Loading ...A former Dell sales manager coughed up the inside scoop on how to get the best deal from Dell. This was posted to The Consumerist and Dell shortly fired off a take-down notice.
Just linking over to the story, no intentions of reposting it here… but the scoop seems to be to reprice the same machine you want every different way you can (Home, Office, Business, As Advertised, Etc.) and compare all the prices for the same machine, because they will all be different… joy.
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June 22nd, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Was tip #1 “Don’t buy a Dell” because that would be my plan.
June 22nd, 2007 at 9:52 pm
LOL, your timing is strangely accurate. 2 of the people I work with got two separate Dell machines. One a beefy machine for handling large scale software builds and one a fairly fast desktop machine… the build machine (3 months old?) has had 3 hard drive failures and the desktop’s network card drops 10 times a day with Vista, and has had the motherboard replaced once already (2 months old?)
Unbelievable how shoddy work around Dell is these days… everyone says buy Alienware for a nice stable desktop, but good lord, it’s like 3x the price.
You can build your own certainly, but not an option for everyone I suppose