high-pressure sales technique

Scare advertising and high-pressure sales techniques cause some elderly people to throw away money on excess Medigap insurance.

Telemarketing is often criticized as an unethical business practice due to the perception of high-pressure sales techniques during unsolicited calls.

On her vertical loom, one woman demonstrated for us how she makes the beautiful Berber kilim carpets, sold using high-pressure sales techniques in Tozeur's shops.

"Campaigns are so large these days that the variable income can be scandalous, and the temptation to use high-pressure sales techniques can be enormous," said Paul D. Nelson, the council's president.

Lawsuit alleges illegal recruiting took place by instructing recruiters to use high-pressure sales techniques like playing on an applicant's psychological vulnerabilities and inflating claims of career placement opportunities to enroll students regardless of their qualifications.

In a complaint filed with the court, regulators charged that the young brokers who worked at Stratton were schooled in the use of "abusive and high-pressure sales techniques to overcome all conceivable customer objections" to buying Stratton's stocks.

The counterfeits, including prints masquerading as the works of such celebrated artists as Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall and Joan Miro, are sold as "original, hand-signed, limited-edition" prints, usually for $1,000 to $8,000 apiece, by galleries and telephone operators using high-pressure sales techniques.