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.

• キャッチセールスは悪あく質しつ商しょう法ほうの一ひとつとして規き制せいされている。

  Catch sales are regulated as one form of malicious business practice.