1.   Always reject overly emotional appeals or high-pressure sales tactics.

2.   An online shopper can presumably avoid the aggressive sales tactics used by some funeral homes.

3.   Another internal Mattel document called for the company to develop better systems to account for product-related costs associated with certain sales tactics.

4.   All brokers have different sales tactics.

5.   Burns feels that approach leaves too much room for high-pressure sales tactics.

6.   But customers and competitors say the company continues to use old sales tactics and to offer old contract terms.

7.   Consumer complaints of false advertising, high-pressure sales tactics and unkept promises are not uncommon.

8.   Customers loved the low-pressure sales tactics at Saturn, where the price on the window sticker was what buyers actually paid.

9.   Consumer complaints are down because the company reined in the aggressive sales tactics.

10.   Critics also are concerned that unsophisticated investors will have no protection from high-pressure sales tactics.