Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted (arstechnica.com)

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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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[-] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dell's 2022 revenue was $102 billion. $6.5 million is 0.006% of their overall revenue.

To put in perspective, were I to make $75,000 annual income, 0.006% of that would be equivalent to $4.50.

EDIT

Math is hard, yo.

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