Dell Business Purchases - Money Saver

[konglong]

Dell always has coupons and rebates, but the best way to save money on a Dell is:

1. Check and see what you want to buy on the Business website.
2. Call Sales and purchase it over the phone while looking at your order online.

Why you ask? Let me show you by sharing how much I saved yesterday when I purchased this laptop through the business section.

Latitude D800 Price Online: $3,102.76

(Minus Price Paid)

Sub-Total: $2,632.00
Shipping: 29.00
Tax: 131.59 (5% Sales Tax-ID)
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Total Price: $2,792.59

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Money Saved over the phone: $310.17


Latitude D800 - Centrino Pentium M Processor 1.60GHz 15.4 WUXGA Display
512MB DDR, 266MHz/PC2100, 1 DIMM
NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go 4XAGP graphics w/64MB DDR
40GB,HD, 9.5MM, 5400RPM
WindowsXP PRO SP1
Internal 56K Modem
24X DVD/CD-RW Combination Drive
Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN (802.11b/g,54Mbps) miniPCI Card
OMCI 7.0 (Open Manage Client Instrumentation)
9-CELL Primary Battery
3Yr Parts + Onsite Labor (Next Business Day) + CompleteCare
9-CELL/72WHr Spare primary battery
USB Flash Storage Memory Key 64MB
Tripp Lite Notebook Surge USB Hub Bundle
Free Palm Zire ($99 retail value)

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Again, this was purchased through the business sales dept. Not the home. Not sure if home will do it. Discounts I received:

-2nd Business Day shipping dropped to $29
-Free Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN (802.11b/g,54Mbps) miniPCI Card
-FreeTripp Lite Notebook Surge USB Hub Bundle
-5% off total order with setting up 60 days same as cash
-$100 off

If you call in to Dell, the sales people can give you many discounts not found on the site. This is a nice laptop. Specs are found here: http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/produc..._notebooks.htm Estimated arrival: May 12th

Hope this helps. I thought this would be appropriate in the "Got Deals" section since it will save you money. Good Luck.

Konglong

[konglong]

Update: Dell must have received a larger order of widescreens than they thought. The laptop shipped today and will be here soon. Today is April 28th.

Konglong

[Joshua]

What exactly was the conversation like? Did you ask them for the freebies, or did they throw them in?

Did you read off the exact config to them and it was cheaper, or did you ask for discounts?

[konglong]

Yeah, exact config. Right down to the Tripp Lite Notebook Surge USB Hub Bundle. Of course, the coupons at the time are different this week. I purchased 2 of the above notebooks. But I am sure even if you are only buing one, you will still be better calling in. Right off the bat they discount your shipping. Good luck.

Konglong

[Jeffbx]

That's a good option, but there are times where they can't beat the web pricing.

There was one instance where I configured 2 servers on the web with a bunch of various discounts & promotions that happened to hit at the same time, and brought the price from $6200 down to $3800. My sales rep quoted me $5000 for the same setup, and said that any lower than that was below his cost.

So, I just bought it over the web & saved an extra $1200. I think Dell is trying their hardest to hang onto that #1 spot, and as long as it means cheap PCs for everyone, I'm all for it!

On a related note, if anyone is interested in an IBM, Compaq or other major vendor, give them a call & ask them to beat Dell's price for a similarly equipped computer. The other big vendors are so hell bent on catching up that they'll also sell below cost just to take the money away from Dell.

Gotta love the price wars!