People depend on experts for advice in areas they have difficulty looking up and checking on themselves, if you can pass yourself off as an authority on the matter and there is little competition among genuine experts you can convince them to buy something they don't need or support something that isn't in their interest.
Oldest trick in the book, difficult to find but it works well. Everyone has beliefs and desires that are dear to them, usually all that can be done is to outwardly agree with them so you don't make of them an enemy, however sometimes there is a way to tug on their heart strings to make them do something for you.
For instance selling someone a lifestyle, they are bored with their dreary grinding existence but you can change all that, for a price.
>>6
I'm actually amused there is a non-Internet thing identified as reductio ad Hitlerum.
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Anonymous2012-11-06 1:41
>>7
Before I learned of Reductio ad Hitlerum, I always called it Becking. (Ala Glenn Beck)
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Anonymous2012-11-06 3:13
>>8>>7>>6
One can easily reduce to Marx, so anything, besides wild aynrandish capitalism, becomes Marxism.
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Anonymous2012-11-06 3:23
So basically,
if one is racially aware, then one is a Hitler;
if one supports public schools, then one is a Marx;
if one supports defense forces, then one is a xenophobe;
if one dislikes Gosplan, then one is a Ayn Rand;
if one supports regulated economy, then one is a commie;
etc...
Also, there's what passes for "democracy" in the States these days; Tell people they actually have a say in their own lives, in the shape of a piece of paper every four years…
…then tell them to choose between elephantshit and horseshit.
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Anonymous2012-11-07 0:57
More, please OP!
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Anonymous2012-11-08 11:18
Selling something for what it is not.
Remember Ministries for Truth/Love/Peace/Plenty from Nineteen Eighty-Four?
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Anonymous2012-11-16 20:56
digging a hole, covering it with leaves and waiting for someone to fall in, then selling them a rope to get out
thanks merchant, you are my greatest ally
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Anonymous2012-11-18 1:45
Create a conflict, then sell weapons to both sides or act as a judge.
Examples:
1. Conman standing at the entrance of museum and asking visitors to pay "separate fee for air", visitors consume inside museum.
2. Bill Gates first secured contract with IBM and then just purchased crappy Q-DOS and resold it as MSDOS.
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Anonymous2012-12-05 16:56
Inaction. Yes. Plain doing nothing at the right moment can kill. Be a Jewish doctor then "accidentally" delay treating goyim patient.
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Anonymous2012-12-06 19:05
Get pictures off of 4chan, act like you're a photographer and that girls are into taking their clothes of.. take hot sexy photo's.
I assume this would work because girls are kinky right?
18+
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Anonymous2012-12-06 19:29
>>20
You might have to go into specific with this because I do not quite understand.
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Anonymous2012-12-07 5:57
Keep secretly breaking windows then offer to protect them from vandals, for a fee.
Like bait and switch except you hook them first, for instance if someone is comparing the prices for different colleges you drop certain expenses to give you an edge over the competition, then when they have moved into the dorm and the academic year is underway you drop the hidden expenses, books, bus fares, equipment, sporting goods, uniforms, everything you can get away with, they have to buy those exclusive goods from exclusive suppliers or they're in big trouble.
As the building began to take shape, the investors realized they had been swindled into purchasing a four-story edifice that was only 40 ft (480 in) tall, rather than the 480 ft (150 m) structure they were expecting.
They brought a lawsuit against McMahon but, to their dismay, the real estate and construction deal was declared legally binding by a local judge. As McMahon had built exactly according to the blueprints they'd signed off on, there was to be no legal remedy for the deceived investors.
Yesss... Always be prepared in case the dumb shmendrik figures out your shtick.