[Gllug] Linux on Dell

[Geo]

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 15:00, 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.
>
> John
Hi,
 awhile ago we ordered (against the teams wishes) 400 Dell machines , 41 did 
not work out of the box, they tried sending an engineer and he was sent 
packing for replacements  7 of those were DOA, did the company learn NAh. The 
IT team took the walk, the top 4 in one day and the next 2  a week later, 
since then ithas been chaos on wheels according to the end users.
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