Why reach for a book when you can teach me a lesson right here? :) My point is that these sales tactics happen in any country, regardless if it's developing or

Why reach for a book when you can teach me a lesson right here? :) My point is that these sales tactics happen in any country, regardless if it's developing or not. The difference is in the variety and scale. If businesses aren't allowed by law to do a certain thing in order to increase revenue, they will resort to other scams that the law doesn't explicitly forbid. Or they will lobby to change the laws to whatever suits them best. The scams in developed countries are much more sophisticated and nefarious, simply because they need to tip toe around the law. In this case Dell messed up by doing this in Australia, but this is surely just the tip of the iceberg of their business practices.