Rediculous deal at Dell Small Business

[marty53]

At the small business section. I selected the Dimension 8200:

Pentium 4 2.0ghz
246mb pc800 rdram
Win XP Home
Office XP small business
20 Gig ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive
48x Max variable CD ROM
No monitor
No speakers
Deselect the warranty

Total at: $939.00

Then continue: and it lists these Promotions:

Special Offers -

- Additional $250 off with purchase of 2.0 or 2.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor. Dell Small Business purchases only. Expires 3/13/2002

- Double Your Memory FREE or Save $100 via Mail-in Rebate On select systems. Expires 3/13/2002

- FREE Ground Shipping! Promotion Extended! Expires 3/20/2002


So as I understand it, you print out the rebate forms here: http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/topics/segtopic_mail_in_rebate_wk3.htm

and on top of that free shipping!!!!

so....

$939.00
- 250.00 (rebate)
- 100.00 (or double memory)
------------
$ 589.00 SHIPPED


sounds good.

Martyn Smith

 

[Rally1]

repost and also on tech_bargains.com

great deal though

 

[tazmania99]

Dunno why?! When I customized the system, the lowest I got is $1,009, not $939. How you get $939?

 

[Bink]

Sorry, this is incorrect - the $250 comes off instantly - the rebate is only $100, so the true price is $839

Also, please note that the TechBargains post refers to a deal in the Dell Home section - this one is for Small Business, which I believe charges sales tax (not 100% sure though)

I am fishing for a Dell deal right now, but nothing seems compelling - it is depressing to see that the PCs were waaayyyy cheaper last week!

 

[Tung]

 

[xDrAGoNx]

i got on the dell dimension 4400 deal for 477 shipped (w/40gb hdd upgrade) and i'm very pleased with it.

This deal sounds great to me also! The only thing i'm am unsure about is how well RDRAM actually performs compared to pc2100 DDR ram? If there is a significant jump in performace, this would be more appealing to me then my dimension 4400.

however for this deal the hdd takes a hit as well as the cd-r (but who these days can get a good cd-rw for cheap?) and the speakers arent such a big loss.

If the price is as he claims it is, this is a great deal. Those of you who didnt get on the 4400 deal, i would consider this one strongly.

 

[marty53]

The $250 definitely does not come off instantly, I am fairly sure it is a mail in. I think a call to Dell is the only way to find out. I think it is for real.

Martyn

 

[Radiation]

It is an instant rebate thing...

Discount List

Radiation

 

[lizardboy]

<< The $250 definitely does not come off instantly, I am fairly sure it is a mail in. I think a call to Dell is the only way to find out. I think it is for real.

Martyn >>



wrong - i placed an order with dell small business yesterday...discount is instant

 

[Freebie Hawk]

And don't forget to ad your coupons too!

 

[lizardboy]

here's the deal i bought yesterday:

Dimension® 4400 Series,Pentium® 4 Processor at 1.6 GHz Qty: 1 Unit Price: $689.00

Memory: 128MB DDR SDRAM
Keyboard: Dell® Enhanced Quiet Key Keyboard
Monitors: Video Ready w/o Monitor
Video Cards: 64MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 4X AGP Graphics Card with TV-Out
Hard Drive: 40GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive
Floppy Drive: 3.5 in Floppy Drive
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
Mouse: Logitech USB Mouseman® Wheel
Broadband Ready/ Ethernet Network Card: No Network Card Requested
Modem: No Modem Requested
CD or DVD Drive: Free Upgrade! 16X/10X/40X CD-RW Drive CD-RW Drive
Sound Card: Integrated Audio
Speakers: No Speaker Option
Software Bundles: Microsoft® Works Suite 2002 with Money 2002 Standard
Norton Antivirus®: Norton Antivirus® 2002, 90-day introductory offer
Limited Warranty, Services and Support Options: 1Yr Ltd. Warranty- 1Yr On-Site Service + 1Yr Phone Support
Internet Access Services: 6 Month Dellnet® by MSN Internet Access for XP
Special Offers: Free Palm m105! ($149 retail value)

Sub-Total $689.00
Discount -$50.00
Shipping $95.00
Shipping Discount -$95.00
Tax $32.05
Total Price $671.05

I'm going to sell the palm pilot at work or on egay...should get about $125 - bringing the total down to $550, plus $14 back from ebates...so roughly $535 will be my final cost.

