Dan,
I don't believe that Dell knocks hundreds of dollars off the price of a still sealed, unshipped system because they change the shipping address from the initial one.
No need to respond. You believe that they do, and are certainly entitled to your conclusion - perhaps you are correct and I am not.
One more piece of data, in case you missed it a couple of days ago. The refurb'ed laptop I bought has to have the motherboard replaced (the second DIMM slot only recognizes 16M of the second DIMM). Dell is sending someone to my home to do the replacement. I've only ordered two systems from them, and they're sending someone to my home to fix one of them! If that's their level of service for l'il-old-me, what kind of service do you think the corporate accounts get? Why would there be a need to return all those systems that aren't working if Dell is sending out service people to fix them?
Finally, ask yourself if there are as many problems with 8100 systems as you seem to think, then a) why hasn't the press reported this, and b) why is Dell still shipping and promoting the 8100?
A few large cancelled orders makes much more sense. And since Dell's contribution to the market is their high-speed manufacturing/configuration process, yes, it would actually cost more to warehouse custom configurations that haven't been ordered (just ask Compaq, HP, IBM, etc.) than to sell the boxes for a little less.
And no need for you to respond, either. This message is really for the people who still might think that your answer is the correct one. <G>
Dave |
