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    Just bought an M50VM-A1 for $1000

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by jdoggg1, Jul 26, 2008.

  1. jdoggg1

    jdoggg1 Notebook Guru

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    Hi all - I thought i'd save some of you some money. I just used the MS Live search tool to get 20% off my buy-it-now purchase on Ebay from Excalibur PC. The coupon is through M$, not excaliburpc.

    I stole the process from here
    http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=40&threadid=2198292
    Just FYI, i went to live.com using FF and it didn't work, but when I used IE it appeared. I can't wait for this thing to get here!

    BTW - what're your thoughts on excaliburpc? I probably should have checked to see if theyre an authorized re-seller, but they have stellar resellerratings and they were prettygood to me last purchase I made with them.

    I hope to save you guys some money! :)
     
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    Yeah, but at laptop prices, it might not matter if you get 20 or 30% off b/c the max dollar amount is $250.


    Here's my confirmation email from Microsoft
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    oh, I didn't know there was a max of $250, though from Slick Deals, it was mentioned that a 10% eBay coupon MAY be stackable, which would make it a really good deal! :)
     
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    How do you know you are going to get the deal?
     
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    Well I've had an existing Live account (through hotmail/xbox live) and everything is coming from the same sources as previous communications. From what I understand this is an effort by M$ to try to pull users from google/yahoo to use Live search. The worst case scenario is that I paid full price for a computer I was going to buy anyways. There are a lot of scam sniffers out there and none of them seem to be balking at this deal.
     
    jdoggg1, Jul 27, 2008
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    Sounds too good to be true. That would cost MS millions...
     
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    Will Asus honor their warranty even if Excalibur PC is the ebay seller? I know a lot of mfgs will not honor warranties when their product is bought off ebay.
     
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    FWIW, here is the FatWallet thread about this deal
    http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/838081/

    I get nothing out of this, I just wanted to share the deal with the online communities that've helped me make good decisions on purchases.

    I would think so, the receipt should still only show that you bought it from them. They claim all the warranties are intact on the ebay auction.
     
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    One of MS' strategy to beat Google? :)
     
    CKtalon, Jul 27, 2008
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