The Taipei District Court yesterday ruled in favor of Dell Inc in a case involving mislabeling of prices on its Web site last year.
Last June and July, the company mistakenly listed two sizes of liquid-crystal-display monitors at about a 10th of their normal prices on its Web site. A 19-inch LCD monitor was priced at NT$500, while a 20-inch LCD monitor was priced at NT$999.
News of the mistake spread quickly. Within 10 hours, 26,000 people had taken advantage of the mistake and placed online orders for the monitors. About 140,000 monitors had been ordered before the company realized the pricing mistake and took the incorrect Web pages offline.
Although the company apologized for the mistake and offered to compensate buyers by giving out coupons and discounts, several buyers refused the company’s offer and demanded that Dell deliver the products and charge customers the lower prices.
The district court yesterday ruled in favor of Dell, saying that the company was not obligated to fulfill the delivery of the products because the Web site on which buyers provided their credit card information clearly stated that submitting the information did not mean the company had accepted the order.
Judges stated that customers were aware the cheap prices were a mistake and that their rights had not been infringed because they were not charged for the monitors.
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