I've rarely received a free gift and I don't expect one.

I doubt it would swing me to  positive feedback if everything wasn't right with my main purchase.

But having said that, I did get a little freebie the other day. I bought a sheet of paper-it came out quite expensive for one sheet, mind you, but the seller included a small pack of embellishments, little light coral coloured flowers. I was very impressed as they matched the paper so well.

Now, that seller put the sheet into a padded bag, but the postie, in his wisdom, bent the bag in order to put it in our letter box.

I gave the seller top feedback because he deserved it and i did appreciate his effort with the freebie, but I also messaged him privately, just to let him know it wasn't a problem for me, but the sheet got bent and a normal envelope with maybe a cardboard backing for the paper might work better than the padded bags.

I noticed someone else gave him neutral because an item was bent in the post and I bet they got the freebie as well.

So I am not sure a gift is necessary-but I have to admit, I like them.