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New word suggestion - upsell
« on: May 30, 2019, 06:17:08 PM »
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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Re: New word suggestion - upsell
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2019, 09:38:25 PM »
It upsets me to admit that I too tried upsell - really it's far too modern a word for me!!!

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Re: New word suggestion - upsell
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2019, 10:27:11 PM »
I would say it's a common word.
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Re: New word suggestion - upsell
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2019, 12:51:17 AM »
Not common for me - I've never heard of it!

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Re: New word suggestion - upsell
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2019, 03:17:32 AM »
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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Re: New word suggestion - upsell
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2019, 04:02:44 AM »
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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Re: New word suggestion - upsell
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2019, 01:36:34 PM »
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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Re: New word suggestion - upsell
« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2019, 04:59:19 PM »
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:

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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:

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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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Re: New word suggestion - upsell
« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2019, 07:11:37 PM »
You upsold me, Alan, but since the cost was zero, here's a virtual smile by way of a thank you:  :D