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Do any of you lot buy Dell stuff fairly regularly?

My company is in the process of becoming a registered partner/reseller and as a result means I am able to get discounts off their standard retail pricing on a number of things.

Can apparently get BIG discounts if you buy £10k+ worth of kit as well
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yes we do
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It's not that good.

Discounts on over 10k aren't as big as you'd expect either.
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no, would never buy anything that overpriced
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quote:
Originally posted by John
It's not that good.

Discounts on over 10k aren't as big as you'd expect either.


Example?
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quote:
Originally posted by Russ
no, would never buy anything that overpriced


You own Apple products...
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We just buy direct from Dell. Only spending maybe 1k at a time generally
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i bought my PC from Dell
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The partner site doesn't give you that big, if any, discount normally, the margins are tight enough on the retail ones that there's no room to give loads off.

When spending 10k, you'll get a few hundred off if you're lucky, not a free 2k server like you used to.
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I'd be interested to see what discounts they offer me when I get my login details through tomorrow.

He did say on the phone to me earlier (the rep from Dell) that Inspiron stuff I won't get anything off, only everything else.

And yes if my customer was spending at least £10k on new kit I'd expect a better discount than that
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quote:
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no, would never buy anything that overpriced



but you have a iMac
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I spend about 400k a year with Dell.

Get me a price on m1000e chassis.

[Edited on 06-06-2011 by Chris]
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quote:
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no, would never buy anything that overpriced


Ive got a Dell Streak. Everything for it is expensive, car cradle was around £40. The Docking station is like £60
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Sam, if your serious I've got a few needs for a mine and a few other schools coming up. U2U me an email address, no harm in a quote
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I'll let you know as soon as they've emailed me my log in details, no worries.
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We use dell stuff for our SCADA servers and Workstations. Seem fine for what we use them for.
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quote:
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I'll let you know as soon as they've emailed me my log in details, no worries.


You supply quite a lot anyway don't you, be handy to have an email address for you
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U2U sent.
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Ta blud
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Sam, drop me your e-mail address. No halm in asking for quotes
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Done.
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Niceone blud
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nope, buy Lenovo laptops... much better than the Dell crap..
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Everything mass produced is crap TBH, you just get varying degrees of crapness among brands.
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Is the Lenovo warranty as good as Dell?

Quick chat online, not too many questions, engineer out next day?

My experience of most other manufacturers certainly isn't that simple.

 
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