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Bait and Switch

  

Categories: Investing, Trading

An illegal tactic that sales people use to get you through the door. For example, you might be promised a car for $20,000, but when you get to the lot, the car is suddenly $30,000. The sales agent can then use his or her mojo to get you to buy the more expensive wheels.

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Finance: What is a Bait And Switch?3 Views

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Finance allah shmoop what is a bait and switch Don't

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watch this video all the way to the end and

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we'll give you one year of shmoop premium for only

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eight ninety nine a month Are you still with us

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Excellent So about that offer Yeah it's actually going to

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cost you twenty for sixty eight a month but hey

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as long as we've got your attention now would you

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like to get a full year of shmoop premium for

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only five hundred dollars And yeah you've just been had

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that's the old bait and switch get in the door

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with the promise of something amazing then once you're safely

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inside pulled the rug out from under your feet and

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try to up sell the crap outta and yeah you'll

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see this trick being used by the guy with the

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oil slick hairdo and fish tie at the used car

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dealership as well as by the gal with the sweet

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smile of the mortgage refinancing company She'll hook you by

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telling you that she can offer you the lowest rate

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on the market the money's almost free The thing is

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though you've actually got a qualify for that teaser rate

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And she knows that Yeah you won't But once she's

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got your ear well then she'll be able teo pull

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the switch After she's baited you she'll still get you

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to go with her company for your mortgage only a

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higher rate which translates to higher commissions for her and

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bigger spread for the bank So yeah you never want

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to be the fish going for the innocent looking worm

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and then wind up wriggling at the end of the

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