When you send freebies do you expect a reply?

billboat

Am I the only one that wants to hear from the recipient? Not talking about a sale--just a "thought you'd like this" kind of gift. Mainly YNs that I've tried to give a little extra to--or am I old fashioned in expecting some sort of response?

mgoodm3

A reply would be nice.

stujoe

I think there is no doubt that it would be polite for the recipient to respond with a thank you and acknowledgement. Our society is not always as polite as it should be, though.

Zulan

I always try to reply. As I have told my kids time and time again, politeness is the grease our society slides along on.

JrGMan2004

I pretty much always send at least a Thank You PM... And sometimes also a public Thank You on the Forums... I've also tried to give back too, by having my own giveaways and sending little things to other forum members...

XpipedreamR

A thank you is alway nice. You might call it "common courtesy."

susanlynn9

A thank you is always nice, but I have learned not to expect it. We oftentimes include a freebie or provide free shipping for our repeat customers. I think in the 100 times we've done this, we've received 1 thank you. But I did notice that those customers come back over and over again and tend to purchase more than one item. That in itself is a type of thank you. Sometimes you just have to take what you can get.

AuldFartte

A "thank you" is always appropriate, at the least.

I sent a bunch of old copper coins to a lady so she could give them to YN's at some coin shows, and I had to e-mail her about 3 times to even find out if she got them. It's just rude to NOT send an acknowledgement of some kind.

relayer

If you send me free coins, I'll say Thank You!

Stuart

Common courtesy would dictate that one should thank another for a smooth completed transaction, and even more so if they included a freebie with the shipment...

ksteelheader

I've probably given away over a hundred items to people on these forums, and have only once not recieved a thank you! And, that was by a high post count person whom you would think would be the first to say thanks!

Baley

In an ideal world, they would reply to a freebie with a "thank you" and be inclined to "pass it forward"

however, the world being what it is, sometimes you get a "whatever"

mtnman

I recently sent one of the board members young daughter a group of coins and got a wonderful letter back
from her. It's responses like hers that makes me want to keep helping the young collectors.

ddbird

I always send a thank you PM when I recieve anything from board members...bought or freebies. Its not alot, considering they went out of thier way to do something nice. I should prob. write them a personal thank you letter, but I normally just drop em a thank you PM. Not old fashioned at all...I still have to call women "mam". Even though they get offended up where I live now!

Betta285

As a YN myself, i always try to say thank you for anything i recieve, freebie or not. If i haven't thanked you for something i've recieved please remind me

jim