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    Gateway going retail only

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Deathscythe622, Jul 25, 2008.

  1. Deathscythe622

    Deathscythe622 Notebook Enthusiast

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    http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2326454,00.asp

    I know many if not most of you guys here have the best buy retail version of gateway's p series laptops. I know a few of us did go through gateway for ours. Any ideas on what this is going to do to customer support or warranty issues?
     
    Deathscythe622, Jul 25, 2008
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    Lakjin Notebook Deity

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    Just buy warranty from squaretrade...use the coupon FIFTYOFF
     
    Lakjin, Jul 25, 2008
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    dtwn C'thulhu fhtagn

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    Shouldn't be a factor as P6860/31 users can call up Gateway for assistance just as easily.
     
    dtwn, Jul 25, 2008
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    royk50 times being what they are

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    shouldn't be a factor as gateway tech support offered zero assistance anyway.
     
    royk50, Jul 26, 2008
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    LOL!......
     
    Dook, Jul 26, 2008
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    Well that is mostly true, once they helped me, once they were stupid! What about warranty though, I guess I will just email customer service, while they still have it!
     
    Deathscythe622, Jul 26, 2008
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    Well, as far as I can tell, they're still covering warranty, they're just no longer selling the laptops directly.

    This would mean that they could cut costs by dropping their sales staff.
     
    dtwn, Jul 27, 2008
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    ah the evils of capitalism... its kinda creepy though that the new line up should cost 2K or better but they are selling it for 1500ish... wonder if this actually had anything to do with it. :confused:
     
    Kamin_Majere, Jul 27, 2008
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