29 June 2010

AUSTIN,TEXAS: Dell's Decline Revealed in A Lawsuit Over Defective Computers.

NYTIMES/     A lawsuit alleges that Dell Computer of Round Rock Texas sold millions of defective computers from 2003-2005.
The "...three-year-old lawsuit against Dell show that the company’s employees were actually aware that the computers were likely to break. Still, the employees tried to play down the problem to customers and allowed customers to rely on trouble-prone machines, putting their businesses at risk. Even the firm defending Dell in the lawsuit was affected when Dell balked at fixing 1,000 suspect computers, according to e-mail messages revealed in the dispute. The documents chronicling the failure of the PCs also help explain the decline of one of America’s most celebrated and admired companies." AND..." For the last seven years, the company has been plagued by serious problems, including misreading the desires of its customers, poor customer service, suspect product quality and improper accounting."