Dell Accidentally sells 19 inch Monitors for £9 ($15)!!!

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Jul 4, 2009 12:13 AM EDT

The typo was online for a good eight hours shifting 140,000 monitors to 26,000 buyers. Well you can never have too many monitors around the bedroom.

If Dell fails to honor these sales, it will be in violation of Taiwan's fair trade laws and the government will seek legal recourse.

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So far, Dell has gone as far as to apologise for the mistake and will ‘compensate buyers’. Though what this means in practice is still a little vague.

All in all, we’ll be pretty impressed if buyers end up with a brand new 19-inch for the price of lunch.

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#1 - Sat Jul 4, 2009 12:14 AM EDT

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StarSmiles

Well Dell is big it would surprise me if they don't honor the sales mistake, I bet they got something new to back up the loss on this, I feel for who ever made the typo .

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#2 - Sat Jul 4, 2009 12:28 AM EDT

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bvdev234

Dell won't have any other choice than to honor the sales.

What about the one who made that typo!?! He should have fired by now.

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#2.1 - Sat Jul 4, 2009 4:35 PM EDT

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thirdfeast

140,000 monitors to 26,000 buyers. They will probable honor 1 per buyer, limiting the loss to 26,000 monitors.

Yikes...at $135 loss per monitor (retail) that would be $3,510,000. I wonder what manufacturing cost is. Electronics are cheap to make.

Real loss is probably under $1 mil. in my above scenario...they can afford it.

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#3 - Sat Jul 4, 2009 1:58 AM EDT

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bvdev234

Hope they could honor one monitor per buyer, at 135 for 140,000 will be around 20 million (retail).

Means, a typo cost them a fortune. I other words can say a zero cost them… Who said, zero has no value!!

It has and it is, 20m!!

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#3.1 - Sat Jul 4, 2009 4:32 PM EDT

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Viki Babbles Gonia

A similar mistake at Dell, which offered a $250 instant rebate on a $349 netbook, got me two $99 netbooks last fall!

I wasn't really even looking to buy one, I was just checking them out. But I couldn't pass up that deal. Within minutes of making the purchase, the $250 rebate had been corrected to $25, in line with the rebates offered on the other netbooks.

I kept waiting to be contacted by Dell and told to cough up $500, but it never happened.

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#4 - Sat Jul 4, 2009 9:02 AM EDT

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bvdev234

Why this is happening with Dell continuously? I’m feeling something fishy. Are the competitors able to hack into site, or somebody is hired (by competitors) working with Dell?

OR is this a publicity stunt? There won’t be this much sale as they told!

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#4.1 - Sat Jul 4, 2009 4:33 PM EDT

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Viki Babbles Gonia

It does seem a little odd that it would happen more than once. Granted, I never heard anything about others coming across the $250 rebate, though I find it incredibly difficult to believe that I was the only person who got that lucky. (Of course, I did spend $200 I hadn't been planning to spend...hmmm...).

You'd think it would be an automated process, rather than relying on the possibility of human error.

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#4.2 - Mon Jul 6, 2009 6:32 PM EDT

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Simplistic Reality

Wow!!! I wish I had known about this! lol! Somebody is going to loose there job for this.....

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#5 - Sat Jul 4, 2009 4:11 PM EDT

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bvdev234

140,000 monitors for 26,000 customers means, 5/6 monitors per head on average. There may be one who bought 10 or even 25!! You may find one and get it for 50!!

Of course some heads will roll..!!

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#5.1 - Sat Jul 4, 2009 4:34 PM EDT

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