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Freebie vs. For Review: What's the Difference?

February 16, 2010 by diannejacob

kitchenscaleA blogger thought she got a product for free, then was asked to return it. On a listserv, she wrote:

“A PR person contacted me, representing a large cookware store. ‘If they could do anything for me…let them know.’ I told them I was testing bread cookbooks and could use a scale. If they could work somemagic on that end…great!

“The response I got was a link to their entire kitchen scale inventory and was told [Read more…] about Freebie vs. For Review: What's the Difference?

Filed Under: Ethics, Food Blogging Tagged With: food writing, freebies, writing reviews

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