proposition selling

proposition selling
   the use of misleading hypotheses to confuse a buyer
   The commercial use of leading questions:
    His technique is old-style American 'proposition selling'. The salesman puts forward a series of numbskull propositions with which you have no choice but to agree. [Daily Telegraph, August 1989, reporting on a time-sharing scam)

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