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General Category => Words => Topic started by: blackrockrose on May 30, 2019, 06:17:08 PM
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Upsell ("Would you like fries with that?") was rejected in the PERILOUSLY 10-letter game on May 29th.
I'd like to suggest it as a rare word.
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It upsets me to admit that I too tried upsell - really it's far too modern a word for me!!!
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I would say it's a common word.
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Not common for me - I've never heard of it!
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I'd never heard the term upselling before seeing Rose's suggestion, although I have heard of supersizing, which is something similar.
Basically, it means trying to get the customer to spend more than they had intended to.
Wikipedia has a page on the subject, so the word is probably well enough known to justify a 'rare' on Chi.
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Supersizing is getting them to buy a "large" not a small and to upsell is to persuade the buyer of a notebook to also buy a pen. ( This is me at work! Sorry folks!) Which is why I knew the word but I still dislike it as a modern affectation. I note that my spell checker is not happy about the word upsell (wiggly underlining!)
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It's also in a number of online dictionaries (Oxford, free, business, Cambridge). I've seen/heard the practice called "selling add-ons", rather than "upselling", but it's a neat term.
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As anona says, it's in some dictionaries so I'll add the word. I don't think it's quite reached the common status. Most of the usage examples I can see are from specialist publications dealing with business, marketing, etc. So it will be classed as rare.
The earliest usage I saw was from Inc. magazine in 2000:
Compared with many E-commerce sites, Mrs. Beasley's is actually quite simple... it doesn't upsell, a la Amazon ("Customers who bought the lemon cake also bought these products"), because Harris finds that tactic annoying.
I know you only asked for upsell, blackrockrose, but I think you'd also like upselling and upsold. They're available in a package deal, for a limited time only.
A recent example of upsold, from a Globe and Mail piece on buying a car:
Whether leasing or buying, decide in advance what make, model and features are on the wish list, and don't be upsold on unnecessary features.
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You upsold me, Alan, but since the cost was zero, here's a virtual smile by way of a thank you: :D