bait and switch
- n a deceptive way of selling that involves advertising a product at a very low price in order to attract customers who are then persuaded to switch to a more expensive product
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- First Person: Buying in the Suburbs Killed My American Dream
I feel as though I was the victim of a "bait and switch" by buying my cookie-cutter home in the suburbs. It's not that I have anything against the cookie-cutter Florida-style homes. It's that I didn't expect the value of my home to dramatically decrease during the housing collapse. What's even more surprising is the fact that everything I didn't like about the cities is now happening to my ...
June 7, 2013 - Yahoo! Contributor Network via Yahoo! Finance - Paula Deen's Vocation Comes Full Circle: Her Face is on Some Butter
Buttery crusader Paula Deen was just foolin' when she said she would cut the copious slabs of butter out of her cooking. This was a bait and switch because museum subject Paula Deen has a whole brand of butter. Read more...
June 6, 2013 - Gawker