As a woman, I have personally experienced salespeople trying to sell me unnecessary products or services because they guess I am naive.
This has mainly happened to me at the car dealership.
I have observed that when my wife has been with me, the salespeople do not have the same conversations with me as they do when I am there alone. It is unlucky that people try to take fortune of others to make more money, but that is how the world works. This recently happened to a friend of mine. Instead of this happening at a car dealership, this happened in her own house with an HVAC company. My friend bought her first house ever, so there was a learning curve when it came to services plus products she needed. Her central air conditioner started giving her concerns the first summer time that she lived in her house. Her temperature control would study one temperature, but warm air was blowing out of the vents instead of cool air. She did some research plus found a local HVAC company that seemed to be within her budget. The reviews were not as high as other local HVAC companies, but she had to go with what she could afford at the time. When the HVAC worker came out to service the issue, she tried to convince her to buy hundreds of dollars of services that she actually did not need. Her gut was telling her that something was off, so she called her girlfriend. Her girlfriend has a enjoyable comprehension of heating plus cooling, plus she immediately realized that she was being taken fortune of by her local HVAC company.