Is lying also a business strategy?

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These days when it comes to business, lying has become a very common and popular thing. Companies and business owners lie about what they can do in some of their adverts. While some lie to their customers just to make sales. I met a business owner who said it was not lying but rather its a business strategy. What's your take on this?
 
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In some cases, reputed tech and internet companies are making fake allegations without any proof against small online business owners, to ruin their reputation, so that they can cheat, exploit, rob them for the rest of their lives.
 

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In some cases, reputed tech and internet companies are making fake allegations without any proof against small online business owners, to ruin their reputation, so that they can cheat, exploit, rob them for the rest of their lives.
Issues like this are pretty common not just in business alone but even in politics. This is why some persons would say business is a form of politics on its own, or a battleground.
 

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Telling a lie is a sin and if caught the business owner will be sanctioned. He must not mislead the customers because once they learn about the lies, they will no longer come back .You will have a very bad reputation for life.
 
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Telling a lie is a sin and if vaight the business owner will be sanctioned. He must not mislead the customers because once they learn about the lies, they will no longer come bac.You will have a very bad reputation for life.
In countries where corruption levels are high, only liars and cheaters are flourishing, getting lucrative no work no investment government jobs for faking business ownership and the largest tech and internet companies are supporting them for the last 13 years.
 

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Sellers see this as a gimmick then a lie. So they see nothing wrong with this. But I think it is still a sin though not a crime anyway but they need to be careful
 

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Some times business owners tell a lie to get attention from a customers, and they even advertise very different thing from their business ideas, and after they get some customers they start to tell the the truth.
 

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The easiest way to kill your business is when you lie and manipulate customers and other stakeholders. They would not trust you when they get to find out and may cease doing business with you.
 

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Absolutely, trust disappears of tell a lie What if the lie causes harm especially if it's about beauty products and discovered later by the buyer as fake, the business owner surely answers it in the court of law.
 

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We all remember an old saying, Honesty is the best policy. And while going deep in grammar we find as it is Universal truth. So it remain same in passive voice. The point is when we remain honest in business it will grow and grow. While customer easily find out the liers and they don't purchase from there shop.
 
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