Dell sued over fraud allegations
A California law firm has slapped Dell with a class action lawsuit charging the computer giant with "systematically deceiving" its customers.
The suit, filed in San Francisco County Superior Court on 14 February, seeks class action status in California and accuses Dell of "bait and switch" practices, false advertising, fraud and deceit in sales and advertising, and breach of contract. The law firm behind the suit, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, publicised it on Wednesday.
The case centres on the allegation that Dell advertises low prices for its computers, but people who try to purchase a machine at the advertised price find it's no longer available for that price. Often those customers wind up with another computer, the suit said.
