New Dell Radeon 8500 ETA! There's HOPE!

[lain]

Dear Dell Customer,

In regards to the status of your order, #66XXXXXX.

Although we had anticipated being able to ship your order sooner, we are unable to ship your order until 12/3/01. If you do not want to wait, you may cancel your order and receive a prompt refund (by calling 1-800-847-4098 x66966). If you do not tell us that you want us to continue the order despite the delay, your order will be automatically canceled on Tuesday, October 30, 2001. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.

If you do not wish to call please hit the reply button on this message and let us know that you will consent to the delay and your order will not be canceled.

Again we must have your consent before end of business day Tuesday, October 30, 2001. Please reply.

Thank you,

Dell software And peripherals

 

[Zarich]

Im glad a due date of 12/3 is hope for you.. for most others its pure Crap!

 

[spoma]

How could this be good news? Is this just a problem with Dell or maybe this is the final draw saying to stay away from the 8500. I don't know! What does everyone think?

 

[Pocatello]

This is really funny. You will be able to buy a R8500 at a lower price by that time somewhere else.

 

[Killrose]

Ati ought to have a decent set of drivers out by then.

 

[AA0]

its obviously DELL trying to make you cancel your order. Why wait that long when you can go out and grab a 8500 from your local store right now? I have one and I paid less than OEM for a retail box with games.

I hate it when a company makes an error, and won't suck up and take it. I guess its easier just to screw your customers.

 

[sash1]

Why not just get it at newegg?

Link here

It's only $199 and you'll get it in about 5 days or less.

 

[spoma]

AAO
where did you get a retail version for less than you can buy an oem version right now. The oems are going for under $200. where can you get a retail version for that?

 

[Accreta]

I ordered mine on 10/24:
Dell:

"Estimated Ship Date
--------------------
We estimate that your order should ship on or before 12/10/01.
Software and accessories orders will ship within 7 business days of your order.
Although we do not anticipate a delay in your order, we cannot guarantee the shipping
date because occasionally we run into unexpected delays in manufacturing.

We would not expect any delay to extend beyond 30 days from the date
of your order and if this should happen, we will keep you posted on
the status of your order. "

12/10?????? You've got to be kidding....

I hope it's worth the wait!

 

[thenacnud]

Well Dell has permantly lost me as a customer. I ordered the card on 10/3/01. They withdrew money from my account on 10/5/01. Now I get this crap email that it will be 12/3/01. That's 2 months!!!!!!! That they have my money!!!!! Well yes Dell did make me cancel my order, but they also lost my business forever.

 

[taylor34]

Well at least they gave you till tuesday. I got an email today at noon that said I had till the end of the day today to contact them before they cancelled my order. WTF? Since when has dell automatically cancelled orders? I've never heard of them doing that. Luckily I got home at 4 to get the email--otherwise I would have had it cancelled because I was working and couldn't respond in a 5 hour window. I hate dell. Is there anywhere I can pick up a retail card for $250 to $270? I can't bring myself to spend $300 on something I could get in a month for $203. Thanks

Taylor34

 

[SithSolo1]

I haven't gotten any email from DELL in a while. i ordered on the 4th. When I go to check my estimated ship date it takes me to the Dell care page.

 

[gplracer]

Sith Solo i am in the same boat. I ordered on 10/4 and have never heard anything from them. I think i am going to give up. I might bite the bullet and go get a ti 200. I want a new cpu so I just do not see paying the price of the ti500. It is not that much faster but it is a lot more. Any oppinions anyone?

 

[Zarich]

Do what im gonna do.. go halfway and get the gainward geforce 3 for 245 shipped.

 

[richleader]

I just ordered that from Newegg, it's been two days and they haven't shipped yet. :|

 

[tazdevl]

Ordered 10/2 and got the same email today.

 

[AA0]

as I said, I got it from a local store. They won't offer it on the internet because its too new, and they really don't sell to anyone unless you're local over the internet either. Finding one good local store is better than all of the internet combined for buying new hardware.

 

[galperi1]

I really wonder what's going on with Dell. I ordered about 11 PM on 10/2 and I finally received my 8500 yesterday. I'm not trying to brag, but I see others that ordered before I did and still have not received theirs... This is really odd. I feel kinda bad that others who ordered before me still don't have theirs

 

[Techno]

To bad none of u guys live in Brandon Florida, i just went to the local best buy and saw 20 retail Radeon 8500's in stock (on the floor for all i know there could be more in the back) picked up one and looked at it and then put it back cause i have a Gainward GF3.

 

[DaMenace]

What time did you order. and time zone?

9:52 10/2 Central. Mine has been delayed to the 8th of november

 

[digim0rtal]

I was gonna hold out on this one until I got the card. This was until today when I received an e-mail from Dell saying that if I didn't confirm by the end of the day my order was cancelled. I'll NEVER order another thing from Dell if I can help it. Really, in these trying times, it's really ridiculous for Dell to lose customers by doing something this ludicrous. Oh well, I'm sure that both Dell and ATi have now lost a LOT of current and future business, I'll stick with newegg.com for all of my computer hardware needs!

 

[ctk1981]

Ordered mine on 10/3. I said id wait, pisses me off big time though..lousy sum b!tches. To think Ive actually referred three people to buying a dell before I started building them myself...oh well. Pretty soon my retail boxed XP 1700 will be coming (162 dollars shipped) and that will be the last component of the computer..besides the dumb video card. Debating about ordering the cheapest AGP video card I can so I can at least get it running and install the OS. Then when my R8500 ships I can slap that in place of the el cheapo I bought.

Either way you cut it, this deal sux! Only positive thing I can see out of it is, hopefully..the drivers will be solid and offer some improvement on performance. Probably just wishful thinking, guess I should be satisfied with good IQ and playable/solid framerates. Now im babbling...time to shut up.