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Spear
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Spear
In auto sales, a tactic in which a salesperson speaks with a person away from the dealership site and offers an impossibly high price for a trade-in, provided the person comes to the dealership that same day to finalize the deal. The intent of a spear is to encourage the customer to come back to that dealership, at which time the salesperson will quote the real price for the trade-in.


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A 1993 survey of tribal spearers conducted by the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC), for example, found that those consuming an average number of walleye meals in the spring (the season of highest consumption) had intake rates ranging from 189.
In came a small, mean, wizened-faced man of about 60, dressed in a black coat and hat, drab breeches and gaiters, and looking more like a decayed Methodist preacher than a spearer of imperial salmon," he wrote.
Spearers were called "timber niggers" and Indian women were spit on.
 
 
 
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