buying an E1505 with that 30% off coupon...

I've been browsing this site and forum for nearly a month, trying to figure out what laptop to buy. There's been a lot of helpful information here, thanks for that .

Anyway, this is the setup i'm going to buy.

Inspiron E1505
Windows® XP Home
1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2
256MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X1400
60GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW)
Intel® PRO 3945 and Dell 350 Bluetooth Internal Wireless Cards
85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery

all for ~$1,200. But i'm wanting to use the coupon code R99GSKKQQ23S4$ to save 30% off any $999.00+ Dell Inspiron notebook. The code works by lowering it to $900.20 in my shopping cart. But when I proceed to check out, i come to the screen that asks me to pay for it, and it says $1,086 again for the total (not including shipping).

I'm confused. Do I continue to buy it and it only charges me the $900.20 + tax, or is the coupon messed up?

Any suggestions? I would love to pay $100 less for this

 

u only get $100 off when using a 30% coupon?

anyways, you might want to call dell and place the order. then hopefully they can get the coupon to work right

 

you do know that thier website has been extremely messed up lately right?

 

hehe, whoops, i meant that it was ~$1,200. The $1,086 number was already with the $200 off discount for shopping there. The 30% off coupon just cancelled it out. So it was more like $300 off

 

so it works now? I'd talk to one of the live sales reps and see if it works with them.

 

well, i have yet to try it again for (for a third time, maybe 3rd time's the charm), but i guess i should just try to place my order over the phone with dell and make sure that the coupon will work.

 

Someone can lock this thread now because I just right now bought my system over the phone at dell. It turns out that the 30% off coupon has expired, not because the June 29th date has come up, but the 4,000 uses have been used up. Fortunately for me, i got a good deal with my sales guy, who got me $400 off of a similar notebook .

 

I was one of those 4,000 uses!!!! Call dell and place your order over the phone and ask for a student discount. You will get around $100-$120 off the final price!

 

Or just wait until Thursday for new coupons. Dell has been releasing similar coupons just about every week for the at least the last 2-3 months (that's as long as I've been keeping track). It's also been rotating through different free upgrades (hard drive, dvd burner, 1gb ram, router).