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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 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).
e. This is a partial list of lawsuits involving Tesla, Inc, the American automotive and energy company, since 2008; as of August 2023, Tesla is party to over 1,750 lawsuits, [1] and as of September 2021, it is party to 200 in China alone. [2] A significant number of the cases notably derive from the actions of the company's CEO, Elon Musk, who ...
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[24] [25] Consumers believe that they are protected by consumer protection laws, when their lender is really operating wholly outside the laws. Refer to 15 U.S.C. 1601 and 12 C.F.R. 226. Media investigations have disclosed that mortgage lenders used bait-and-switch salesmanship and fraud to take advantage of borrowers during the home-loan boom.
New Jersey Attorney General's office is accusing a South Jersey paving company of breaking its consumer fraud laws by allegedly using bait-and-switch pricing, not honoring warranties and doing ...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., condemned Johnson for calling the vote Wednesday, writing, "This is classic bait and switch that will enrage the base, only one month before the election, when ...
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 ...