A question? Does it happen that the bait is an improvement so a pleasant surprise?
With fake pics, no, but in some cases I have met ladies with obviously photoshopped/edited pics who were better than the pics.
Back in the early days of the Internet, fake pics were more the norm than they are now, with the advent of Tineye and Google Images and other programs that can spot fakery. There was an agency I used in Connecticut 1999-2002 era that used consistent fake pics, but I never found any of their ladies so unattractive as to reject them. These agencies operated then, as some do now, on the theory that a guy who is really horny, with a raging hard on, wants immediate satisfaction and isn't going to turn away a reasonably attractive woman. And in many instances, especially if the client has had a few drinks, all women start to look better anyway. So this time-honored theory of bait and switch operation is still somewhat valid and successful. It's just harder to pull of now than it was in the early days of the Internet. Also, in those days you didn't have boards like MERB to report on the fakery. It was more a buyer beware/Wild West landscape, especially in Connecticut back in those days. In those days it was adventurous because you really didn't know what would show up at your door. I did receive one pleasant surprise with that agency, but in most cases they were okay woman who were attractive enough, so to speak, but nothing special and not worth a repeat.