キャッチセールス

noun

aggressive street solicitation; catch sales

A deceptive sales tactic where a person is stopped on the street and pressured into signing an expensive, hard-to-cancel contract. Wasei-eigo; not standard English.

wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from catch sales

• 駅えき前まえでキャッチセールスに引ひっかかって、高こう額がくなエステの契けい約やくをさせられた。

  I got caught by a catch salesperson in front of the station and was made to sign an expensive beauty salon contract.