Excellent Exercise Equipment,Inc.(EEE) advertises a treadmill for $199. When Garth tries to buy one of the treadmills,George,the salesperson,tells him that they are backordered and will take over a year to arrive.George then shows Garth another treadmill that is $1,999 and tells him that he can have the more expensive model delivered the next day.This is

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This is an example of bait-and-switch advertising, where the customer is enticed with a lower-priced item but then redirected to a more expensive product that the seller desires to sell. The seller is not able to fulfill its promises for the advertised product, forcing the customer into a situation where he/she must accept purchasing a product at a higher price.