Deceptive Patterns
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6pm.com: Low-stock message.

Author
Mathur, Arunesh; Acar, Gunes; Friedman, Michael J.; Lucherini, Elena; Mayer, Jonathan; Chetty, Marshini; Narayanan, Arvind
Date
21 Feb 2021
Type
Fake scarcity
Publisher
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites

“Low-stock Message on http://6pm.com. Choosing product options shows Only 3 left in stock. The out-of-stock message makes it always seem that the item just sold out.”

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