Dell Australia is paying for something many of its peers are guilty of.
  • HeavyDogFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    Unless that’s more than they made with their misleading pricing, that’s not really a punishment. Fines for companies need to be bigger or they’re not really deterred from shady behaviour.

    • vortic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      From the article:

      These tricky methods led to shoppers spending over $2 million AUD (about $1.3 million) on Dell monitors from August 2019 to December 2021, according to the ACCC.

      So, yes, they were fined about five times more than their sales figures which was certainly more than their profits in those monitors.