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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fraudulent advertising claim or sales offer for a product or service that is not available or not for sale at the stated price, made with the intention of luring customers who are then offered something else or forced to spend more money to get the same thing.
- noun A deception based on a false claim or enticement that proves to be disappointing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
unscrupulous and sometimesillegal sales technique , in which aninexpensive product isadvertised to attractprospective customers who are then told by sales personnel that the inexpensive product isunavailable or of poor quality and are insteadurged to buy a more expensive product. - noun by extension Any similar
deceptive behavior, especially inpolitics andromantic relationships.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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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