Dell has joined the bandwagon of manufacturers warning shoppers against buying its laptops and tablets from e-commerce websites. It has put up a warning against e-commerce website Snapdeal on its website and has asked people to buy from CompuIndia instead. The warning is as follows: - Snapdeal.com is not a Dell authorized reseller and Snapdeal.com is not authorized to make any representation for and on behalf of Dell products, benefits and entitlements. - Dell products purchased from / on Snapdeal.com shall be entirely at your own risk , cost and consequences. - Dell may not honor any representations, benefits, entitlements made on Dell products by /or Snapdeal.com. It is not clear what Snapdeal did to provoke such a response from Dell. We have mailed Snapdeal asking for more details. A Dell spokesperson stated that the warning was new, but refused to state why the warning was put up now. Update: Snapdeal's response “Snapdeal.com is an online marketplace where authorized sellers list their products on the platform. We take utmost care to list products only by those sellers who have the necessary authorization to sell these products. These authorized sellers already selling offline are the ones listed on our site and are selling Dell products online through our platform. Customers can be rest assured that all the products including Dell products which are available on Snapdeal.com are genuine and eligible for warranty. Further, being an online marketplace, the pricing decision solely lies with the seller listing the products.” Not the first time: Toshiba…
