Talk:Upselling/Archives/2016
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Unencyclopedic
This article is anti-encyclopedic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Berkan~svwiki (talk • contribs) 06:54, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
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| No mention of how obnoxious and rude this practice is. No mention of customers who avoid businesses that upsell too aggressively. Examples: I cannot buy a pack of gum at Safeway without being harassed about their loyalty card. When I say I don't have one, the clerk wants to know if I want one.
The corporate world seems to believe that if they upsell aggressively enough, and long enough, people like me will just get used to it, and accept it as a fact of life. If the wikipedia article is to be credible, some mention of these issues must be made. I'm not an experienced Wikipedia editor, so I'm not the guy for the job. |
Substituted at 22:03, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Definition
Up-sell is a marketing term for the practice of suggesting higher priced products or services to a customer who is considering a purchase. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.21.240.2 (talk) 12:54, 7 July 2016 (UTC) The definition was incomplete and inaccurate as it was written. I added, ", or in addition to,[1]" to the third sentence, and provided three references, because in common use "upselling" refers to selling an upgrade or selling an additional product or service. Ask any manager at McDonald's (or any fast food restaurant) what they mean by "upsell" and they will not say, "persuading the customer to purchase a different product instead of their original order". That would be bad business, as you can imagine. Plus, selling a different product is cross-selling, as the article states. --Markworthen (talk) 18:36, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
"Cross-Selling, sometimes called the 'bait and switch',...." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.65.108.141 (talk) 19:28, 9 March 2014 (UTC)