Don't be fooled by free "bonuses"

I enjoy reading and listening to self-improvement and motivational books. I particularly enjoy reading and listening to Jim Rohn's books and CDs, and own several of them. One of his DVDs was of a seminar with many other motivational speakers, and I subscribed to several of their newsletters.

Yesterday I received an email from one of these speakers, announcing the release of his latest book. The email also stated that if I bought the book in the next few days, I would get over 20 bonuses! So I went to the website to see what  the bonuses were, and they included ebooks and mp3 recordings of other self-improvement and motivational speakers, all with a "valued at" amount beneath them. Some of these bonuses looked really good, and some were valued at quite high amounts, so even though I wasn't very interested in the guy's new book I decided to buy it anyway for the bonuses.