Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted
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Re: Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted
#2Dell pushed a bios update that silently turned my expensive laptop into a machine that could not be used as a laptop because when I did, ie, closed the lid without shutting it down and put it in my bag it fried the mobo and subsequently would not boot.
Out of warranty (just) no way to ask Dell anything about it.
Dell are horrible. I hate them. The price has to be insanely cheap for Dell not to be just a plain old ripoff at the best of times. Actual lies, like detailed here should not surprise anyone.
Re: Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted
#3Wait you can be fined for that? The state should make a bounty program, Prime Day and Black Friday are about to be the only times I work!
Re: Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted
#4The amount of research that needs to be done to purchase even the most basic stuff online is beyond paralyzing. I hate shopping irl but I think I hate online shopping even more.
Re: Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted
#5The amount of research that needs to be done to purchase even the most basic stuff online is beyond paralyzing. I hate shopping irl but I think I hate online shopping even more.
This is how places like Costco can be worthwhile even if they aren't technically the best possible deal - I trust that if I buy something there I won't be terribly disappointed or overtly screwed over even if I end up paying a bit more than I absolutely had to.
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#6I'm surprised this became a fine, since I thought that most people who've seen enough shady tricks like this have already been trained never to look at the "original" or "pre discount" prices, only the actual current price.
Re: Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted
#7The amount of research that needs to be done to purchase even the most basic stuff online is beyond paralyzing. I hate shopping irl but I think I hate online shopping even more.
This is how places like Costco can be worthwhile even if they aren't technically the best possible deal - I trust that if I buy something there I won't be terribly disappointed or overtly screwed over even if I end up paying a bit more than I absolutely had to.
That's been my experience so far when getting electronics from costco. Seems like they do a decent job of curating decent stuff.
Re: Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted
#8The amount of research that needs to be done to purchase even the most basic stuff online is beyond paralyzing. I hate shopping irl but I think I hate online shopping even more.
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Re: Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted
#9Dell pushed a bios update that silently turned my expensive laptop into a machine that could not be used as a laptop because when I did, ie, closed the lid without shutting it down and put it in my bag it fried the mobo and subsequently would not boot. Out of warranty (just) no way to ask Dell anything about it. Dell are horrible. I hate them. The price has to be insanely cheap for Dell not to be just a plain old rip…
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Re: Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted
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This is how places like Costco can be worthwhile even if they aren't technically the best possible deal - I trust that if I buy something there I won't be terribly disappointed or overtly screwed over even if I end up paying a bit more than I absolutely had to.
That's been my experience so far when getting electronics from costco. Seems like they do a decent job of curating decent stuff.
They have a simple trick - they make the vendor eat any returns.
So vendors won't ship them shit, because they know they'll eat the returns.
I'm sure they do additional curation on top of that, but making them stand behind the product probably gets 80% of the way there.