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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").
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream is a 2005 book by Barbara Ehrenreich. The book follows Ehrenreich's examination of the world of insecure low-wage work that constituted Nickel and Dimed, published in 2001. In this case, she decided to pseudonymously penetrate the corporate world instead and then write about the way in ...
Ehrenreich later wrote a companion book, Bait and Switch (published September 2005), about her attempt to find a white-collar job. In 2019, the book was ranked 13th on The Guardian ' s list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. [1] In 2024, it was ranked 57th on the New York Times list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. [2]
There’s one topic that you may not have studied, and this is the idea of home sellers who use shady bait-and-switch tactics to try to close the deal. As exciting as it is to try to purchase that ...
Kenneth Roberts 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.
Contents. Wikipedia:Bait-and-switch. The old bait-and-switch is near ubiquitous on Wikipedia. We tell editors to be bold and then we criticize their contributions and tell them to be careful. We advertise ourselves as a community, but it's unlikely you'll make any friends on Wikipedia given that it's an encyclopedia, not a disco or a house ...
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