Reminds me of the recent microsoft technet free accounts. Shame MS where not forced to legally honour those!

Really doubt that, there is so much more to think about than just the raw cost of the parts to assemble the item.

so do I c my post above ,checkout tescos there always f?@king up the price ,I get loads of stuff free.

thats right,the titanic sank an iceberg , the earth is flat and the sun goes around it , have u any idea of the headache this cause a company,public and corporate image,they might honour the first 50 or so orders to help p.r. but image, is everything and there's is a bit blurry at the moment.

this practice is called bait-and-switch.
its purpose is to generate interest.
make dell honour it and they might learn to play fair.

on a side note

i live in ireland and like a previous poster mentioned, Tesco often charge more at the till
than the price displayed,but heres the strange thing:

in my town, limerick, there are 4 tescos
1. city centre branch......mixed clientelle........some mistakes at till
2. suburban branch...soutside.....middle class shoppers......mistakes at till 30% of time
3. suburban branch....northside.....mixed clientelle.............i don't shop there.
4. council estate area.........deprived area..............0% mistakes at till.


the mistakes at the till can be in tescos favour or the customers favour.
but in my opinion, the split is 90:10 in favour of tesco

coincidence.........i think not.

tesco have a no-quibble-guarantee, but how many customers would spot the mistakes in the deprived area
probably all of them
how many would spot the mistakes in the more affluent area, very few.

so the overcharging in very profitable in the affluent areas and the no-quibble-guarantee keeps them out of court.
sounds like a winner to me.

BTW......dunnes stores, tescos main competitor in ireland NEVER make mistakes at the till and don't have a no-quibble guarantee.....................go figure

thanks for reading

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I don't know about that are your stats based on personal exp' , I think there just unable to run a supermarket in some areas , it doesn't seem worth it from there point of view for a few dollars more ya know

And hell dell did it AGAIN.
On Jul.5.2009
Dell Taiwan website 'Accidentally' drop the price of latitude E4300 laptop from $1500USD to $625USD if you choose 'CPU COLOR' from black to red or blue.
This , of course, believed to have over 50,000 people had placed orders for nearly 150,000 laptops.
duh~~~

For a detailed version of what exactly happened in English, please visit http://deceptivedell.blogspot.com

Dell should not be allowed to get away with this.

i heard someone ordered about $10,000,000 USD worth of the laptop, and posted it on his blog page, only to find out by his friend that he ordered the wrong one, so he didn't get the "sale"......lol

but back to the subject. i think Dell should either really sell the products with the low price, or give the customers some kind of gift certificate that have at least more than like 3/4 of the difference.

and they should probably also fire the guy that makes their website....XD

and as of the legal issues, of course, since Dell already have the disclaimer that says they have the right to disapprove a purchase, they can refuse to give the customers the price.

however, (this is my sister's philosophy) the people in Dell should consider this: no individual would ever really want 6000 laptops or 20000 monitors sitting around in his/her living room (unless he/she wants to use the monitor as wallpaper so they can change the theme everyday or play some game with 6000 accounts so that if he/she got killed, he/she still has 5999 accounts going), especially since most of the orderers are college students, thanks to the fact that this information was passed between blogs. So why did they order it? They know that Dell would never be able to sell laptop/monitor at that low of a price, they just want to make fun of them. Although it looks funny, there's something deeper than that. This shows that the company has lost their credit.

Speaking of another Dell muck up,

I received a quote for a Studio 17 laptop that is valid until the 17th July 2009,

The salesrep states that they cannot honor the quote and refused to accept it includes GST (It clearly does),

I'm a law student, and it amazes me how Dell can do this.


If she does not honor the quote price, I will be demanding to speak with her superior.

Matt

As if anybody cares about your slap in the book.