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Updated Wednesday, July 28, 2010 10:14 am TWN, The China Post news staff

Apple to sell mispriced computers

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Technology company Apple said last night it will honor a number of mishandled orders and sell a mispriced product at NT$19,900 apiece, instead of the original NT$47,710, to qualified customers who had placed the orders.

Apple's response came after the Consumer Protection Commission and the Taipei City government Monday demanded the company to provide solution to the price mix-up by yesterday at the latest.

Apple priced its Mac Mini with 8-GB RAM at NT$19,900 instead of the original NT$47,710 on its online store on July 23 but later changed those orders back to the original price unilaterally after the mixed-up price attracted a large number of bargain hunters.

In total, customers placed orders for 41,518 Mac Minis at the bargain price, according to Yeh Ching-yuan, head of Taipei City's Law and Regulations Commission.

However, not all of these orders will go through as they were education pricing orders available only to college students or faculty or staff members. Apple has yet to confirm the number of qualified orders.

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July 28, 2010 johnny.brian@

One Apple Mac Mini per student or faculty member is reasonable enough to honor the purchase order. The rest of the orders should not be given to opportunists crooks as they called themselves bargain hunters.


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