[Gllug] RE: Dell servers

[Joel Bernstein]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 06:54:16AM +0000, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Monday 13 Dec 2004 18:03, David Abbishaw wrote:
> > A relative I mine tried to buy one of the cheap dell servers on Friday,
> > called Dell up after the website got stuck and was told they were out of
> > stock.  If anyone hears different please let me know and I'll get them to
> > have another go.
> 
> Looks suspicious to me - that's about the 20th person I've heard tried to get 
> one of these non-existent servers.  Are times so hard that Dell have to 
> resort to spurious advertising to generate interest?

Isn't it more likely that Dell decided that they could a) clear out old
stock, and/or b) attract lots of shoppers to their e-commerce site, by
slashing the price on a load of servers? AFAIK the PE1650 [isn't that
the server they discounted?] is a relatively old line, so it seems
perfectly plausible that they slashed prices, sold off their remaining
stock in hours, and are now laughing all the way to the bank...

I'm usually the cynical one, but it doesn't seem ridiculous that they
sold out of the stock they wanted to clear, and then stopped... Of
course if they've accepted many more orders than they can fill it's very
dishonest, but this doesn't yet look like that to me.

/joel
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