Server Offer on www.dell.ie website €149

Amigaman

Hi Guys a real Bargin from Dell this is a No - brainer...enjoy and buy ...a PE 1600SC for € 149
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/default.aspx?c=ie&cs=iebsdt1&l=en&s=bsd

regards
Amigaman :-)

tuco

Outstanding, cheers for the link. I have absolutely no use for a server, but it's gotta be worth that in parts!

steamboat

Not bad at all! I'm in the same boat as tuco - don't need a server, but I could use the case hard drive and RAM etc.. Works out at €239.58 including VAT and Delivery though

silent

steamboat wrote:

Not bad at all! I'm in the same boat as tuco - don't need a server, but I could use the case hard drive and RAM etc.

dont forget the memory is ddr ecc, so probably no use in a home pc

one probably could make a small profit selling it for parts via ebay, but not much. still a good deal if anyone needs a small server for home/office

Dingatron

All sold out I belive! :-(

ClonmelMan

Yep...ordered one first thing this morning...cheers Amigaman. Don't think you could go wrong at that price

Seems that the offer has finished as I can't see it anymore.

penexpers

Yup any reference to it is gone off the site altogether.

Invader Zim

I was this ¦-¦ close to ordering one.

But just coundn't justify it seen as how I have more computers than I know what to do with.

damn good deal though.

skipn_easy

Phew! I was starting to clear my credit card and was very close to buying this as well. Now all that temptation is gone

trotter_inc

Maybe they made a mistake on the price??

A couple of weeks ago - they were selling projectors which were worth €1,500 for something like €30 which was an obvious mistake by someone. A mate of mine here in work bought 6 of them to take advantage of it but he got a mail later saying that his order was cancelled. He's got his solicitor after them now

Lenny

trotter_inc wrote:

Maybe they made a mistake on the price??

A couple of weeks ago - they were selling projectors which were worth €1,500 for something like €30 which was an obvious mistake by someone. A mate of mine here in work bought 6 of them to take advantage of it but he got a mail later saying that his order was cancelled. He's got his solicitor after them now

OH my god, your mate is a joke man,
it was blatant it was a mistake, I hope he looses(which he will)
I don't even see why a solicitor thinks there a case in this, he made an "offer" to buy them, dell refused.
Tell your mate not to be such a scabby ****er and trying to take advantage of other peoples mistakes

trotter_inc

Lenny wrote:

OH my god, your mate is a joke man,
it was blatant it was a mistake, I hope he looses(which he will)
I don't even see why a solicitor thinks there a case in this, he made an "offer" to buy them, dell refused.
Tell your mate not to be such a scabby ****er and trying to take advantage of other peoples mistakes

I would have done the same only they changed the price quick enough!

Not sure about the legalities but his solicitor told him something about them advertising the price so they have to sell at that price - not too sure about it though - dont want to start a legal debate here.

seamus

trotter_inc wrote:

Not sure about the legalities but his solicitor told him something about them advertising the price so they have to sell at that price - not too sure about it though - dont want to start a legal debate here.

Prices stated on the website aren't advertisements, they're invitation to treat. While these are legally supposed to be correct, they don't oblige the retailer to sell. All they do is protect the consumer from paying a higher price than stated (that is, the retailer has two choices - Sell at the marked price, or refuse to sell.).
Advertising works differently. In the past retailers have been forced to honour prices on advertisements. I would argue that the dell website is not an advertisement, but a shop, because of the way dell do their business.

stevenmu

As for this being a mistake, I don't think it was, they've had similar offers in the past not quite this good but near enough. I think somebody in the computers board also mentioned that it was an end of line clearance too.

JBoy

For all of us who missed it - waht was the machine spec ?

Thanks

hallelujajordan

seamus wrote:

Prices stated on the website aren't advertisements, they're invitation to treat. While these are legally supposed to be correct, they don't oblige the retailer to sell. All they do is protect the consumer from paying a higher price than stated (that is, the retailer has two choices - Sell at the marked price, or refuse to sell.).
.

Presumably the difference, and the legal basis in this case is that the retailer went one step further than the 'invitation to treat' . . If the transaction went through and was accepted by the retailer at the mistaken price, the buyer may well have a case . . .

