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$10,000,000AU later....

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has fined Dell AU $10mAU (approx $6.5mUS) after a nasty little sales scheme was uncovered and reported. Dell AU would show a PC for sale, and on the side show a monitor with a price crossed out and a lower price shown as a possible add-on. Except the lower price was actually higher than if you'd navigated elsewhere in the site and added the monitor on yourself.

Pretty damn scummy! But hey, they're a corporation, what do you expect?

In addition to the fine, Dell AU is paying reparations WITH INTEREST! And probably pinky swears not to do it again.

Now, the best thing about the fine amount? I mean, $10mil seems a bit small. THE FINE AMOUNT IS MORE THAN DELL MADE WITH THEIR PRICING SHENANIGANS! So their attempt at scamming the public actually caused them to lose money on the scam! THIS is how government fines should work - if you're found to have done something deliberately abusive to the public, the fine should negate any profit that you made from what you did, AND cost you beyond that!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/dell-fined-6-5m-after-admitting-it-made-overpriced-monitors-look-discounted/

Date: 2023-08-15 08:59 pm (UTC)
kaishin108: waves by hwm (Default)
From: [personal profile] kaishin108
Well I am so glad they got fined those hefty charges. I hope they learn a lesson. That is just sick, sigh.

Date: 2023-08-15 09:15 pm (UTC)
kathmandu: Close-up of pussywillow catkins. (Default)
From: [personal profile] kathmandu
I see why you highighted this! Finally, a fine that costs more than the proceeds of the crime!

Date: 2023-08-16 11:16 am (UTC)
armiphlage: Ukraine (Default)
From: [personal profile] armiphlage
Agreed!

Date: 2023-08-15 11:17 pm (UTC)
disneydream06: (Disney Angry)
From: [personal profile] disneydream06
Well, that's a start, but I would have fined them massively more. lol........
Hugs, Jon

Date: 2023-08-26 11:32 pm (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
It is nice to see they got the fine on the right side of the crime. It probably needed to be about ten times stronger to get more than a pinky swear out of the company that it wouldn't do such things again.

Date: 2023-08-27 06:34 am (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
Yep. It's not even a slap on the wrist, and so punitive damages need to scale to corporation profits, where am offense such as this could be set at 1-3% of the profits for the year, to get the point across that this practice is not acceptable.

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