Talk:Product sample/Archives/2013

Cut from article

I removed the above content from the article as unencyclopedic - if someone wishes to incorporate it in a more appropriate way, I'm sure some content could be merged, but it all appears to be original research anyway. -GTBacchus^(talk) 20:53, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, this could be moved to Wiktionary or merged into an article on marketing. I mean, really, how far can this article be expanded?--WilliamThweatt 03:36, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

There might be a fair amount of industry history, about the use of free sample marketing, but there might not. At this point, it's not much of an article. I just added a link from Sales promotion and put this article in that subcategory. Maybe that will help bring it attention from someone knowledgable about marketing. -GTBacchus^(talk) 04:07, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Not about food

The concept of a "free sample" isn't specific to food products; it's a general marketing strategy. I've gotten free samples of household and personal care products in the mail, and my doctor and veterinarian also hand out free product samples they get from manufacturers for that purpose. Can somebody please expand and generalize this article? Dr.frog 22:23, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Sample fraud?

Does anybody have any references about how product samples are sometimes not representative of the product for sale? For example, the individually-wrapped twinings fruit tea bags you find in hotels etc are different from the actual product you can buy in a box. First.. they have a tag advertising their brand on a piece of string attached to the tea bag.. obviously to increase brand awareness and most importantly the flavours are much richer in the individually wrapped tea bags. I imagine this could be a similar situation with other foods.. such as cheeses, alcoholic beverages etc? where only the highest grade and richest produce are used in samples.. while the actual product may be lower grade and inferior.