On 02/02/2012 03:04 AM, Darren New wrote:
> On 1/31/2012 9:13, John VanSickle wrote:
>> It goes without saying that consumers already have a remedy for
>> bait-and-switch merchants: Refuse to buy their merchandise.
>
> Or just buy what was advertised. The law just says that if you advertise
> something cheap, it's not illegal to try to convince the buyer to buy
> something more expensive instead. It's only illegal to advertise the
> cheap one if you refuse or are unable to sell the cheap one.
>
> I'm honestly unsure how you could even deal with a situation if you
> advertised something on sale, then told someone the non-cheap one was
> better, and that was illegal.

To my mind, bait and switch is when you tell somebody they're buying X, 
but they're actually buying Y. That seems to me like fraud, and should 
be utterly illegal everywhere.

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