
1) Deception, of a kind 2) Marketing ploy 3) Plaza ploy 4) Sneaky sales tactic 5) Unscrupulous sales tactic
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1) Advertising technique 2) Diversionary tactic
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Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud used in retail sales but also employed in other contexts. First, customers are `baited` by merchants` advertising products or services at a low price, but when customers visit the store, they discover that the advertised goods are not available, or the customers are pressured by sales people to consider simila......
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(n) Bait And Switch is the trade practice by which attractive sale offers, which are non-existent, were made with an intention to sought customers or traffic towards other products or activities. Eg. Offering discount sale after increasing the price, 2. Influencing customers to switch their buy when they visit the shop to buy bargain sales.
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In retail sales, when customers are lured by advertisements for a product at a low price, then find that the product is not available but a more expensive substitute is
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A dishonest sales practice in which a business advertises a bargain price for an item in order to draw customers in and then tells the prospective buyer that the advertised item is of poor quality or no longer available and attempts to switch the customer to a more expensive product. In most states this practice is a crime and can also be the basis...
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noun a deceptive way of selling that involves advertising a product at a very low price in order to attract customers who are then persuaded to switch to a more expensive product
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When an author encourages the reader to invest attention in a developing emotional or suspenseful situation (?bait?), only to substitute (?switch?) a high-action payoff which has nothing to do with the previous development, or a POV cut so that the expected climax is unresolved but instead left to the reader?s imagination
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