Shave £27 off your Dell laptop
14 Mar 2008 | 16:50 GMT
Buy it direct from someone else
HOW DO you shave £27 off the cost of a laptop from Dell? Answer – buy from an online site instead of directly from Dell. In this case the INQ bought from Pcbuyit.
All this INQ hack wanted was an entry-level laptop. It seemed that the Dell Vostro 1000 notebook PC was something of a bargain. After all, it is advertised on the Dell business site for a mere £179.
That figure is minus taxes, of course, which here in Blighty means VAT. However, Dell requires a whopping £51 to deliver said laptop. When VAT is added the total comes to a crazy £270.32. That's nearly an extra £100.
However, searching around the web revealed that the Pcbuyit site had the Vostro 1000 in stock for a mere £20 extra - £199. When you add VAT and a shipping charge of £8, the total cost came to £243.23. Crazy, isn't it?
Incidentally, for those who are interested the Vostro 1000 sports an AMD Sempron 3600+ (2GHz) processor plus 1GB of memory and a 60GB hard drive. Not bad for an entry-level machine.
Dell is probably going to moan that the price it charges includes one year basic warranty but, hey, all that was required was a basic laptop. µ
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