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    Costco shop,someone ordered?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by spitfire, Nov 27, 2006.

  1. spitfire

    spitfire Notebook Consultant

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    Has someone ordered sommethink for costco.com ?If yes do you know do they provide tax, or after customizing (dv9000t) its the FINAL price>? or maybe you just know where to see this onfo)
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    4cefed4 Notebook Evangelist

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    I was wondering about the tax too. For a DV2000T I just customized, it cost $41 more from costco than from hp.com, but you can't beat that 6+ month return policy.
     
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    spitfire Notebook Consultant

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    YEA i customized my future dv9000t even more than at hpshopping.com , it would be great without tax!!!!!! And did you see the shipping is much faster than hp! So if someone finds out if costco shop has tax, please say me!)
    thanks
     
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    Thru www.COSTCO.COM I ordered a CTO'd dv8000t back in April 2006.... Ordered like on the 3rd, shipped the 7th, arrived East Coast U.S.A the 10th by 8:30am via Fed-Ex.

    Purchase was appox $1,500, sales tax was around $60..... Sales tax in my area was 8-9% so you can see the sales tax was fiqured at a differant rate (less, I think 4%)

    Ended up returning the unit due to issues... Got ALL my money back within MINUTES.

    Since that time I've made hundreds of posts, read thousands of pages of people having "problems"... alot of problems not coming "out" so to speak until after the normal "21-day" return window that HP offers... Units being sent in for "repair" not being fixed, or being damaged by HP's so called repair centers leaving the posters up the creek so to speak with very little options.

    You can buy from HP direct, but I wouldn't buy from anyone else except for Costco unless the deal was like 1/2 off....
     
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    4cefed4 Notebook Evangelist

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    I just ordered from Costco. They did charge me full NJ state sales tax (7%). There is big savings on the 2-year extended service plan, I went with that and the combined total with everything ended up being $20 less than from hpshopping.com. Without the extended service, it would have been about $40 more from costco.
     
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    Spitfire,

    You need to read thru this thread, and ask yourself if you really want to buy from anyone but www.COSTCO.com

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=57325

    HP 21-day return window

    Costco=180-day return window....

    Return to store, give ALL your money back, OR you can still send it in to HP for "repair" if you want....



    Read thru this thread on HOW to return to COSTCO, to make sure HP is hit with the loss on "problematic" units.

    In a nutshell from 0- 21 days Costco gets a full credit back on any return. AFTER 21 days thru the 180th day COSTCO takes the LOSS, unless the customer states there is a PROBLEM with the unit and the unit is marked "non-resaleable".

    Best place to buy an HP, How to get all your money back,and make sure mfg bears the brunt of the loss, instead of the reseller! (on defective units)

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=86901
     
    WeAreNotAlone, Nov 27, 2006
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