[techspot]Dell accidentally sells 19-inch monitors for $15 in Taiwan - Overclock.net

Rud3Bwoy · 07-01-09

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Taiwan consumer regulators have ordered Dell to honor a pricing slip-up on their website that offered 19-inch LCD monitors for only NT$500 (around $15). The pricing mistake was posted late Thursday, and while it has been fixed since, news of the supposed bargain spread quickly via email, blogs and sites like Twitter. In the eight hours before Dell corrected the listing to the intended price of NT$4,800 ($148), 26,000 people had placed orders for nearly 140,000 displays.

Dell apologized and promised to offer “reasonable discounts” to those who ordered the incorrectly-priced monitors. Naturally, people were not happy. Taiwan’s Consumer Protection Commission said it has received 471 complaints about the mix-up and ordered Dell to complete orders for customers who had only ordered one monitor. Those who had ordered more than one should receive discounts on the second and further units.

According to the agency’s statement, if Dell doesn’t follow the directive, they will consider it a violation of Taiwan’s fair trade laws and seek legal recourse.

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AMDPhenomX4 · 07-01-09

Fricking Taiwanese. So if the people had a yardsale but put a digital camera accidentaly in the free box, it should be free? Lmao

Megas3300 · 07-01-09

I've heard of the $199 GTX 280 and the $26,999 Maximus formula mobo, but this is ridiculous.

Vlasov_581 · 07-01-09

j0z3 · 07-01-09

Lolwut

GBob314 · 07-01-09

Shouldn't they honor the $15 price tag? If they don't, what is keeping any other company from raising other prices during a transaction? It is their fault, they should eat the cost, or let the people cancel their payments hassle/charge free.

The Mad Mule · 07-01-09

Wow, owned.

Jazino · 07-01-09

I might have to side with Dell on this one. No one was "out" anything as they would not have been purchasing the monitors at cost anyway.

Maybe there should be a Taiwanese Retailer Protection Commission.

I hope Dell fights it.

Argorn5757 · 07-01-09

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Originally Posted by GBob314

Shouldn't they honor the $15 price tag? If they don't, what is keeping any other company from raising other prices during a transaction? It is their fault, they should eat the cost, or let the people cancel their payments hassle/charge free.

shouldn't microsoft honor its free technet subscription?

Drackula2000 · 07-01-09

Maybe now Dell will pay more attention to there prices. They mess the prices up all time and just cancel the orders. It's about time someone put them in there place.

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Jazino PC Gamer Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Kalamazoo, MI Posts: 2,329 Rep: 140 Unique Rep: 119 Trader Rating: 23	I might have to side with Dell on this one. No one was "out" anything as they would not have been purchasing the monitors at cost anyway. Maybe there should be a Taiwanese Retailer Protection Commission. I hope Dell fights it.

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