Dell Taiwan slammed by second pricing mishap

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By Matthew DeCarlo, TechSpot.com
Published: July 6, 2009, 9:36 AM EST

For the second time in less than one month, Dell’s Taiwan website has overlooked a major pricing error. This time, discounts were being applied to certain CPU configurations on the Latitude E4300. Dell is handing out a 20,000 NT (just over $600) discount to those who ordered the wrongly priced system. The loopy behavior was reportedly discovered yesterday.

Taiwan consumer regulators recently forced the company to honor a pricing mishap, after selling approximately 140,000 19” LCD displays for around $15. In response to the drastic oversights, Dell Taiwan has closed its online store. There is presently no schedule for when the store will reopen.

I think it’s about time the US store has one of these slip-ups – and they should email me when it happens.

Dell Taiwan slammed by second pricing mishap - TechSpot News

Dell accidentally sells 19-inch monitors for $15 in Taiwan
By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com
Published: July 1, 2009, 1:56 PM EST

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.

Dell accidentally sells 19-inch monitors for $15 in Taiwan - TechSpot News

[YMAA]

You know this last one was intentional.

[Corvetteguy]

They are shutting down while their data entry guys take a course on how to use a keyboard.

[Gneisenau]

You know this last one was intentional.

LOL proabably a guy at the site that wanted a dell laptop on the cheap. I wouldn't be suprised if someone tried that, then had a friend place the order. Especially after they got stuck with the last one.