I'd guess they've got waaaaaaaay too much inventory. The trend I've
noticed was the entire PC "industry" shrinking over the last few months.
Cold-calling customers is not something I've heard them do before, though.
Definitely interesting.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:40:28AM -0400, Maureen L. Thomas wrote:
> Hi all,
> I hope and pray that all of you who had friends or relatives in New
> York are well. My prayers are with you.
> I received a call tonite from Dell. They were offering me a computer
> for $99.00. It was a Celeron 800Mhx, 64 M ram, 48x CD with Windows ME.
> I asked them if it was Linux compatible. Then had no idea what I was
> talking about. The original caller went and got her supervisor. He
> asked what I needed to know to go for the deal. I explaned that I
> needed a machine that was Linux (in my case Mandrake) compatible. He
> assured me it was. Then the killer, is the modem a real modem with
> controller on board or was it a winmodem. Again he assured me I could
> use the modem in Linux. The real kicker was the 36 month contract with
> Earthlink at 29.99 a month. I declined the offer. The sales person
> then stated that they would ship me the machine - minus the windows
> software - and began to tell me about all the extra's that came with
> it. Extras were more software programs all windows compatible. She
> still didn't get it. I did and firmly declined it. Is Dell getting
> desparate or just unloading a lot of low end machines with winblows on
> it.
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- Isaiah
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