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Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud used in retail sales but also employed in other contexts. First, the merchant "baits" the customer by advertising a product or service at a low price; then when the customer goes to purchase the item, they discover that it is unavailable, and the merchant pressures them instead to purchase a similar but more expensive product ("switching").
SiIvaGunner [a] (/ ˈ s iː v ə ˌ ɡ ʌ n ər / ⓘ), formerly GiIvaSunner [a] [2] (/ ˈ ɡ iː v ə ˌ s ʌ n ə r / ⓘ), is a comedic musical collective based mostly around bait-and-switch YouTube videos claiming to be "high quality rips" of video game music that are in reality remixes, parodies, and/or mashups, often incorporating ...
Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud or false advertising. Bait and Switch may also refer to: Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich (2006) "Bait and Switch", a 2009 episode of This American Life; in music: Bait and Switch by Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments (1995) "Bait & Switch", a song from the KMFDM album Blitz
Greene accused the speaker of engaging in "bait and switch" tactics after Johnson released a statement on Tuesday calling on his fellow Republicans to support his plans to include the SAVE Act in ...
Kate*, a copywriter and marketing professional, moved to Chicago three years ago with a promising job lined up. She was hired as a marketing manager at a small consulting firm, and was excited to ...
In mid-2017, Kitboga found out that his grandmother had fallen victim to many scams designed to prey on the elderly, both online and in person. [4] He then discovered "Lenny", a loop of vague pre-recorded messages that scam baiters play during calls to convince the scammer that there is a real person on the phone without providing any useful information to the scammer.
Kenneth Roberts [2] proposed the bait-and-switch argument as one of the core characteristics of a new kind of Latin American populism (broad-based and supported by the lower classes, but implementing market-driven policies) of which presidents Alberto Fujimori of Peru (1990–2000) and Carlos Menem of Argentina (1989–99) would be exemplars.
TV Tropes is a wiki that collects and documents descriptions and examples of plot conventions and devices, which it refers to as tropes, within many creative works. [7] Since its establishment in 2004, the site has shifted focus from covering various tropes to those in general media, toys, writings, and their associated fandoms, as well as some non-media subjects such as history, geography ...