Free shipping is over, but the $100 rebate on the dimension 4400 is even better...use your own account to ship the PC and you should be able to save about $75

 

[JJordan]

Dang it where do you get the choice to use your own account for shipping ?

 

[amgine]

Choice of shipping only on Small Business.

 

[namlook]

A decent deal but not that hot.
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Here's my order (for test purposes) I didn't actually order this. As you can see there is no $250 off after you configure and no $250 rebate. There is a $100 rebate. The $250 off is already priced in. So the original post in this thread is wrong. It's $250 more than he says. Not a flame, just stating the facts. Please change the original post.

Dell Dimension 8200 Series
Dimension® 8200 Series, Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.0 GHz

No CDRW, DVD, soundcard or speakers!

1
SALE PRICE
$1,059.00
[save $250.00]
$1,059.00

Sub-Total $1,059.00

Discounts -$100.00

Shipping1 $95.00

Shipping
Discount1 -$95.00

Tax1 $74.31

Total Price1 $1,033.31

-100 rebate

Total $933.31

 

[yodayoda]

god, these are crap systems made by dell. you can build yourself an athlonXP system with an nForce motherboard (geforce 2 graphics, 6 channel dolby sound), 256MB of DDR RAM, with DVD and CDRW for about $600. i went through www.newegg.com and grabbed an XP 1800+ retail chip, MSI nForce board, two sticks of DDR, a nice enlight case with 300W ps, a 40x CD-RW and a 16X DVD (by Liteon) and it came to $626. that is probably the best CDRW and DVD on the market, awesome 6 channel sound, and geforce2 MX graphics for the same price as a p4 1600 system with SDRAM and no DVD/CDRW. come on, you guys are getting HOSED!

 

[Fiveohhh]

Lots of people aren't tech savy enough to build their wn system, and would rather have it built and get 1 year tech service, so if thats the rout you wanna go its a hot deal . also add in the os and other software, and your over $300 in that

 

[Automag92878]

I have to agree with Fiveohhh,
Even though I swear to people they should build their own (or me build it for them), they like the idea of warranty and not having to troubleshoot bad parts or stability problems, etc.... The list of problems goes on when you build your own, purchasing from Dell or another vendor however sort of gives them the comfort that if something were to break, hey the fix is a phone call away. No hassle. This is a pretty decent deal on a decent setup from a decent vendor, cant beat that!

 

[namlook]

I didn't actually place that order I listed. I was just listing it to show the offer was not what was being claimed in the intial post. I actually got a MUCH better deal than that from DELL just a few days ago,

Think I got hosed? I don't think so.

I actually got a fairly loaded Northwood 2.0 Ghz system with 512 L2 cache, 256 RDRAM, Lite-on 16x DVD, 24x CDRW for $918 shipped by doing a pricematch with a Dell competitor and after pricing everything out (including the licensed OS - but NOT including any of the additional software) it was actually MORE expensive to order everything individually. Yeah if you get an athlon it's going to be slightly less because athlons are less expensive, but if you buy a P4 when the right promotions are being offered, and with the price wars going on between Dell and Gateway it is not really less expensive to order the same parts and build it. Plus you get warranty service on it. It's actually a decent deal and I have built my last couple systems.

This Dell system is music to my ears too because it is so much quieter than the last system I built and overclocked with a bunch of case fans. All that fan noise got to be annoying as hell. I've overclocked systems for a few years now but I wanted a break from my computer sounding like a tornado with all the fan noise.

Also keep in mind the Dell system has some things you didn't include in your price of $626 like hard drive, network card, modem, mouse, keyboard, licensed OS, additional software like a licensed version of MSWord etc. And I prefer to have separate sound and video cards rather than having them built into a motherboard. It's not a bad deal and I really don't see how Dell made money off of me considering all the employees they have to pay and all the overhead they have.

Just for the heck of it I did a quick price out on a home-built comparable athlon system at new egg:

239 athlon2000xp
142 nforce motherboard
88 256 DDR
80 40 GB HD
53 16x DVD
55 24x CDRW
45 Case
88 WinXP home
60 add another $60 or so for mouse, keyboard, network card. modem, floppy drive
42 shipping to my state

Total $892

Consider the little extras from Dell like a 1 year warranty/service, bundled software and it's pretty much even as far as price is concerned.