Dell was fined for fraudulent and deceptive advertising

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Dell was fined $4 million for fraudulent and deceptive advertising around PCs sold to consumers.

Dell was ordered Sept. 15 to pay a $4 million fine in New York for misleading consumers about financing terms, warranties and rebates on their PCs. Around the same time, the computer maker found itself embroiled in a civil trial in New Orleans involving that city’s crime detection cameras.

New York’s attorney general’s office claimed in a suit filed in 2007 that Dell was deceptive and misleading in its advertising, and that as a result some customers in the state were saddled by high credit rates. A year later, the state’s Supreme Court ruled against Dell, finding it guilty of fraud, false advertising and other related charges.

Dell was fined $4 million and agreed to change how it advertised its products as well as its financing practices.

I live in NY and they raised the price on an item and then discounted it on sale by the same amount they raised the price.

is that legal!!