gazump

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A common way that a seller will gazump is by emphasizing a competing buyer - or even inventing the second buyer.

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  1. raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price
  2. rip off; ask an unreasonable price

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  • Anyone wishing to gazump the trendsetters and fast-forward straight into the late-90s / early —  Life and style | guardian.co.uk
  • The BBC will whip out the second special, with very little notice, and gazump ITV. —  All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
  • The local release of the Dream will gazump the postponed plans by Melbourne's Kogan Technologies to launch its own —  APC
  • Ed Mead, director of London agents Douglas & Gordon, said the company's Wandsworth branch had seen one buyer try to gazump another by £50,000 after a bidding battle pushed the price on a property from £800,000 to nearly £900,000. —  The Guardian World News
  • The seller presumably expects that the buyer is already committed to purchasing the property to the degree that a last-minute gazump will not change the buyer's mind. —  Investopedia.com Headlines
 

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