n. Informal.
- Aggressive, high-pressure selling or promotion.
- A person or organization that resists pressure from salespeople; a difficult sales prospect.
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Aggressive sales practices aimed at pressuring a customer into completing a transaction quickly.
Example: The agent was a proponent of the hard sell. Accordingly, he tried to give buyers the impression that the home would be available for only a short period, that the deal offered might be withdrawn any time, and that they would not be afforded the opportunity to think over the decision.
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1.
An aggressive, high-pressure sales practice or promotion, as in Used-car salesmen tend to give you a hard sell. This expression gave rise to the antonym
soft sell, a low-key sales approach that relies on gentle persuasion. [Colloquial; c. 1950]
2.
A difficult sales prospect, one who resists sales pressure. For example, Those brokers who call us at dinnertime find me a hard sell--I usually just hang up on them. [Late 1900s]
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
forceful and insistent advertising
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