Dell Screws up, Offers Axim for $79

[Jason]

Seems Dell make a small pricing mistake on their new Axim X3i on monday night, offering the Axim for $79 instead of $300. Then after pulling the Ad and replacing it with the same price even more oders came in. They pulled the ad early tuesday morning and will not honor the pricing mistake.

Check out the full details here.

[Prometheus]

one question

what is an axim?

[Jason]

Umm. . . Your kidding right? A true geek would know. Its a Dell branded PDA

[Uranium-235]

no! A true geek would build thier own PDA

[Jason425]

no.. i didn't know what it was ether. a true geek doesn't need a pda

[Jason]

Yep,
Im not worthy

Im not worthy

I only own a lowly IPAQ 3955

Mercy oh great geekly one.

[Prometheus]

im 15 i have no need of a pda yet

the problem with this is that brick and mortarstores usually seem more likely to honor mistakes of these kinds because they have to deal with the customer on the spot. If Dell can just not pick up the phone, it makes it a lot easier for them to ignore customer backlash. I know plenty of times that in a brick/mortar store that they had significant pricing discrepancies and the manager is very happy to quickly take down the sign and keep the customer happy by giving him the price that is promised. If you can't trust what is posted, why bother reading it?

well i have pda acer n10 got it for free thats only reason i got one.. they pretty useless but i got CF wireless card so i can acces net at home when i get my new wireless equipment set up.. lazy haha

[Jason425]

word.. dell is using the "protection of (in this case) the telephone" whereas in person stores have no protection