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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: GraceZ who wrote (27120)2/12/2005 9:34:03 PM
From: Mike JohnstonRead Replies (3) of 306849
 
When I want to buy new computers, I submit numerous online orders to Dell spread out through the quarter until I get the price I'm willing to pay for my work computers. If you hit the jackpot on their sales optimizing software you can save significant money within a short period of time.

If Dell is willing to sell you a computer for a price that you think is a jackpot, you are only getting what you pay for. Inferior components or maybe they got a special deal on a bunch of 1 Ghz Celerons that Intel is trying to get rid off.
One time i responded to an ad for a $349 computer from Dell. However when i called to order one, they refused to sell it to me since i am not a small business but an individual investor (the ad was running in the newspaper for individual investors)

Dell used to be a great shop for high quality, leading edge, top of the line pc's. Now they are basically a mass market outfit that uses low performance and cheap components to squeeze an extra penny of profit.

In the interest of disclosure:
My wife has a dell laptop 1.5 years old, in which a hard drive had to be replaced twice and one day i had to spend six hours (!)on the phone with dell trying to get a modem to work before i finally gave up.
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