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HP agrees million-dollar settlement over "false advertising" on PCs, keyboards
(www.techradar.com)
4 million dollars
So, a slap on the wrist.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
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It’s not like HP is rolling in coin, but even for them $4m is probably less than they made from the actual infraction. Make it all make sense.
These fines should really be based on the infraction profits times 100. To make sure you ripped out all benefits of doing these scams. Company goes bankrupt? Too bad. Why would we want to keep illegally operating businesses around anyway.
Fines are for the poor. Always have been. Rich people pay “fines” like you wipe your ass.
And then suddenly they start complaining when a Luigi turns up
As if I needed more reasons to dislike HP as a company
The lawsuit applies to customers who bought HP desktops, laptops, mice or keyboards advertised as being discounted for more than 75% of the time between June 5, 2021 and October 28, 2024.
One of the examples given was a $999.99 HP All-in-One machine bought by a plaintiff in September 2021. It was advertised as having $100 off, marked at $899.99, however it had been sold at that lower price since April 2021.
Oh so many companies would be guilty of something like this
Why the fuck false advertising is in quotes?
When you see quotes in headlines, it's because someone said those exact words. Journalist don't use the sarcastic "quotes".
They don’t want to get sued, probably.
"False news"
"If you put everything in quotes is like other people said it and you can't get in trouble."
Lol. 4 mil is absolutely nothing
Dr. Evil would tend to disagree.
MUAHAHAHAHA!
HP sucks, their products suck, and I hope they crash and burn
I had an HP laptop that melted, but they voided the warranty when I unplugged it to stop it melting.
I avoided their products since then. Fucking $1200 gone.
I also have an HP printer and if I were to ever use HP toner it’s over $1000 for the 4 toners. But the generics are way under $100.
I avoid HP!
I once had a HP laptop, then the hinge got rougher, it became harder to open it up, then the screen popped off and the hinge broke
I had 2 HP laptops with hinge issues, they broke the motherboard
clunker dunker blunker
Good! Fuck HP and their anti-consumer practices!
Yeah ok I guess, but the fact that they settled means they likely would have had to pay much more had this gone to court.
Hasn’t Kohl’s done this for years?
the difference is HP is the actual manufacturer who sets MSRP. I don’t think Kohls manufactures anything, they are just a retailer.
Yes, and JC Penny crashed and burned after switching their marketing strategy away from fake "regular prices."
Yeah, I read that. New leadership felt that the eternal sales stuff was bad and changed to "everyday low prices" sort of thing thinking the customers would appreciate the transparency. Nope, the fake "on sale" works.
It's all over the place in sales across every industry. I think it is dumb but I am surprised someone actually got a lawsuit against it.
My naive reading is the difference here is HP slapped a discount sticker on it without changing the price.
Where Kohls, et. al. set the price extremely high and then always have it "on sale."
Now, how companies get away with doing the same thing for Black Friday, no idea
Kohls doesn't have it always on sale. They carefully rotate stock each week to half their stuff is up front and on sale, while the other half is in the back at normal prices. The staff will direct you awat from the normal priced stuff - they don't want anyone to pay the normal price, they just need to have it as normal price once in a while so they can claim to have a sale. (they fear if you buy the normal price you will be mad enough to not come back and repeat sales are worth more than one full price transaction)
the difference is HP is the actual manufacturer who sets MSRP. I don't think Kohls manufactures anything, they are just a retailer.