News: Dell accidentally sells 140,000 monitors for $15 a pop

Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07...monitor_mixup/

But perhaps the funniest thing of all was the advertising present
below the entry on The Register's RSS feed, labeled thus:

"What is your recession sales strategy?"

William

sounds like a legitimate mistake. taiwan government sounds like they have
something against dell to try to force them to fulfill the orders. even
dells current sloppy management is smart enough to know that this would be a
lousy sales promotion scheme at the cost of nineteen million dollars. their
regular promotions are always issued with a limited number of units
available. wonder what dell did to **** off the taiwan government?

"William R. Walsh" <wm_walsh@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Link:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07...monitor_mixup/
>
> But perhaps the funniest thing of all was the advertising present
> below the entry on The Register's RSS feed, labeled thus:
>
> "What is your recession sales strategy?"
>
> William

"Christopher Muto" <muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> sounds like a legitimate mistake. taiwan government sounds like they have
> something against dell to try to force them to fulfill the orders. even
> dells current sloppy management is smart enough to know that this would be
> a lousy sales promotion scheme at the cost of nineteen million dollars.
> their regular promotions are always issued with a limited number of units
> available. wonder what dell did to **** off the taiwan government?
>


Taiwan is home to Acer.

China, of course, is Lenovo country.

Acer is aggressively pushing (dumping?) budget laptops in the U.S. market to
gain share.

I've never cared for Dell's globalist aspirations, so I'm kind of enjoying
this story. )

"S.Lewis" <Gossamer@interesting.com> wrote in message
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> "Christopher Muto" <muto@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:Lo2dneD2F9_o09PXnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d@speakeasy.ne t...
>> sounds like a legitimate mistake. taiwan government sounds like they
>> have something against dell to try to force them to fulfill the orders.
>> even dells current sloppy management is smart enough to know that this
>> would be a lousy sales promotion scheme at the cost of nineteen million
>> dollars. their regular promotions are always issued with a limited number
>> of units available. wonder what dell did to **** off the taiwan
>> government?
>>
>
>
> Taiwan is home to Acer.
>
> China, of course, is Lenovo country.
>
> Acer is aggressively pushing (dumping?) budget laptops in the U.S. market
> to gain share.
>
> I've never cared for Dell's globalist aspirations, so I'm kind of enjoying
> this story. )
>

that is a great observation. a few months back i posted a link to an
article about recent market share growth where acer grew at about 13% and
dell shrank about 3% if i remember correctly... acer must be a darling
company for the taiwanese government and so took the opportunity to make
dell look bad, or worse, criminal. an interesting article about acer in
the sunday times recently. it didn't cast acer as dumping, but rather that
they realized well before the others (hp, and still dell) that the business
market for purchasing computers was shrinking but the consumer market was
growing. this oversight on dell's part is significant in why they are where
they are today... and dell's answer to the problem seems to be painting
their computers colors to distinguish themselves in the marketplace.
before entering the retail market acer decided that the build to order model
was more complicated and costly than just making pre-built fully-loaded
machines that could be sold in stores or mail order. finally, they shed
their manufacturer for other makers and went direct to retail. there
certainly may be more to the story, but the article was quite flattering of
acer making several good decisions in the last several years that are now
paying off handsomely.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/te...es/28acer.html