Dell, whether you love or hate their customer service, have no doubt got a great line-up of notebook laptops and desktop PC’s today offering good specs for your money.
I actually ordered my Inspiron E1705 last year from them and it has traveled with me all over the East Coast of America with nary a hick-up. In fact I’m sat tapping away happily on it now. It wasn’t all plain sailing to acquire this mammoth of a laptop I’ll tell you about that with a snippet of a blog post I wrote back then for your amusement.
More importantly, I want to share a couple coupon codes for you to use. If Dealinq readers have been holding off on choosing which brand to go for, this may just swing your decision Dell-wards. Clicky click!
You’ll have to be quick with the coupons, I’ve been away visiting dear ol’ mother up in Canada and with my limited net access haven’t been able to post the code till now. But first, an amusing anecdote from that time I bought my own Inspiron laptop.
So I rushed (well as fast as a 31Kbs 56k country modem connection allows) to put together a custom build Inspiron™ with all the best specs for my needs on their site.
With the latest core2duo processor, 17″ screen and other goodies I ran up the ideal laptop for my work on the road, priced just over $2500. The special discount knocked off $500 and so as you can imagine, I was pretty chuffed.
There was one problem though.. the offer expires on the 19th, a whole 3 days from the time I placed the order.
I assumed that I could breeze through the purchase and just use my UK credit card as I still had the funds in that account overseas but Dell sent me an email saying that my card was refused.. Doh!
A whole 2 days later and I finally got an official answer that even though I am making a US purchase to be used in America, the fact that my UK credit card has an English billing address, it would not fit into their US-only database of addresses Charming.
I particularly recommend the Dell phone sales support if you have an overwhelming desire to ride merry-go-rounds whilst repeatedly chanting order numbers, addresses and telephone numbers over and over again as you travel round and round from department to department greeted each time by overly apologetic sales reps with various accents that seemingly span the length and width of existing continents of this planet. Weee.
For the rest of the story you can check out the travel blog here: http://roadtrip.debastion.com
Anyhow, not much time to get those coupons in, they expire on Friday Oct 26th:
Up to $250 off Inspiron Notebooks: B05$JMJCW7Z5W7
Up to $250 off Inspiron Desktops: MN2N5?Q21L4?0P