Dell losing millions on $15 19" monitors (2009-07-05)

Written by Andreas G 05 July 2009 12:04 An employee at Dell Taiwan probably made the biggest mistake of his life when he posted an ad for a 19" monitor for only 500NTD (15USD) at Dell's website. The ad was up for 8 hours and during this time 26,000 customers ordered over 140,000 monitors, real worth over 20 million USD. What could have just been a clumsy mistake could end up costing Dell millions as the Taiwanese authorities stepped in. Dell first announced that it had made an error and informed customers that it could cancel the orders, but the authorities... [read full story]                    

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