I have to admit when I saw those as freestuff, I was a bit miffed...I had purchased them when they first came out. It does give a bad feeling in the pit of your stomach knowing that not long before you threw out the bucks for what is now being given away.

However, it is also a good way to stop merchants from ever giving away or reducing the price on their products if we bitch about it every time they do a reduction or giveaway. I guess we just need to suck it up and move on. If you see a product you like, you have a choice.. buy it now because you like it or need it,,,or you can wait with the expectation that at some point in time it will go on sale or will be given away. You  may be waiting a long time

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854