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
I got caught by a catch salesperson in front of the station and was made to sign an expensive beauty salon contract.
Catch sales are regulated as one form of malicious business practice.