HP has taken some heat in recent days for what appears to be a rather disorganized business plan. Pull those TouchPads from the shelves! Actually let's sell them for $99. No more TouchPads ever! OK, maybe just one more batch. We're selling off that PC business! Or would work better?

Given those mixed messages, it might not be a total surprise that one arm of HP was not aware that another department was running a TouchPad refund site. According to PreCentral.net, a Web site dubbed "HP Refund Program" popped up in Germany, which promised to refund the difference on the highly discounted TouchPads if people entered their bank account information.

For most Web-savvy people, a site that requests financial information would be a red flag. In the U.S., there have already been incidents of fake Web sites claiming to have TouchPads for sale. The German site certainly caught the attention of PreCentral, which contacted HP about it. The company said the site was a fake and promised to have its legal team reach out and "whack this site up the head."

One problem. The site is legit. HP later came back to PreCentral and told them that it contracted with an outside company, Greenova Services GmbH, to handle refunds.

"We still think it's ridiculous that they're asking for bank account info (seriously, what's so hard about a check?), but it's even more insane that the various arms of HP are so disparate that they couldn't communicate effectively that this was in fact a real refund program," PreCentral said in an update.

As Gizmodo pointed out, HP basically tried to sue itself over TouchPad refunds.

Though HP plans to discontinue the TouchPad, the tablet has been a hot commodity in recent weeks after the to $99 for 16GB and $149 for 32GB. and quickly sold out and demand recently prompted HP to of tablets to satisfy demand.

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