands-free headsets for your cell phone. Free, not counting the $3.94 “shipping and handling” charge.
An offer to get something “free, just pay shipping and handling” always makes me wonder what’s going on. Usually it’s an offer for a second free Ginsu carving knife, to slice tomatoes razor-thin. Or for a free sample of, what do you call them? Memory pills! That’s it.
The “free” headset deal is from freeheadsets.org. In spite of the .org on the website, this is NOT a non-profit organization. It’s owned by a company called Casslin Data Systems based in San Diego. So we figure Matt MacAdams, the owner, is making a little something on each headset.
Most cell phones these days come with hands-free devices included by the manufacturer. But a lot of people toss them in the trash along with the box and the packing material and the owner’s manual. So when a law gets passed requiring hands-free cell phone use while driving, these folks have to go buy one.
And $3.94 is probably not a bad deal for a wired headset. The website makes it easy for technophobes to figure out which headset they need for their particular phone.
(But you won’t catch me ordering one. I got one of those Motorola $9.95-after-rebate Bluetooth specials at Radio Shack on Black Friday. And there is no freebluetooth.org - I checked.)
freeheadset.org, Casslin Data Systems, Matt MacAdams, hands-free cell phone use, Bluetooth, Motorola, Radio Shack
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