I have to assume this was not only one person, HP doesn't do anything for one person, so I'd have to imagine at a few hundred (or thousand) at least went out. T

I have to assume this was not only one person, HP doesn't do anything for one person, so I'd have to imagine at a few hundred (or thousand) at least went out. This doesn't seem even that good a deal, the cheapest model, which I'd have to presume this to be is $649 US currently, so I can't imagine it was even worth their effort to action something like this, literally mass recalling them from the delivery trucks en route like they screwed up and sent everyone a $3000 laptop. More like some middle manager forced some random behavior because they screwed up the listing and didn't want to be held accountable to their boss personally. If it were actually worth more, it would be interesting to get in touch with others that had the same crap pulled on them and get HP on the TV news for being a Christmas Grinch and just a really nasty company in general for doing so to customers. As said, this could be construed as illegal behavior if anyone bothered to lawyer up for it, but for 300-400 return, just swear never to buying anything HP again, and tell all your friends what scum they are. I have never had anyone have a good experience with an HP laptop, consumer low-end ones particularly, and already tell everyone I know to avoid them if asked.