Mobile Magazine » price error http://www.mobilemag.com Gadgets, Smartphones, Android Tablets, iPhone, iPad and all the latest tech you'd expect. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:02:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Price Error: HTC Flyer Android tablet is not $99 from Best Buy http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/10/06/price-error-htc-flyer-android-tablet-is-not-99-from-best-buy/ http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/10/06/price-error-htc-flyer-android-tablet-is-not-99-from-best-buy/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:47:38 +0000 Michael Kwan http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=122109 The webOS tablet got slashed down to $99 across the board and people were scrambling to get their hands on one. Now, it seems that the same thing is happening to the HTC Flyer Android tablet, because it's showing up as a mere $99 on the Best Buy website.

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Do you remember that HP TouchPad fire sale that happened a short while ago? The webOS tablet got slashed down to $99 across the board and people were scrambling to get their hands on one. Now, Best Buy went and dropped the price of the HTC Flyer Android tablet, and then renegged on it saying it’s a “pricing error.”  Did they do it as a publicity stunt? Who knows, either way Tech Crunch reported on it, got a bunch of people excited and then pissed off. It was showing up as a mere $99 on the Best Buy website.

Best Buy eventually put up signs saying this price drop was an error and they won’t honor the reduced price. They’ll gladly sell you a Flyer at the full $299 price, of course, but that’s not at all the smoking $99 deal that we all want. Even so, maybe you’ll be lucky enough to find someone at your local Best Buy that will honor it… or perhaps a lawyer.

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Nothing quite says happy holidays like receiving a pink slip from your boss. The recession seems to have hit Dell pretty hard. The company has already dropped out of second place among worldwide computer makers, giving that honor to Acer instead. Hit with hard times, Dell is preparing some layoffs and, well, the employees don’t seem very happy about it.

More specifically, we’re hearing that 700 of Dell’s 4500 employees will be laid off by June 2010. That’s about 15% of its workforce, so this is no small downsizing. And I’m guessing that some of the early layoffs have to do with the people who maintain the website.

If you go over to the Dell website, you’ll find that it is currently absolutely riddled with price erros. You can see the rather basic-looking laser USB mouse shown here selling for the astronomical price of $3,999.99.

On the flip side, an incredible Xeon E3110 machine is being listed at a mere $16.99. There’s also a 3.2GHz computer going around for $10.99. Don’t expect Dell to honor these rock bottom prices, but they might gladly take your four grand for that mouse.

Do you think these price errors are thanks to some disgrunted ex-employees? Seeing how many of these errors have yet to be fixed, that’s a very real possibility.

Source: Crunchgear

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