Look for a dupe, or just resign yourself to not paying $130 for a bottle of the much sought-after Clarins 230 on eBay.
"It's unfair that people looking for a cheaper deal online are duped into believing they're saving the most money possible when they choose the deal that price comparison sites tell them is the cheapest," said Luke Watson, chief executive of GB Energy.
Now, a frustrated crew of pursuers, from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office to a New York private eye, are looking for Mr. Rocancourt, who they say has duped the rich on both coasts and abroad.
No one wants to get duped, and entrepreneurs are always looking for better ways to compare term sheets with others in the space to get a sense of how founder-friendly terms are, what language should be agreed to, which should be negotiated, etc.
The vast majority of people lumped into trafficking statistics are workers looking for work, in prostitution or in another industry, not victims that have been duped into an unsavory job against their will.
They believed that a streetwise servant, looking for a better life in America, had schemed against her employer and had succeeded in duping gullible American do-gooders.That the main American protagonist in the saga, the New York prosecutor, Preet Bharara, is of Indian origin in some ways has made matters worse.
There is an element of risk with this approach, in that a recruiter might feel that they are getting duped when they find you do not fit the diversity category they are looking for.
Det Con Darrin Carey, of Hampshire Constabulary, said: "The women were duped into thinking that they were talking to a man who was genuinely looking for love on the dating website match.com.
As concerns grow that the subprime crisis could spread to the rest of the housing market, pundits and politicians looking for a culprit have seized on New Century and its ilk, charging them with causing the crisis with their "predatory lending" practices, duping tens of millions of homeowners into borrowing more money than was good for them.
There you will find, at one end of the market spectrum, plenty of satisfied readers (who were looking for something more than, or at least as well as, gory entertainment) but just as many, at the other end, hollering and snarling that they've been duped.
