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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").
Clickbait. Clickbait (also known as link bait or linkbait[2]) is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow ("click") that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading. [3][4][5] A "teaser" aims to ...
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]
What shady bait-and-switch tactics do home sellers use that you should try to avoid? Not Disclosing Information About Issues
Rickrolling or a Rickroll is an Internet meme involving the unexpected appearance of the music video to the 1987 hit song "Never Gonna Give You Up", performed by English singer Rick Astley. The aforementioned video has over 1.5 billion views on YouTube. The meme is a type of bait and switch, usually using a disguised hyperlink that leads to the ...
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 ...
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).
SiIvaGunner[a] (/ ˈsiːvəˌɡʌnər / ⓘ), formerly GiIvaSunner[a][2] (/ ˈɡiːvəˌsʌnər / ⓘ), 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 Internet memes and popular ...