Dell 5% Discount Code & other offers

Vexorg

Its a pity the purchse value is so high - but handy if you are spending this much.

* 5% off all Inspiron & XPS order over EUR899.00
* Start Date - today, April 10th
* End Date - Wednesday, April 16th
* Code - 5JSF2530BRRVMG

Better code here 10% http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=55630091&postcount=2 niceone smemon:)

Some reasonable small business deals perhaps (remomber these prices exclude VAT and in many cases shipping also. Click through the tabs to see more offers.

SMB Promotions****************
* UP to 50% Off Selected Laptops and Desktop Accessories
* 40% Off All-In-One Printers purchases with SystemsPromotion Valid until April 30th 2008
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/promo.aspx/promocompare?c=ie&cs=iebsdt1&l=ie&s=bsd&~tab=3

This looks like their cheapest Small Business Laptop (again it is ex VAT)

Selected Laptops: Save up to EUR150.00, Free Shipping on all Vostro Laptops worth EUR429.00 and above and Free Upgrade from 15.4 WXGA to 15.4 WXGA Truelife Monitor.
Price: from EUR249.00.
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/vostro_nb?c=ie&cs=iebsdt1&l=en&s=bsd&~ck=mn

If these have been posted already feel freee to delete or move.V.

smemon

10% coupon here; on all systems over €899

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expires 16th April 08

edit: can be combined with epp to give up to 16% discount ;-)

butts

Thanks smemon, I've been waiting for that code.

An xps 420 with E8400, 8800GT graphics card, 2GB ram, 500 GB drive and Logitech™ Cordless Desktop™ MX®3200 can now be had for just €630. This is Dells cheapest system ever with an 8800GT. Upgrading to the Logitech keyboard allows the 10% discount to kick in, the systems price is to low without it to qualify.

The price of this system has gone down by €17 since lunch time when I ordered mine. I'll try ringing them to see if I can get the price adjusted or the order cancelled - I know I'm greedy . If anybody else has tried to get Dell to adjust the price of a system bought online please let me know if you had any luck.

Other upgrades I choose were:

2GB 677mhz ram to 2GB 800mhz for €9
Creative Labs Fatal1ty Gaming Headset for €26 (good price for this headset)

To get these prices its the usual:

Go to http://www.dell.ie/epp

Evalue code: 420 - (D04X414)

Do the upgrades, add to basket and apply the coupon supplied by smemon.

smemon

butts wrote: »

Thanks smemon, I've been waiting for that code.

An xps 420 with E8400, 8800GT graphics card, 2GB ram, 500 GB drive and Logitech™ Cordless Desktop™ MX®3200 can now be had for just €630. This is Dells cheapest system ever with an 8800GT. .

yeah it would be perfect but for the fact they've removed the quad core option :mad:

i had intended to get the above, with 4 gig RAM and a few extras, but only if it had a quad core...

might have to hold on for another couple of weeks and se what happens...

butts

At first I felt the same way about not having a Q6600 option, but after I read up some more on the E8400 I found out that some people were taking out their quad cores, selling them and putting in an E8400 instead. AFAIK, with most games the E8400 performs better and even in tests where apps were able to make full use of the Q6600 four cores, the E8400 wasn't far behind. Having said that I don't profess to be an expert and know that others will correct me if I'm wrong.

smemon

butts wrote: »

At first I felt the same way about not having a Q6600 option, but after I read up some more on the E8400 I found out that some people were taking out their quad cores, selling them and putting in an E8400 instead. AFAIK, with most games the E8400 performs better and even in tests where apps were able to make full use of the Q6600 four cores, the E8400 wasn't far behind. Having said that I don't profess to be an expert and know that others will correct me if I'm wrong.

Yeah i agree, in gaming terms a good dual core will smash a quad core simply because games aren't built for quad cores yet, so the extra cores are wasted..

On paper 2 x 3ghz = 6ghz, whereas 2.4ghz x 4 = 9.6ghz.

I know that's a load of rubbish in reality but i think in order to future proof the system i need a quad core, particularly if i'm doing video or photo editing.

I'm not much of a gamer myself. They had the quad core option on that specific package up until a few days ago, and i noticed it's available on all others, so perhaps it's just an error and they'll get it back on soon..

IIRC the quadcore was actually €20 cheaper than the dual core also

Jilm

butts wrote: »

An xps 420 with E8400, 8800GT graphics card, 2GB ram, 500 GB drive and Logitech™ Cordless Desktop™ MX®3200 can now be had for just €630. This is Dells cheapest system ever with an 8800GT. Upgrading to the Logitech keyboard allows the 10% discount to kick in, the systems price is to low without it to qualify.

Is That €630 before shipping is added? With the system above, the total I'm getting is €664.85 incl shipping.

butts

Jilm, it was €630.60 inc. VAT & Delivery. Adding the upgrades for memory and headset brought the total to €664.85.

lordluxor

I am ordering through epp but am confused where to put the company name - is it in the contact info (ie where it states: Company Name (ONLY complete if you are a company)) - or somewhere else? Thanks...

Jilm

butts wrote: »

Jilm, it was €630.60 inc. VAT & Delivery. Adding the upgrades for memory and headset brought the total to €664.85.

Cheers butts, you saved me a bit of work hunting for a bargain

butts

lordluxor, I was having problems as well and I had put in AIB as the company name. Maybe I should have used the full title Allied Irish Bank. Anyway I cancelled the order because the price of the system had been lowered a couple of hours after I ordered it. This morning I spotted a 530s with a similar spec to the xps 420 including the E8400. Main difference was the graphics card was a ATI 2400 XT, but for €450 inc. vat & delivery I couldn't resist and bought it instead.

Edit: I forgot to say that the 530s I bought was from Dell outlet where they are doing €80 off + free delivery.

TJM

Is anybody else seeing the "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error page when trying to order the xps 420 through epp? I'm getting this in both Firefox & IE.

smemon

I wouldn't order an XPS 420 atm, they've hiked prices way up yesterday...

I'm paying about €200 MORE than what i would be paying had i bought the same system a few days ago.

So wait it out another few days, get another 10% coupon and then get in there

Steve J

Jilm wrote: »

Cheers butts, you saved me a bit of work hunting for a bargain

right on butts