Across
- 3. Unexpected financial gain, like a lottery win
- 7. The period of time an item remains useful (2 words)
- 8. Illegal tactic - lure with a deal, swap for a pricier item (3 words)
- 10. Interest and fees paid for borrowing money (2 words)
- 11. Making untrue claims about a product's performance (2 words)
- 15. Budgeting mantra: "Every penny should have a ______."
- 17. The upfront price paid to buy an item (2 words)
- 20. Let the buyer beware (2 words)
- 22. Collecting vast amounts of user info to analyze habits (2 words)
- 23. Stealing personal data to commit fraud as someone else (2 words)
- 24. Ongoing expense to keep an item working (e.g., oil changes) (2 words)
- 25. Scams that pretend to support a good cause (2 words)
- 27. Ads targeting your feelings rather than your logic (2 words)
- 28. Pressure to overspend to impress or support a peer group (2 words)
- 29. The study of the "why" behind your buying decisions (2 words)
Down
- 1. Selling items together to force the purchase of extras (2 words)
- 2. Financial axiom: "______ leads to prosperity."
- 4. Loan practice with abusive terms and sky-high rates (2 words)
- 5. Irrational spending triggered by a rapid income spike (3 words)
- 6. Inflating an original price to make a "sale" look better (2 words)
- 9. Designing products to break or expire so you buy again (2 words)
- 12. Expense to get rid of an asset at the end of its life (2 words)
- 13. Sales tactic - "Would you like fries with that?"
- 14. Physical investments like cars; often illiquid (2 words)
- 16. Sales method demanding an immediate decision (3 words)
- 18. Unplanned purchase made in the heat of the moment (2 words)
- 19. An asset purchased to generate future income or profit
- 21. Prime retail real estate at the end of an aisle (2 words)
- 26. Item sold below cost just to get you into the store (2 words)
- 27. Money spent or cost incurred to buy goods or services