Teleshopping channels are selling smartphones with misleading, high-pressure tactics

The Next Web
By Matthew HughesJul 9, 2019, 9:19 am109 pts
There’s something wrong on Freeview channel 21. That’s the conclusion I landed upon after watching two hours of Ideal World, a free-to-air UK teleshopping station, where they shamelessly pitched an unambiguously low-end smartphone using sales tactics I regard as misleading and high-pressure. The phone in…

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