The woman, he says, tried to convince him to buy an interest in the horses she was selling.

On the streets and in restaurants, children try to convince visitors to buy city maps or books.

And you've got to convince people to buy the hardware, even if there's no software out there for it.

Even companies that struggled to convince consumers to buy online last year are trying again in 2006.

And they convince you to buy a $100 ad.

Anything she could put in Whitney's hand to help convince him to buy the rest.

"I'm trying to convince them to buy me a Mazda6," he said.

But who to convince to buy them in the first place?

I simply can't convince myself to buy the right size.

The company hopes that your previous good experience with one of its plants will convince you to buy from it again.