Jacob desperately needed blinds for his windows, and he found an ad with an incredibly low price. When he got there, he found out that those had supposedly been sold out, and he was pressured into buying blinds that were more expensive than he wanted. Jacob found out later that Chloe had the same experience at the store a few weeks earlier. It's quite possible that both Jacob and Chloe had become the victim of a deceptive pricing tactic known as

Jacob desperately needed blinds for his windows, and he found an ad with an incredibly low price. When he got there, he found out that those had supposedly been sold out, and he was pressured into buying blinds that were more expensive than he wanted. Jacob found out later that Chloe had the same experience at the store a few weeks earlier. It's quite possible that both Jacob and Chloe had become the victim of a deceptive pricing tactic known as

loss leader pricing

desperation selling

bait and switch

off$-$season deceptions

inventory reduction pricing