What is this offer worth? 

" My company provides free hotel travel certificates for businesses
throughout the United States. I would like to make you the following
offer. The certificate that we sell is for a weekday getaway 3 days
and 2 nights of hotel accommodations in a 3 star hotel or better. My
certificates don?t expire. There is no time share presentation of any
kind and best of all you are under no obligation to purchase anything
else. I would be willing to trade you hotel certificates. Our site is
http://www.efreetravel.com, and you can see all of the info about our
hotel vouchers."

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Request for Question Clarification by denco-ga on 28 Mar 2004 14:12 PST

Howdy tomdavid-ga,

Are you talking about the worth of the certificates in terms
of a business promotion or in other terms?  Thanks!

Looking Forward, denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher

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Clarification of Question by tomdavid-ga on 28 Mar 2004 15:01 PST

I am being made an offer to accept these certificates in stead of cash
for some promotional merchandise of mine. My merchandise is worth
$200.

This is my personal viewpoint:

Hotel and travel vouchers are so often associated with scams that I
generally assume them to be without value unless there is strong
evidence otherwise. There are almost always "strings attached," and
sometimes the strings render the vacation package worthless.

A friend of mine received a "free" certificate that entitled her to
three days in what was described as "a luxury hotel in Miami Beach."
Once she got there, she discovered that the "hotel" was nowhere near
the beach; it was a filthy, run-down rooming house which was largely
populated by prostitutes and dope dealers. The proprietor offered to
"upgrade" her voucher so that she could stay in a decent hotel (same
ownership), but the catch was that the upgrade would cost an extra
$150 per night. My friend, sadder and wiser, walked out in disgust,
and found another place to stay.

I appreciate the input and think you are correct. Thank you.

what pinkfreud's friend situation turned out is heresay, while
following links to YOUR previously asked questions shows a unique
picture.

Now all your products at your ebay store may be "top of the line",
what this person saw was products on the "over-priced" side of the
fence. Like I said, I could be just misinformed.

The efreetravel.com site had a questions and answers page, they are at
the mercy of travel agencies that rate the local hotels that they use.
These travel agencies only recommend 3 star or better hotels. I have
stayed in some motels that could be rated with a skunk meter, but I
can imagine a 3 star hotel is pretty clean, couldn't you?

Just my 2 cents.