Bait and Switch
These Black Friday sales are
beyond comical to me. I’d like to sit in
a lawn chair with a cooler of beer and just watch all the crazies. It’s like a shark feeding frenzy. People wait in line for hours to get a
certain thing only to find there was only one per store as documented in the
fine print of the ad in 6-point font. The
stores know exactly what they are doing. They figure they will bait you into the store
then get you to buy something more expensive when you find out the “one” item
is gone. So when you stressed and fought
for parking, waited in line for hours, only to find out the one item is gone,
have you really saved anything? When you
put a price on your time and sanity, I would think you are actually losing
money.
Bait and switch comes in all
forms in life. Not only on Black Fridays
or buying cars but also with people.
People claim to be one way only to see their actions indicate they are another
way. Just like trying to cook the books
in accounting, doing the bait and switch will also catch up at some point. There are always tell tale signs of any bait
and switcher when you learn to read the fine print. If your intuition tells you something is off,
pay attention. If your friends and
family sense something is off, pay attention.
Like we were all told as kids, “If it sound too good to be true, then it
probably is…” Read the fine print.
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