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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 ...
The terms top, bottom, and switch are also used in BDSM, with slightly different meanings. In BDSM, a top is the person doing something to someone else, and a bottom is the person receiving that act. [2][3] In both contexts, the terms top and bottom refer to active and passive roles, not to who is physically on top in a particular sexual act. [1]
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 ...
Bait-and-switch is a deceptive marketing tactic generally used to lure customers into a store. A company will advertise a product in an attractive way (the bait). The product is not available for some reason, however, and the company will try to sell something more expensive than what was originally advertised (the switch).
The motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions that share similarities, one modest and easy to defend (the "motte") and one much more controversial and harder to defend (the "bailey"). [1] The arguer advances the controversial position ...
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]
[13] The recognition and transmission of these patterns has developed evolutionarily, leading to the point where human beings have become able to recognize sophisticated patterns such as language constructions, and patterns of behavior such as the "bait and switch". She also defines types of information useful for the information professions ...