5 Shady Sales Tactics That Are Making You Spend

Spot them and stay away to save your money.

Niharikaa Kaur Sodhi
The Startup

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Photo by Steve Harvey on Unsplash

Picture this.

You browse for something online and give your email in exchange for some freebie. This happened to me last week when I was looking for Lightroom presets (to edit photos).

You get them. It’s good, it’s fun.

Then you get a link to buy the entire package. You know it’ll give value, but you don’t want it right now. I’m no Instagram influencer. I simply stumbled on them while procrastinating.

The next day, the offer comes with a 24-hour countdown.

After that, it gets extended to 12 hours.

And then five more ‘last chance’ emails.

When you hop back to the first mail, the 24-hour timer still exists. Sounds familiar?

Then here are a few shady tactics you should save yourself (and your wallet) from.

Creating Urgency

The above is a BS strategy to create urgency.

This also happened to me last year by two writing courses. A year later, their timers are still on.

Listen, creating urgency isn’t bad.

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