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Unless that’s more than they made with their misleading pricing, that’s not really a punishment. Fines for companies need to be bigger or they’re not really deterred from shady behaviour.

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Vorticity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
From the article:

These tricky methods led to shoppers spending over $2 million AUD (about $1.3 million) on Dell monitors from August 2019 to December 2021, according to the ACCC.

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- StudioLE@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s assuming they were only using the tactics during those exact dates, but I imagine that’s just the period the prosecutors could prove.
  
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