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Dominos Pizza ended the "30 Minutes or it's Free" guarantee, in the 1980s, after a delivery driver killed a woman trying to meet the time constraint.
If you buy a Volvo through their Overseas Delivery Program, you will receive 2 free round-trip tickets to Sweden, which includes airport pickup + a luxury hotel. Then you'll get 2 weeks to explore Europe in the car and Volvo pays for the insurance, after which they ship your car to you for free
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France tried stop Amazon offer free shipping to its customers by fining them €1,000 per day. Amazon continued to pay the fines instead of ending its policy of offering free shipping. After law was created banning free shipping, Amazon effectively snubbed it by charging one cent for delivery.
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If you buy a Volvo through their Overseas Delivery Program, you will receive 2 free round-trip tickets to Sweden to test-drive your car (includes airport pickup/luxury hotel). Then you'll have 2 weeks to explore Europe in the car (they pay insurance). Volvo then ships your car to you for free
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If you live in the UK and buy a device from Apple that becomes defective within SIX years of the date of delivery. Apple by law must replace/repair/exchange the goods for free. This also applies to other maufacturers
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The standard marketing practices of money-back guarantees, traveling salesmen, self-service, free delivery, and buy one get one free deals were all pioneered by Josiah Wegdwood, an 18th Century pottery salesman.
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About Sulagitti Narasamma, who performed over 15,000 deliveries for free with no medical facilities
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If you buy a Volvo through their Overseas Delivery Program, you receive 2 round trip tickets to Sweden to take delivery of the car, a night in a hotel in Gothenburg, and cover upto 15 days of insurance to explore Europe in your car. And then they ship it back to you, free of cost.
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If you buy a Volvo through their Overseas Delivery Program, you will receive 2 free round-trip tickets to Sweden to test-drive your car (includes airport pickup/luxury hotel). Then you'll have 2 weeks to explore Europe in the car (they pay insurance). Volvo then ships your car to you for free.
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Amazon was forced to start charging 1 cent for delivery in France to get around laws against free shipping
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The USPS offers a free service where they email you digital images of the mail they are going to deliver. its called informed delivery and its a byproduct of their sorting technology.
Kozmo.com, a company that promised free 1-hour delivery of products, food, and Starbucks coffee by bicycle in major US cities. It went out of business in 2001 after the Dotcom bubble burst. - source
