<story><title>Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/dell-in-hot-water-for-making-shoppers-think-overpriced-monitors-were-discounted/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>I just straight-up ignore &amp;quot;sale&amp;quot; claims now, unless I have personal experience that says this really is a sale. This is mostly limited to groceries where I definitely know that the $4 bag of chips really is on sale at $1.50. Along with all the active deception, I also just count all the times I&amp;#x27;ve gone price shopping for non-trivial things and the prices I see and how festooned with the word &amp;quot;sale&amp;quot; the page is is simply uncorrelated.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/dell-in-hot-water-for-making-shoppers-think-overpriced-monitors-were-discounted/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alpaca128</author><text>&amp;gt; In some cases, consumers paid more for the add-on monitor advertised as &amp;quot;discounted&amp;quot; than they would have paid if they had bought it as a stand-alone product&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s insane. Reminds me of LTT&amp;#x27;s secret shopper incident where they rejected Dell&amp;#x27;s suggested extra warranty package and then Dell included &lt;i&gt;two&lt;/i&gt; mutually exclusive warranty packages that you cannot even intentionally select simultaneously on their website.</text></comment>