Oversize folks like Oakley are targets of groupie tailors who haunt hotel lobbies, hustling players for work, offering customized freebies to spread their names around.

The system is powered by Google Checkout, and publishers will be able to authenticate users against their own records so that it will be easy to offer extras or freebies via One Pass to existing subscribers.

But while those are all offering freebies of one sort or another to new car buyers, none is biting the bullet by going down the all-inclusive route.

They were so pleased to have Kim gamble, they regularly offered freebies - "comps" - so she would gamble more.

Why pay cash, which offers no discounts or freebies (unless you and the seller are conspiring to avoid sales taxes), when a credit card purchase puts you one step closer to a round-trip ticket to Tahiti?

The restaurants can afford to offer such freebies in part by employing a serving style that encourages table turnover.

The little sites are fighting back with some tactics of their own, like preventing price comparisons or offering freebies that an anonymous large site can't.