Highball

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HIGHBALL


What is highball? An exaggeration of the truth to benefit the person that is highballing. To stretch the truth. To extend the truth to fit one’s idea of what should have been the truth in their mind.
An outright LIE!
You’re going to class and you see a fellow classmate and you both have Biology together. Last week you both took a test in Biology on Cell Division. Your fellow classmate asks you what you got on that test. You say, I got an “A” but in reality you really received a “B” (89). The “A” sounded better, you just highballed your fellow classmate.
Your profession is to sell cars, to sell as many cars as you can on a month to month basis. Salespeople highball all the time. An example of this would be when a salesperson is asked what their yearly average is, and they respond that they average 10 units a month. In actuality this salesperson has only sold 10 units one of the months out of the whole year. The salesperson has just highballed his average so that it would sound as if he was averaging about 10 units each month.
The same can go for customers. I personally have been a sales associate. I sold furniture. Many times when customers purchase furniture, it being so costly, many customers had to finance their purchases. I would take an application on the customer, which required information like how much they make a month, how much money they have to pay out a month, and collateral. All of the information being verified, but commonly a customer would tell me they make two thousand five hundred dollars a month, when in reality they make about eighteen hundred dollars a month. When verifying how many bills and the amounts they pay out on those bills, I found that most customers had highball the figures. All this just so they could get approved to purchase merchandise by financing it. Common knowledge, you would think, would keep the customer from highballing the figures to their advantage, kno...