Dell mis-price

podge3

This machine should be €690 but coming up as €510 in the basket:

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b=&c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&oc=D11315c&rbc=D11315c&s=dhs&sbc=iedhsrsdimen_3100_3

Goodish spec - pentium, flat screen

Endurance Man

Doesnt matter, if you order before they spot the mis print they can still make you pay the original price .

podge3

Endurance Man wrote:

Doesnt matter, if you order before they spot the mis print they can still make you pay the original price .

No they can't. They cannot deduct anymore than what you authorised at Checkout.

The worst that can happen is they will cancel the order.

In this case, I think they will honour the mis-price as its not a huge mistake.

yop

Happend to me about 3 year ago, a laptop was meant to be 2300 and we got it for 1200! One of the lads bought 8, they honoured the sales

mad m

The extra €60 gets you the 17" flat screen .Not a bad price...

besty

Endurance Man wrote:

Doesnt matter, if you order before they spot the mis print they can still make you pay the original price .

No they can't, contract law says so!

okidoki987

Why do you reckon it should be 690?

It says reduced from 569 to 510 on that link so where does the 690 come
from?

machalla

If I remember rightly another similar thread mentioned something about the actual contract not being valid until they had invoiced you for the items (which you recieve with the shipped items). So they can refuse to sell anything at the wrong price unless they actually ship it to you with an invoice for the amount you were trying to buy it for.

If they shipped it with an invoice for a higher price then you would effectively owe them the remainder (of course they won't ship till you have actually paid them of course, it is Dell after all).

pchead

okidoki987 wrote:

Why do you reckon it should be 690?

It says reduced from 569 to 510 on that link so where does the 690 come
from?

I got an "e-shot" from them with several machines on it - when I clicked on this one (marked @ €690 in the e-shot), it comes up at €510.

Anyway, if you look at any other Dell machine, you will not get a P4 with a 15" flat screen for anything like €510.

RuggieBear

at the end of the day tho it is still a dell....absolute pain in the hole if you want to try and upgrade it yourself in the (near) future

damo605

Tried this before when there was a mistake on their website and here is an email I received after about 3 weeks of hearing nothing back:
Even though it says UK storefront it was the Dell.ie

Dear Customer,

There was an error on our UK storefront that resulted in incorrect pricing being advertised for various products - you entered a request to purchase one of these products and due to this error we are unable to process your order.

Your Internet Reference Number: xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Please accept our apologies for this error and we hope that you will revisit our store to continue your purchase request.

Signed:

EMEA Customer Services

pchead

RuggieBear wrote:

at the end of the day tho it is still a dell....absolute pain in the hole if you want to try and upgrade it yourself in the (near) future

Agreed, Dell machines are hard to upgrade. But for a shade over €500, I think its a pretty good buy for the average home user.

damo605

It can't be bought - as soon as you click on continue (without selecting any add ons or upgrades or anything) the price jumps to 670 straight away :rolleyes:
Pity - would have been a brilliant price. Take off VAT and trade value of the tft it would have been a €270 P4 baseunit, even though it's the older chip it would have been still cheaper than anything similar you could build yourself!

jesus_thats_gre

They will honour it if the difference is not too big..

mad m

damo605 wrote:

It can't be bought - as soon as you click on continue (without selecting any add ons or upgrades or anything) the price jumps to 670 straight away :rolleyes:
Pity - would have been a brilliant price. Take off VAT and trade value of the tft it would have been a €270 P4 baseunit, even though it's the older chip it would have been still cheaper than anything similar you could build yourself!

This wasnt the case lastnight when I was just toying with the idea of it while adding the 17inch lcd...They must of sussed it out and put correct price on it today.

MarVeL

The brother phoned them about this and while they did say it was a misprice they were willing to honour the price and even dropped down to €440 - the monitor

The Troll

personally, i think the pc is a pile of garabge but for certain uses it would have ample functionality.

acquiescefc

You could go for the Dimension 1100 (base unit without monitor) in Small Business Section for €301 delivered. 512Meg/80Gig Celeron.

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