> And you will get exactly what you paid for. What are they getting though? It's like saying when you spend $1,000 for a beanie baby (or a cabbage patch kid i

> And you will get exactly what you paid for. What are they getting though? It's like saying when you spend $1,000 for a beanie baby (or a cabbage patch kid if you're older) you got something of transient value driven by cultural hype. On its face, yes you are right: you got a doll for a lot of money, or a token for a lot of money. But you weren't buying a doll, you were buying hype whipped up by con men that it will be worth more to another person who is conned. Dolls aren't worth thousands of dollars unless a critical mass agrees they are. Its the Austrian economic theory why diamonds are worth more than water, when water is necessary for life and diamonds are just shiny rocks. I consider that a scam too. You are correct that words do matter. We need to call these what they are: scams and cons. I think perhaps you are trying to partition a scam or a con into a "bait and switch", that is also a scam/con, at the expense of everything else. That's what it sounds like to me.