Invader Zim

Intel Xeon (spelling?) 2.4 GHz, 80GB 7200RPM IDEHD, SCSI controller on board, Gigabit Ethernet, 8MB graphics, CD drive...

penexpers

No AGP slot though.

This wasn't a mistake - the machines have been end of line for a while now.

penexpers

hallelujajordan wrote:

Presumably the difference, and the legal basis in this case is that the retailer went one step further than the 'invitation to treat' . . If the transaction went through and was accepted by the retailer at the mistaken price, the buyer may well have a case . . .

This has happened before (mistakes on dell websites) and Dell have a clause in the terms and conditions that says an order isn't accepted until you get a written Order Confirmation from Dell. I don't think this is generated automatically when ordering online.

pwd

Mistakes in prices on websites happen occasionally, and they never are obliged to sell the products at the specified price. occasionally they give a few away at the price for public relations only, not because they have to. Most sites actually have it in their tos somewhere. seen threadsa bout it on boards before, Have bought a hifi or something before and they trie dto charge me full price

ClonmelMan

anyone here back from Dell on this offer?

seamus

ClonmelMan wrote:

anyone here back from Dell on this offer?

Nope

silent

two friends who ordered this have had their orders canceled today, their order time was about 5-10 minutes before this thread even went up. weird. hell/dell maybe giving preference to other persons (companies/employees buddies etc)?

ClonmelMan

Hmmm...that don't sound good...I got the initial mail with a reference but that was it...I will give it another few days but no news might just be good news as if it was cancelled I should have herd by now

silent

ClonmelMan wrote:

Hmmm...that don't sound good...I got the initial mail with a reference but that was it...I will give it another few days but no news might just be good news as if it was cancelled I should have herd by now

with the recent mis-price on the projector, I did not hear anything for about 5 days then got an email saying it was canceled, that email had a date in it that was two days old. Anyway, hell can go to dell quite bad customer support from my experience
good luck to all who ordered, hopefully you'll get your 1600SC fine

eirmail

A friend and I had an order in for 2 servers and they got cancelled.
I am beginning to wonder was it just a publicity stunt.

Capt'n Midnight

Dear Sir/ Madam,

Thank you for your recent request to purchase a Dell PowerEdge 1600 SC server(s).

We regret to inform you that due to unprecedented demand on the day the offer was launched we have sold out of this product and will not be accepting or further processing your request to purchase this product.

We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Under Dell's Terms & Conditions orders are only binding when accepted by Dell in a written Order Confirmation. While you may have received an Internet Receipt Acknowledgement, we have not sent you a written Order Confirmation to confirm acceptance of your order.

We aim to offer customers the best possible customer experience and we regret we are unable to meet your request to purchase this product. Please refer to the Dell website at www.dell.ie for details of our other competitively priced server products.

Once again, please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Kind regards,

Customer Care

seamus

Just rejected here too

OFDM

hallelujajordan wrote:

Presumably the difference, and the legal basis in this case is that the retailer went one step further than the 'invitation to treat' . . If the transaction went through and was accepted by the retailer at the mistaken price, the buyer may well have a case . . .

If his credit card was charge, thne a contract was entered into and he has a very good case - if it wasn't charged, then there's no contract and no case.

MacGyver

finally some good news.... i ordered four of these machine under two different companies but i only got confirmation for two so far. they had 2000 machines for sale and sold out in three hours.

seamus

OFDM wrote:

If his credit card was charge, thne a contract was entered into and he has a very good case - if it wasn't charged, then there's no contract and no case.

This is a bit of a grey area now. Retailers can "reserve" your credit on the card, so they haven't actually charged you, but you can't take the delivery of the goods and have a maxed out card when they attempt to charge you.

I rented a car last year, and they needed a €1000 "deposit" - what they did is make sure I had €1000 free on my credit card, then reserved it for themselves. While I had the car, my available balance was down by a grand, but no charge was ever made against the card.

ClonmelMan

Just received the cancelled mail....dam it anyway was looking forward to it :mad:

silent.......hell can go to dell quite bad customer support from my experience

What you say is true....I never heard of anything so bad as to take orders and cancell them like Dell seems to do it. What a stunt