“Dell Inc. deceived customers in a massive ‘bait and switch’ scheme to increase sales of its computer and electronic products, a New York state judge ruled Tuesday,” Karina Frayter reports for CNN.
“State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sued Dell in 2007 on behalf of hundreds of customers who claimed that the electronics company lured them into buying products with promises of attractive deals and promotions,” Frayter reports. “In reality, the lawsuit alleged, most customers were denied or misled into believing that they had been approved for low interest or financing rates.”
Frayter reports, “In a 26-page decision, Supreme Court Justice Joseph C. Teresi found in favor of the consumers. ‘Dell has engaged in repeated misleading, deceptive and unlawful business conduct, including false and deceptive advertising of financing promotions and the terms of warranties, fraudulent, misleading and deceptive practices in credit financing and failure to provide warranty service and rebates,’ Teresi said in his decision.”
Frayter reports, “The court will hold further proceedings to determine how much restitution Dell will have to pay its customers.”
Full article here.
Read the judge’s ruling here.
The Consumerist also has more about beleaguered Dell’s repeated misleading, deceptive and unlawful business conduct here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “webbyswim” for the heads up.]
Dude, you got screwed!
Sell the company and give back the money to the stockholders.
What? Dell?
I thought this was about MicroSoft.
This isn’t really a news item so much as it is official confirmation of what we’ve all known for years. It’s nice of MDN to pass it on to us.
Another case of liberal, activist judges legislating from the bench. Dell has nothing to be ashamed of. I ask the losers who sued Dell this: You want repeated misleading, deceptive and unlawful business conduct? Buy a MAC. You’ll come crawling back to the warm glow and ever loving arms of a Dell running Windows.
Your potential. Our passion.™
@Zune Tang
you should pay great attention to your insulin amounts!
@Zune Tang,
Zunny, baby, let’s do lunch sometime darling!
@NGC598,
Any news on whether or not there is or will be astronomy software for the iPod Touch?
Why do so many people use MAC (Media Access Control) when they mean Mac (short for Macintosh)? I never see WINDOWS, except when someone is “shouting.” Yes, even a Dell has a MAC address.
We need Dell to stay alive. Without the cheapest (Dell), how can one enjoy the greatest (Mac)?
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Sell these freak’n PC’s damn it! Do A N Y T H I N G !
Get that idiot punk dude back in here, that blathering fool everybody hated, at least we were selling computers when we had him.
Get Steve Ballmer on the phone. Somebody give me a chair, not that one, a light weight one………
@ Mr. Peabody
Lunch? The IT guys invited me to have lunch in the server room today! I super excited about it. Nobody gets to go in there but the IT guys. It’s where the magic happens. The hum of the Exchange Server in the Dell 4210 Rack is all the atmosphere I need to enjoy the turkey club mom packed in my lunch. Maybe I’ll charge my Zune in there too, that is, if the IT guys will let me. I wonder what they’ll want to talk about.
Maybe another time. There’s a new Subway in the food court where at the mall. I know because there used to be a Dell kiosk next to the food court.
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“Why do so many people use MAC (Media Access Control) when they mean Mac (short for Macintosh)?”
Because PC is all caps. My pet peeve is the use of Mac as CEO.
For example, “MAC would sell more computers if it wasn’t locked in” or “MAC doesn’t understand the business market.” There’s your cue, ZT!
How soon we forget Apple’s backdating of stocks options. One man’s irregularities is another’s crime of the century, eh?
Something about glass houses…
Zune! Great stuff today. Har har har!
“Nobody gets to go in there but the IT guys. It’s where the magic happens.”
For their sake, I hope they’ve got a mop, soap, sturdy locks and good soundproofing.
Oh, and something to bite down on.
I understand Zune’s view on computers now. He is clueless on the subject, but he looks up to the windows zombies in IT. This poor guy isn’t even qualified to be a part of the IT staff. I’m sure the IT staff make fun of him when he’s not around…. little tech want-to-be…
Metryq: “Why do so many people use MAC (Media Access Control) when they mean Mac (short for Macintosh)? I never see WINDOWS, except when someone is “shouting.” Yes, even a Dell has a MAC address.”
Fake Steve Jobs site would call this sort of post a “commentard” someone who is not “in” on the joke, like when FSJ posts something with intentionally wrong geography or cultural references to bait people into “correcting” him. You fell for it from Zune Tang so you get todays “commentard” award. Bravo.
Tell him what he wins Zuney.
“Tell him what he wins Zuney.”
An hour in a locked server room and half of a turkey club?
@twilightmoon, I’m “in” on the joke that Zune Tang is a gag and not a real troll, but this is not the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs forum. No Zoon for you.
Ampar: “and half of a turkey club?”
Make that a “half-eaten turkey club”
Metryq: “@twilightmoon, I’m “in” on the joke that Zune Tang is a gag and not a real troll, but this is not the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs forum. No Zoon for you.”
You still fell for it. You still get the commentard Zune award.
By the way, the Zoon is an award given out by Roughly Drafted, this is MDN, not Roughly Drafted..
Oops.
Zune Tang can hang out with all the Politically Correct Income Tax folks he wants.
Ampar’s Mop and Bucket references were just plain wrong on soooooooooo many levels.
Man, I thought MDN mistaken the company name because repeated misleading, deceptive and unlawful business conduct is the very popular tactic of Dell’s long time partner Microsoft, I guess, you become same when in bed together for too long.