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TrueMobile 350

  • 10-10-2006 9:08pm
    #1
    Explosive_Cornflake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭


    Does anyone know where I can pick up a Dell TrueMobile 350 internal bluetooth module for a laptop. They're on ebay, but the price is excessive with postage. Does anyone know if dell sell these themselves? Or where I might procure one?
    Cheers, Ciarán.


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  • #2
    Sparky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    Your best bet is to ring up dell and ask for the Irish sales line.
    Get through to accesories, then ask for the card exact.

    I had to do the same when ordering the vodafone internal module, which they did not have on their site for buying.


  • #3
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    You can be sure Dell will charge well for it, if they do sell it seperately, which I seriously doubt they do...


  • #4
    Explosive_Cornflake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭Explosive_Cornflake


    Actually ended up getting it off ebay, €33.39 EUR = £22.00 GBP is what it ended up. I'll post details if anyone wants.
    Thanks all.


  • #5
    passdump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭passdump


    Dell.com have the 355 internal Bluetooth module for their laptops on offer at the moment for $19.The offer is here
    http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=430-1795

    (Its similar to the 350 and as far as I have been able to make out it does work in all the laptops that the 350 works in-Dell dont mention this.)

    But when I went to take up the offer I wasnt let put in my Irish address. The website only allows a US addresses. I IRC-ed (is that the correct term?) with a dell.com representative. There wasnt any thing he could do except suggest buy it and get it delivered to a friend or relative in the US and get them to post in on. I can't do that. Also I cant find the product on Dell.ie. (Neither could the Dell representative), neither for full price nor the offer price.

    I phoned Dell and after having been transfered from one person to another I was finally put onto some company in the UK that handles Dell's accessories. The guy told me it would cost $97 (stg£50).

    What is so special about Dell's American customers that they only have to pay $19? Or to put it another way why does Dell feel it can screw (and by screw I mean the DIY use of the word!!) its Irish customers and overcharge them by 80% ?


  • #6
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    passdump wrote:
    What is so special about Dell's American customers that they only have to pay $19? Or to put it another way why does Dell feel it can screw (and by screw I mean the DIY use of the word!!) its Irish customers and overcharge them by 80% ?

    The American market for pretty much anything works on different dynamics to other markets. Primarily because of competition - there's lots of it.

    They charge what they like to non-US customers because they can, simple as that.

    With consumer electronics, there are other factors, such as support, power supply, regulation, etc. Generally speaking the vast majority of US websites will only deal with customers within the US. I know this from bitter experience.


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