upsell
Speech parts
1. upsell - Noun
2. upsell - Verb
Meaning
upsell (third-person singular simple present upsells, present participle upselling, simple past and past participle upsold)
To persuade a customer to buy more items, or more expensive items, than they had intended.
upsell (plural upsells)
The act of making such a sale.
Examples
Add in the fact that the bank can upsell these wealthy new customers on other financial products, and it’s a total win for the banks.
If you want to upsell a customer, that’s completely fine.
In high school, he would buy t-shirts across the border in the States, and upsell them back in Canada.
I no longer use Adobe for PDF files if I can help it: when I first got lumbered with Adobe Reader DC, I ripped it out within minutes as it seemed that every option did nothing more than try to upsell the paid version.
It’s the nature of their job to upsell customers, so they’ll try to explain why leasing rather than buying makes good financial sense.
Our waitress was sunny but intelligent; she guided us through the menu, and only once tried to upsell us.