Online dealer makes Komplett hash of DRAM price

Our email inbox was inundated today with complaints concerning a bargain basement price for DRAM offered and then withdrawn post- credit card-debited sale on a UK computer dealer site.

Komplett.co.uk, an online computer reseller of computer components, earlier this week offered a 512Mb DRAM module for £13. Owing to "gross human error" this price was offered at £82 less than cost price, the company explained to customers in an email. Punters flooded into the site, as is the way with too-good-to-be true bargains, to buy the DRAM, leaving the company with a loss of £305K if it had fulfilled all the orders (some lucky punters were shipped with DRAM before the error had been spotted).

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