Unedited 2/15/09
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Swiping is something that happens so fast a client is not able to respond appropriately. A contractor for example has a wife who works in a large office who promotes his company. Another woman working in the office hires the contractor. The contractor takes advantage of her using swiping tactics. The client wants a room added to the house. The contractor says he will draw up a set of plans ostensibly to show her. Instead he takes the plans to the city building department and get a building permit without showing her the plans. He asks payment of $2000 for the plans. She is so struck in the moment she cannot respond or complain because she has a relationship with his wife that could be threatened if she hastily says something inappropriate. In reality the plans took the contractor less than three hours to draw up making the value of his work $660 an hour in a profession that is paid less than a hundred dollars an hour. It could be said that the contractor has swiped her, overpowered her, taken liberties and price gouged her.

Note:

• Pressure Tactics
• Intimating
• Overpowering Tactics
• Taking Liberties
• Gouging