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HP agrees to $4M settlement over claims of “falsely advertising” PCs, keyboards (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

$4 M is nothing. It would be far more effective to target the executives who implemented this scheme. No one is going to risk getting assigned to 10 years mandatory community service as a live-in junior janitor at a infectious disease institution for a slightly bigger bonus.

[–] adarza 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

i frequent their online storefront almost weekly. there's still (and always has been) instances of the practice on their site.

and they are hardly the only ones that do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Well, after that hefty settlement payout, I doubt the average consumer will be fleeced by these practices ever again!