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    M17X, UK base price gone up by £109.

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Awight Geezer, Apr 30, 2010.

  1. Awight Geezer

    Awight Geezer Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thats some price rise, the base price for the UK M17X has always been £1499, its now gone up to £1,608 which is a £109 hike in price.

    Whats that all about ? Its some price rise, were already getting ripped off in the UK compared to US prices. That price hike is for both the single and crossfire systems, its still listing the 4870 in crossfire so the price hike can`t be for new 5870`s in crossfire.

    Thats certainly pushing me towards the Asus G73JH now as the price for a single graphics card system on the M17X is crazy.
     
    Awight Geezer, Apr 30, 2010
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    Aye spotted that yesterday.The rogues are also charging for Bluetooth as option was included in base price before.Bottom line is they can charge what they like it will still sell.
     
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  3. Awight Geezer

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    Not to me it won`t so thats one sale they have lost, a £109 price hike is rediculous. Its not like they have including anything new to justify that sort of increase.
     
    Awight Geezer, Apr 30, 2010
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    Wow. Well the Base Price for a M17x in Australia dropped 100 Dollars...
     
    Ikuto, Apr 30, 2010
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    That seems to be in the alienware showcase..to me I thought wow nice discount but they did cheeky things like give you a lower end NIC card, bluetooth chargable, etc what are these goons playing at! :mad:
     
    Mikoyan_UK, Apr 30, 2010
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  6. Kaiserphoenix

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    I think this is due to the weakening of the British Pound against other currencies, hence importing has become more expensive :(
     
    Kaiserphoenix, Apr 30, 2010
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  7. Botsu

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    It's not like we got a big drop in prices when the €/$ parity hit €1 against $1,50+ :D

    ps : apparently M17x went up from more than 50€ too.
     
    Botsu, Apr 30, 2010
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    should be going down not up....
     
    kcuk, Apr 30, 2010
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  9. Awight Geezer

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    Exactly! I wouldn`t of minded if Dell had added some new hardware or something worth the £109 increase but they havn`t, in fact they are charging you more for the base system plus they have now added an option where you have to pay extra for wireless.

    This option which is £20 extra

    Intel® Wireless LAN 6300 3x3 802.11a/b/g/n card (EUR) [add £20.00 or £1/month1]

    Dell Recommended
    Dell Wireless 1520 Half Mini Card (802.11n) [Included in Price]
     
    Awight Geezer, Apr 30, 2010
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  10. Lozz

    Lozz Top Overpriced Dell

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    Welcome, you're finally realizing the effects a global economy in a recession has on retail products.

    winner!!
     
    Lozz, Apr 30, 2010
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  11. bigelvis

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    In my opinion all of us in Europe pay much more for electronics just to cover super low prices in US :)
     
    bigelvis, Apr 30, 2010
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  12. Kaiserphoenix

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    But think about not just the Pound vs Euro or USD but the strong asian currencies, most of the laptops are made in China, hence paid for in Chinese yuan, with the weak Dollar and Pound, its costing more to make these in Pound terms, hence why its getting more expensive, Apple also slightly increased their prices as well. The pound is just getting hit real bad (so is the euro for that matter) but anyway...not luck for us living in the UK and earning in Pounds :((((((
     
    Kaiserphoenix, Apr 30, 2010
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    I thought the pound was on the rise v the dollar and euro? I mean spain, greece and america are more broke than us arent they?
     
    Peacock1, Apr 30, 2010
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  14. Kiers182

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    Woooooowwww....the price of the M15X with my specs cost around £1200....the same configuration is now £1489.01 :O

    Holy smokes! Good job I ordered when I did!
     
    Kiers182, Apr 30, 2010
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    The M15x base HDD is now 160GB and the RAM is also reduced to only 2GB
     
    skynet1988, May 1, 2010
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    On the Canadian website the Alienware M15x and M17x prices are down by 100$ :D shouldn't be much longer till i buy mine now as i just got a new job.. not to go OT but i'm just really excited as my current computer is a 5 year old HP s7220n. Sucks your prices went up though.
     
    Rimwich, May 1, 2010
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