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Another "pricing error" by Dell aye? I went through this when the 8800gt's came out. An MSI OC'd 8800GT for $207... I ordered 2. Multiple posts and calls and chat sessions later (4 months), I got PNY's vanilla 8800gt's for the grand discounted price of $247 per card. (They took $100 off the purchase of both at the time). This is why I'll never buy any "to-good-to-be-true" deal from Dell again. Because in Dell's case... it is almost always too good to be true.
 
sachem87184 said:
This is not an example of being opportunistic. It's an example if knowing up-front it's a obvious pricing error and then trying to exploit a company for being human. People that think otherwise make me sick because that's why other countries looks down upon us quite often. It takes the same amount of time to call the company and tell them of their mistake as it does to try and exploit them.



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But they aren't human, it's a corporation. a very LARGE corporation that has many steps in place for posting items on the website. Someone makes the page and posts it. Do they not proof anything before putting it in production?
I know in Texas if you advertise a price you must honor that price, unless you print a retraction and post it in your store. Maybe we need to start holding online retailers to a standard. If you post a price on an item erronioulsy, instead of just pulling the page and sitting on everyones money for a few days, you need to make a statement on the page that there was a pricing error and immediaitely return the money that was taken.

I don't want to hear the BS that it takes X amount of days to return it. IF you can pull it in 5 seconds, you can return it in 5 seconds. This is the 21st century, not 1982.
 
Good points of discussion Lebowski

Lebowski said:
I don't want to hear the BS that it takes X amount of days to return it. IF you can pull it in 5 seconds, you can return it in 5 seconds. This is the 21st century, not 1982.
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This though, even though were in 2009, banking systems do not work this way. They need AT LEAST 1 business day to post an item and 1 Business day to return it(But sometimes it can be done on a per account basis on the same business day, but 1 day has to pass for the fed to get the amounts.). I know this as a fact, because of the job I work in and understanding the work it takes to post money in the federal reserves to allocated either debited or checked moneys.
 
sachem87184 said:
Well osrk, lets put it this way, I didn't purchase but I made a call to Dell to verify the price when the deal was posted. So, by interacting with this situation I think I gave myself the right to talk in here if I want to. I've been following this thread with a smile on my face since day one.


Really? I didn't know Dell posted statistics like this on the web. Could I have a Link?

By saying this I already have a feeling that this whole response was not driven by the impulse to help.


Also, I'm sorry that an automated system sent you an e-mail from an already derived shipping system that doesn't know if it is an un-common pricing error.

This I do though not agree with, but we have to keep in mind that this is not some mom and pop company that calls everyone in person when they make a purchase.

The stoplight comment doesn't work in this scenario. If you said "whether if that stop light is red and the perpendicular side hasn't turned green, and you know your supposed to not do it but you accelerate anyway," I would agree.


Exploiting a company in this situation doesn't mean you used coupon tricks or anything like that, it means that you purchased with the knowledge that this was a pricing error. Tell me of a company that's still in business that consistently sells items below purchase value, and is happy with large margin losses.
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1. You need a life. While you being a moral compass for all of us on the forum why not help Dell out with their ethical issues (ie taking advantage of labor, dumping computers in under developed nations to avoid disposal costs, and laying off workers in America to get cheaper labor overseas). I haven't heard you pat yourself on the back about those so I assume you haven't done so.

2. Look at the hardocp thread and then go look at the massive thread on slickdeals.

3. Well I guess they ignored Mr. Do Gooder's phone call about the price mistake because you said you made them aware of it immediately! Wow guess that was a waste of time.

4. You're right they're a multi national multi billion dollar who spent millions on their website to make sure things like this do not happen. Oh wait whoops!

5. Unless you have some sort of super hero vision you won't be able to see what color the stop light is perpendicular to your path.

6. At the time maybe it wasn't a pricing error. The gtx 280's at buy.com shipped and everyone thought they were a pricing error.

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7. My last post in this thread. I grow tired of people telling me I exploited a multi billion dollar company who if given the chance would take all of my money and leave me homeless.
 
Hahaha

People fighting people fighting people fighting people fighting people over the internet....about nothing.

Get over it guys. Lesson learned. If it's too good to be true, it probably is.
 
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