A shill, plant or stooge is a person who helps a person or organization without disclosing that he or she has a close relationship with that person or organization. Shill typically refers to someone who purposely gives onlookers the impression that he or she is an enthusiastic independent customer of a seller (or marketer of ideas) that he or she is secretly working for.

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  • A shill, plant or stooge is a person who helps a person or organization without disclosing that he or she has a close relationship with that person or organization. Shill typically refers to someone who purposely gives onlookers the impression that he or she is an enthusiastic independent customer of a seller (or marketer of ideas) that he or she is secretly working for. The person or group that hires the shill is using crowd psychology, to encourage other onlookers or audience members to purchase the goods or services (or accept the ideas being marketed). Shills are often employed by confidence artists. Plant and stooge more commonly refer to any person who is secretly in league with another person or organization while pretending to be neutral or actually a part of the organization he or she is planted in, such as a magician's audience, a political party, or an intelligence organization. Shilling is illegal in many circumstances and in many jurisdictions because of the frequently fraudulent and damaging character of the shill's actions. However, if a shill does not place uninformed parties at a risk of loss, but merely generates "buzz", the shill's actions may be legal. For example, a person planted in an audience to laugh and applaud when desired, or to participate in on-stage activities as a "random member of the audience", is a type of legal shill. "Shill" can also be used pejoratively to describe a critic who appears either all-too-eager to heap glowing praise upon mediocre offerings, or who acts as an apologist for glaring flaws. In this sense, they would be an implicit "shill" for the industry at large, possibly because their income is tied to its prosperity. The origin of the term shill is uncertain; it may be an abbreviation of shillaber. The word originally denoted a carnival worker who pretended to be a member of the audience in an attempt to elicit interest in an attraction. Some sources trace the usage only back to 1914.
  • Ein Lockvogel ist eine Person, die im Auftrag von Dienstleistern oder Produzenten im Sinne einer Interessenvertretung bestimmte Waren bewirbt, die der Konkurrenz abwertet oder andere Handlungen im Interesse des Auftraggebers ausführt, dabei aber die eigene Parteilichkeit verschweigt. Die Absicht hinter dem Einsatz basiert auf dem Ausnutzen von Mundpropaganda, dem Glauben potentieller Kunden auf authentische Empfehlungen (anderer scheinbar unbedarfter Kunden). Es ist demnach eine Form der Täuschung.
  • サクラとは、桜の花がパッと咲いて、さっと散ることから、その場面の盛り上げ役のことをいう。「偽客」と書いて「サクラ」と読ませるのは露天商などが用いた当て字が一般に広まったもの。
  • 托儿源于北京方言，上海话称撬边，粵語稱媒，古代曾被称为参市，指从旁诱人受骗上当的人，类似于枪手、捉刀或暗樁等词。通常来说，托儿被雇主所雇用，作为路過的“旁观者”在顾客面前述说雇主所售物品的长处，作出其他举动引诱顾客消费或上當，例如“房托儿”、“医托儿”等，可视为一种炒作行为。托儿不一定完全是进行欺骗行为的人，也可以引申为一些做介绍的中间人角色者，例如“婚托儿”等。
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  • サクラとは、桜の花がパッと咲いて、さっと散ることから、その場面の盛り上げ役のことをいう。「偽客」と書いて「サクラ」と読ませるのは露天商などが用いた当て字が一般に広まったもの。
  • 托儿源于北京方言，上海话称撬边，粵語稱媒，古代曾被称为参市，指从旁诱人受骗上当的人，类似于枪手、捉刀或暗樁等词。通常来说，托儿被雇主所雇用，作为路過的“旁观者”在顾客面前述说雇主所售物品的长处，作出其他举动引诱顾客消费或上當，例如“房托儿”、“医托儿”等，可视为一种炒作行为。托儿不一定完全是进行欺骗行为的人，也可以引申为一些做介绍的中间人角色者，例如“婚托儿”等。
  • Ein Lockvogel ist eine Person, die im Auftrag von Dienstleistern oder Produzenten im Sinne einer Interessenvertretung bestimmte Waren bewirbt, die der Konkurrenz abwertet oder andere Handlungen im Interesse des Auftraggebers ausführt, dabei aber die eigene Parteilichkeit verschweigt. Die Absicht hinter dem Einsatz basiert auf dem Ausnutzen von Mundpropaganda, dem Glauben potentieller Kunden auf authentische Empfehlungen (anderer scheinbar unbedarfter Kunden).
  • A shill, plant or stooge is a person who helps a person or organization without disclosing that he or she has a close relationship with that person or organization. Shill typically refers to someone who purposely gives onlookers the impression that he or she is an enthusiastic independent customer of a seller (or marketer of ideas) that he or she is secretly working for.
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  • Lockvogel (Person)
  • Shill
  • サクラ (おとり)
  • 托儿
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