[Gllug] Linux on Dell

[Peter Cannon]

John Winters wrote:

> Christian Smith wrote:
>> And �60 for shipping? Wow, didn't realise all of Dell's margins were in 
>> the shipping and handling.
> 
> Dell have done this for a long time - it's always surprised me that they 
> don't get taken to trading standards over it because it's simple fake 
> pricing.  Given their volume, they can't be paying more than £15 for 
> overnight delivery of a PC, so the reality is that they're knocking £50 
> off the headline price of each PC and sneaking it onto the delivery 
> charge instead.
> 
> If you order 2 PCs you have to pay 2 lots of delivery too, despite it 
> being only one consignment.
> 
> If you must buy a Dell, look for the special offers in the papers with 
> free delivery.  They waggle up and down in price from day to day, but 
> can reach some very attractive levels.  Alternatively, don't buy Dell; 
> their after-sales support is shit.

Dell's sales team (If you can call em that) are targeted on 'units out 
the door' and not margin so that means they can knock them out at cost 
or even slightly less because as you say the profit is in the delivery.

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