Synonyms for bait and switch
bait and switch

Princeton's WordNet

1. bait and switchnoun

   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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1. • Selling

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1. Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal:

   It was a bait-and-switch, it wasn't what we've been told. It wasn't what we had been promised.

2. Mitch McConnell:

   I think it can best be described as the 'Biden bait and switch,' president Biden ran as a moderate, but I'm hard-pressed to think of anything at all that he's done — so far — that would indicate some degree of moderation.

3. Norman Ornstein:

   It was in many ways astonishing, it would have been so easy to say' Manchin's trying to blow this up, we're not going to let this bait and switch go through.'.

4. Beth Lowell:

   Americans might love salmon, but as our study reveals, they may be falling victim to a bait and switch, when consumers opt for wild-caught U.S. salmon, they don’t expect to get a farmed or lower-value product of questionable origins. This type of Seafood Fraud can have serious ecological and economic consequences. Not only are consumers getting ripped off, but responsible U.S. fishermen are being cheated when fraudulent products lower the price for their hard-won catch.

5. Phil Weiser:

   My friends on the other side have failed to offer any viable theory on how to address the spectacle of a bribed elector, an elector who votes for Frodo Baggins, or one who would perpetrate a bait-and-switch on the people of the state.