People who can afford all the things getting it for free!

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I know I am just jealous but does it wind anyone else up when you see celebs being gifted free products, holidays, meals etc?

Doesn't sit right the people who can afford it get if for free and then try and sell it to the people who can't afford it!

I know I am being unreasonable but just wondered if it bugged anyone else!

Influencers wearing a free Sezanne cardigan are very different to eg Eric Clapton wearing a Rolex. Clapton hasn’t been given a free £20k watch to wear, he’s also been paid a very large sum to exclusively wear Rolex watches in public, and likely appear in some in-store advertising and do a private event or two for them. I do a lot of those deals at work (on behalf of the talent). They are extremely lucrative- well beyond the free car / watch / booze and it’s surprising how much money even modest “stars” can earn if they’re giving a brand something exclusive (filmed content or a meet & greet or private performance). In return the talent has to accept some restrictions and obligations on their conduct ( talent required to return a car when caught drink driving is an obvious one)

That’s not advertising to tell people they sell school shoes - as you say, everyone knows that. It’s advertising to convince people to buy their shoes not someone else’s.

An attractive influencer with pretty children makes an excellent spokesperson for that sort of advertising.

And it works or they wouldn’t keep doing it.

For some of them that's their only pay - I believe this happens with models - they are given clothes from the shoot not pay, but expected NOT to sell them on! So sometimes it's actually exploitation and money saving for the brands.

Does she pass on any of the free stuff to you?

Not yet but mainly because she doesn’t really live anywhere, travels a lot. But when I see her in London I plan to take a few bits off her hands!

lol! Best of luck. Nothing like a few freebies 😀

Why do you think it’s odd?

If I do a post or posts for a brand, it’ll take me maybe 2-3 hours of effort. And I get paid for that - not always in cash but often with the products in the photos I share.

It’s literally just making an advert for a company. That’s all. Nothing odd about it.

Totally agree. I follow a woman on Instagram, who is obviously very well off, go on multiple holidays a year, etc etc. and she’s just been away courtesy of Tui 🤣
like fuck me, I’m skint, give it to us who are working their arses to the bone in real life jobs ffs and can’t afford to go on holiday!

I think influencers getting free clothing, products for advertising and paid is such an odd job.

I think it's odder that people follow them and need help styling a grey t-shirt with a pair of jeans 😆

But why would they 🤣

Why follow them?

I mean you’ve answered your own question. She gets free stuff and you follow her 🤷‍♀️

That's a good point, actually. I bet all those influencers aren't declaring their freebies as payment in kind - which they should.

Manon lagreve has been doing constant ads more recently

But you wouldn’t be a good advertisement. It’s about getting more business for the company. Don’t follow if it upsets you

Even worse when it’s Temu/Shein crap. Probably fit for the bin anyway. You see lots of minor celebs modelling them.

It’s not gifts as much as advertising, I have no problem, even if I try to ignore that as a mechanism.

i do think it’s easier to procure free things when you actually have the funds to support it in the first place.

Like there’s been times where I have spent money, had issues with the transaction and have been able to keep the money and the item. Or great gifts with purchases. Some companies even just give you freebies or randomly send you things. Like I tend to get free M&S items quite often.

Or like sometimes I go into cafes/restaurants, order and am about to pay, then I get a “random act of kindness” where staff insist I don’t have to pay. I’d obviously have not been given that, if I had no funds to initiate the transaction anyway.

In terms of celebrities getting free things, the truth is their marketing of the free item makes so much revenue for the company that it’s one of the most profitable marketing techniques. It’s actually more that the celebrity is doing the company a favour as opposed to benefiting that much from the free stuff. that one free item could easily convert into significant sales figures. So free stuff is not about helping the poor, it’s just about companies lining their pockets.

I deleted my instagram page last year as I was fed up of seeing influencers promoting items/holidays that were so far out of many people’s price range even with their special promo codes! Holidays for thousands of pounds that are probably my whole take home for the year etc.
There is a huge difference from advertising a £3 cleaning product I can get in the supermarket to a holiday cruise over £10,000. Just seemed very tone deaf at a time when so many including myself are struggling with bills and food prices rising.
I avoid many of these companies that advertise this way.

Obviously i am very aware that its these influencers job, I am just jealous that im not interesting enough to be an influencer 😂

Yeah I recently updated my instagram algorithm - it’s much nicer to use.

My feed is golden retrievers, art and interior design. I didn’t mind having influencer-centric content visible before, but now it’s just constant happiness/wholesome content.

The instagram algorithm is weird though, more than any sm I feel it pushes weird things designed to make you feel strongly. Earlier in the year it was showing things clearly banned from the platform like gore/crime etc, loads of people complained online but it still took them days to sort it.

I have never received anything free from M&S or had a cafe give me a free coffee.

I don’t follow any ‘influencers’ so don’t know how I would feel. It’s just a form of advertising I guess. I do sometimes covet those celeb goodie bags at the Oscars etc however.

But no sum of money or freebies would make it worthwhile for me to have to state that my job was an ‘influencer’!

There is a lot of confusion going on here. Brands often give celebrities free stuff as they want their product associated woth a famous person. It's just advertising.

A lot of people will have jobs with gets them free stuff. It is common for jobs to offer group private health care plans, I get it in my fairly ordinary middle manangement job. As people say it is offered as part of the slalary package.

Mt Monkey is a runner and works for a running shoe company, he gets the latest versions of their shoes for free as they want him to be able to talk knowledgeably about the shoes to customers.

A friend of mine works for a well known museum, they get free entry in to loads of exhibitions at museums and galleries in the UK and abroad.

Why do you automatically assume being a celebrity means they have money? Bit judgemental but I i prasume it is ok because the 'rich' are just some collective?