The problem arises when in a market like smartphones, the temptation to bait and switch becomes great.
Elliot says this could be interpreted as a "bait and switch" by marketers.
Unfortunately, many of these companies could not financially survive his bait and switch.
This highly deceptive extreme corporate makeover could prove to be the largest bait and switch con of all time.
And if so, when and can it make such a big switch without it feeling like a bait and switch?
We wouldn't be surprised if HHS is promising flexibility now only to revoke it later as a deliberate bait and switch.
While Evergreen may seem like a scoundrel for the bait and switch, the company is only acting in the best interests of its shareholders.
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It pulled another bait and switch.
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Back in December I wrote here about the widespread substitution of cheaper species of fish for more expensive and desirable ones, a daily bait and switch that routinely goes on at retail fish markets, in restaurants and especially in sushi places.
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Apple released a statement today confirming this, but here's where it gets interesting: the company says that "the developer of this application added inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed" -- in other words, the guy pulled a bait-and-switch on Apple by serving different content to his app after it had been approved using more PG-rated content.
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Among the possibilities: Bait-and-switch heavy data users off the unlimited plans they signed up for.
California's attorney general, whom we now call Gov. Jerry Brown, declined to investigate the bait-and-switch.
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As it happens, the poster child of this bait-and-switch may be former Senator-turned-lobbyist Trent Lott.
The Loudoun County School Board is not the first to be subjected to the Gulen bait-and-switch.
This may sound like reasonable advice, but it's actually a bait-and-switch strategy and hardly unique to Fidelity.
The worst thing that can happen now is for the state of Wisconsin to employ its own bait-and-switch.
Also, before being bought by HSBC in 2003, Household had already come under fire for using bait-and-switch tactics on interest rates.
Which is small consolation because it means the 9-9-9 Plan would soon become a vicious bait-and-switch scam once enacted into law.
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Employers may also see through the Washington tax bait-and-switch, figuring that they'll pay for the temporary tax cut with higher taxes later.
Like the well-meaning patrons in a pointless line, the perpetual bombardment of bait-and-switch headlines and ads promising cures, shortcuts, and answers can be tempting.
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If, as his post-Vietnam record suggests, this amounts to a bait-and-switch trap for American voters, it is understandable that he would object to close scrutiny of the bait.
But in a classic bait-and-switch move, the GISAID board changed that policy after the database was up and running, and now they can sit on data as long as they want.
Bait-and-switch also occurs at car dealerships and rug stores.
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Of special interest is a bait-and-switch ruse where (mostly older) investors are told to liquidate safe, low-yielding investments to buy annuities, which carry steep commissions and expenses and lock investors in for years.
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