I just saved 1000$+ on my dell 1520

How'd I do it? Well first heres the total price of the laptop

$2,039.00
t7100
1gig ram
8600gt
160gig hd
3year dellcare prem

Then the savings:

Dell EPP/FSS Customers: Save $292 off select Inspiron 1520 systems! - $292.00

Students save $200 off Inspiron notebooks priced $999 and above! - $200.00

Dell EPP/FSS Customers: Select PC-Care Plus Bundle and get 7% discount off your total system order. Discount appears at checkout once payment method is chosen. - $108.29

Dell EPP/FSS customers receive 8% off systems priced $800 to $1600 with 3/4yr At-Home service. - $115.10

Then the compensation:
8600gt being DDR2 100$ back to my CC

2gig ram being a free upgrade now 100$ Dell coupon

Express Remote Not coming with my laptop as standard and having to wait a long time for the rep to find a part number. Then finding out that I couldn't even get the damn remote because it needed to ship with the laptop together in the first place. Another 100$ Dell coupon

totalling up to 1015$ in savings. All I gotta say... for my first notebook, not bad.

 

which school did u use ?


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What was your total ?

 

I used my community college as my school, they buy a lot of dell stuff and I'm an employee there so it worked out for me.

The total of my laptop was $1,323.61

counting in the compensation i got for the various stuff it comes out to be 1023.61

 

Unless you actually go to that school you should not order from it. Completely illegal.

 

Holy Schnikes! That is an amazing deal. Nice job figuring out how to stack all of those.

 

slick dude :thumbsup: i saved $1110.08 =). welcome to the club.

 

It's not illegal cause you can not be arested

 

If he is an employee of the school I would say that should be fine. The institution and their employees almost always benefit from "Educational discounts".

I personally ordered here in canada without any coupons or "official" discounts at all. I used our corporate sales rep from work (I am the IT Manager so I make the IT purchases, this was bought personally, just through the corporate rep) and I managed to negotiate a $1300 savings on my XPS1710 I have another thread I just started to talk about discounts people managed to get.

 

I don't know if his school is the same as mine, but our Dell discounts are for anyone associated with the school, even the janitors. Basically, if you're paying for classes or they're paying you to do something, you can get the discount. Once again, not sure if it's the same with him.

 

Actually per the Dell Unleashed, it says you can be student, faculty, alumni, parent of student or employee of school so.. he's fine.

 

We've already had enough discussion about this. If it isn't illegal, it is certainly unethical and you may spoil the deals that students get in the future. Maybe Dell ought to bring charges against someone, or publicly flog them...would that make it more clear? Probably...but instead they just cancel the orders they find that are not really educational.

 

heh, you're funny Chaos...you actually got a little bit of a rip off...

 

However in this specific case he should be fine, because he is an employee of the school. I agree though people just randomly using a school discount for themselves is unethical. But an educational discount almost allways covers the staff of the school as well.

 

You can't bring charges against someone for trying to use a publicly advertised deal that they aren't eligible for. Dell isn't stupid.

They do not cancel orders that they "find out" aren't educational. When I ordered my coupon mistake Inspiron from EPP the lady asked me what it was for and I said "work/school" and she gave me a verbal nod and moved on. As long as you don't say RESALE or CORPORATE USE, they couldn't care less. You don't even need the company code to enter EPPBuy.

Almost anyone who has ever worked a day in their life was employed by a company with an EPP anyway.

 

People pretending to be in a college to get discount are just ruining it for people who actually go to the school. This is probably why it is taking so long because they have to verify. I think people who got canceled because of this deserve it.

 

Yes, it does. I'm not talking about the OP...just the discussion was going off topic and I thought that would at least end that part. I guess I only helped to pull it further off topic...sorry!

Anyway, sweet deal!

 

Hehe in customer satisfaction I did because now I have a crippled vid card, have to install 2gigs of ram by myself and I don't have a remote(and can never get it unless they start getting sold through ebay or someone can sell me one).

 

How did you get the $200 off Inspirons 999 and up to stack? Or was it just over the phone so you could swing it more?

 

$2000+ before all those discounts is a COMPLETE rip off, I can price the same laptop without all your discounts for 1100~

 

That's with no warranty, I got the Dell Care Plus which adds about 300 but gives a 7% dc and I also forgot to mention I have a wsxga+ and a bunch of other stuff such as wireless n 9 cell battery and bluetooth. So maybe try configuring it with that and see if you still get 1100

 

these 100 dollar "coupons" you speak of doesn't really mean anything to someone who just purchased a laptop. i dono how you gouged your way with coupons but they're probably handing them out to you so you'd buy more stuff from them.

 

What's wrong with knowing which university?

I may just decide to be a prospective student there if it's that great ...



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That would be a pretty lame reason to pick a school (I know you said prospective, but, whatever).

Can you imagine?
lowspeed's future roommate: So, why'd you pick this school?
lowspeed: I wanted an extra $200 off my laptop.

 

it was a joke....

 

#1 - You can get the Bluetooth Remote if you want for like $50 (I got mine for free)

#2 - How come you didn't receive the 2GB of RAM upgrade, and you have to install it yourself?