Dell’s Australia arm has been slapped with a $10 million AUD (about $6.49 million) fine for “making false and misleading representations on its website about discount prices for add-on computer monitors,” the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced today. The Australian regulator said the company sold 5,300 monitors this way.

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    1 year ago

    No, but those users are probably free to launch a class action lawsuit themselves, and official government decisions make for good evidence.

    The fine usually goes back into the operational expenses of trying to keep up with the flood of complaints about shitty companies the ACCC receives everyday.

    Edited to add: IANAL and Dell have already been ordered to offer refunds in addition to the fine so a class action might not apply here. But it’s still something.

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      That’s good to know, actually. In the US, simply buying the product likely goes with an agreement not to participate in a class-action suit. Accepting the court-ordered refund definitely would.