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    Any Luck With Dell Canada?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by JPRT, Jul 20, 2007.

  1. JPRT

    JPRT Notebook Consultant

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    To say I'm frustrated with Dell's Canadian counterpart would be the understatement of the year. Firstly, the deals on there are HORRIBLE. Honestly, the Canadian dollar is within 5% of the American dollar right now, but Dell's prices aren't even close to that. Everything is marked up horribly, and they have NO good deals!

    No matter how I build it, I can't get an Inspiron 1520 (that has half decent **** in it) for less than $1600. On the other hand, on the American site, I can get it for $1200 fully loaded. To make matters worse, none of the posted coupons work for the Canadian site.

    Basically, I was wondering if:

    1) Anyone has had any luck with the Canadian site.
    2) Anyone has coupons which work on Dell Canada.

    Thank you.
     
    JPRT, Jul 20, 2007
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  2. az_blizard

    az_blizard Notebook Consultant

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    call them. you probably wont save much in comparison to if you bought it from US but you should be able to talk the price down.
     
    az_blizard, Jul 20, 2007
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  3. JPRT

    JPRT Notebook Consultant

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    Really? Maybe I had bad luck, but I called both the Canadian and US constituents 3 times in total and all 3 times I spoke with an extremely unhelpful salesperson who had little more to say than "No you can't ship to Canada off the US site".

    Can you actually haggle with them? Like maybe I can give them the price I got from the US site and they can match it in Canadian dollars, THAT would be nice haha.
     
    JPRT, Jul 20, 2007
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  4. HiryuX

    HiryuX Notebook Guru

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    This is what I got, and I'm from Canada:
    Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7300 (4MB cache/2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB), English
    Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium Edition, English
    Jet Black Color with Matte Finish
    14.1 inch Wide Screen WXGA+ TrueLife LCD Display
    Integrated 2.0 Megapixel Webcam
    2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 Dimm
    80G 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
    128MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 8400M GS
    8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability
    Microsoft Works 8. DOES NOT INCLUDE MS WORD, English
    Dell Wireless 1505 Wireless-N Mini-card
    No ISP requested
    Norton Internet Security™ 2007, 30 Day Trial, English
    1 Year Return to Depot Service, Complete Care and Technical Support
    DataSafe Online Backup 3GB (included with price)
    85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
    85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Additional Battery
    Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy HD Software Edition
    Dell Travel Remote Control, IR
    Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
    Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 7.0

    All for $1328.00 w/out tax.
    All for $1412.98 w/ tax. Not too shabby for a canadian resident =)
     
    HiryuX, Jul 20, 2007
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  5. crystalsunrise

    crystalsunrise Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah mine came to about the same from Dell Canada, and yes I did haggle with the rep on the phone. I ordered before the faster processors were available for the 1420 for dell canada.
     
    crystalsunrise, Jul 20, 2007
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  6. HiryuX

    HiryuX Notebook Guru

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    Lol, I took advantage of the 799$ promo and added the 300$ coupon =D
     
    HiryuX, Jul 20, 2007
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  7. crystalsunrise

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    lucky you :)
     
    crystalsunrise, Jul 20, 2007
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  8. JPRT

    JPRT Notebook Consultant

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    This is my question, none of those coupons posted worked for me on Dell Canada... I tried the $300 one and a few others, yet they worked for me on the US site...

    What did you do?
     
    JPRT, Jul 20, 2007
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  9. EP2007

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    :mad: My dell Rep said I couldn't apply that coupon to my 1520 as it already had one ($240) and even though there is a $60 savings and the coupon WAS FOR THE 1520, he said he couldn't do it! :mad: :mad:
     
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  10. HiryuX

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    Lol, yah that happend to me about 5 times aha.
    Had to call in the 6th time to find a very nice rep..
    He also tried to convince me on getting the 3 year complete care, for a cheaper price, but was too pricey for me in the end.
    That guy had great customer service compared to all the other reps I spoke with on the phone and in person!
     
    HiryuX, Jul 20, 2007
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  11. EP2007

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    I take it that English was that persons native tongue :rolleyes: LOL
     
    EP2007, Jul 20, 2007
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