DEAD DEAL-DELL XPS 1730 SLI 9800m gt for 1100$ SUPER SALE

I Agree I sold my other 1730 for 1850 on ebay and it had an X9000 and Blu Ray.. lol

 

Got my XPS this morning, I can confirm dual 9800m GT SLI



Congratz to everyone that jumped on it, awesome deal! The pictures don't do it justice, it looks so much better in person.

 

Grats! *high five*

 

i cant *USE* ebay.

i'm not crazy.

 

how come?? just curious?

 

Well, get a friend to *USE* it for you!


For a small handling fee, you could paypal (or send a cashiers check) me the money, and I'd do it, and ship it to you.

 

exactly...there are ways.. why spend 1000$ when you can spend under 400$

 

back in the day someone from the UK bought something from me..and didnt read item location etc. I put the shipping time as 3 weeks to the UK since he didn't want to expedite shipping.

He sent ebay/paypal a claim that I was fraudulent. since the item wasnt at his doorstep in 1 day. seriously. ONE DAY from NY->UK on regular international shipping.

They reversed all charges in my account totaling ~ $2800 USD to all the various people who paid me $. Paypal/eBay did not listen to me, even when I proved the item was shipped to him, and he received it. I had to fight tooth and nail to get my money back from all the other buyers.

I am indefinitely suspended from using paypal/ebay, for doing nothing wrong.

this is why i CANNOT use ebay/paypal, and even if i could...i refuse to.

 

i cannot use paypal. however i would be willing to do it with a money order if/when i decide to upgrade.

i have sold numerous things on NBR, as well as other forums..i have plenty of feedback.

 

i understand trust me ive been burned a couple times same type of issues one reason why i very VERY rarely ever ship outside of the us anymore. what i did was simply open a new paypal account with different credit card / bank info... but some people cant do that

 

i have tried, they close them.

funny thing is..at the time, ebay/paypal protected scammers more then legit people.

dont know if much that has changed.

 

did you use different name/address etc?

 

I've only ever sold one thing on eBay (motorcycle), but I have 100% positive feedback for purchases. If you ever wanted to, I'd do it for you. Or probaably half a dozen or so other people on this forum who have been around longer than I have. There are ways to get things done!

 

i used my mother in laws address thats all that time. but after almost a year i was able to use my old address again. i lost almost 4k$ to a sale outside of the usa myself so i know how you feel i never recovered my money though the sale was to one person when i used to own a car audio shop on one of the car audio forums they wanted to buy a whole system worth of stuff almost 4k$ and turned out i got burned on it

 

@pbcustom98 - Pm'd you

 

I use paypal alot and this story just makes my head explode... Sorry you had such a bad experience.

 

a note also anyone could buy it and simply add your address to the paypal account and have it shipped there....ive done it for some of my customers in the past to drop ship items

 

this is kinda off topic, but how much do you guys think this laptop is worth?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-XPS-M1730-X9000-2-8-Ghz-8800-GTX-SLI-4GB-RAID0_W0QQitemZ330330048043QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLaptops_Nov05?hash=item4ce934862b&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A1|39%3A1|240%3A1308|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50

I noticed it has the x9000.

 

Ask CSHawkeye81

 

i shall give this a go..no harm in trying i guess.

 

replied. and thanks.

 

Thats not mine, this was mine:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESOX:IT&item=270391517257

 

that has 8800GTX SLI...i thought you received 9800GT SLI?

unless i am mistaken?

 

I believe that was an older one he sold a week or two ago. He still has the one he bought from this deal or he returned it to dell.

 

I sent that one back to dell yesterday, the other one was my coworkers that he wanted me to sell for him. The guy who bought it is kind of a jerk as he kept calling me asking dumb questions and I even offered for 100 more to install a matching HD and setup a raid 0 and reinstall everything for him, but he said no.

 

Yeah, I knew it wasn't yours....I just couldn't resist giving you a poke. I figured you would be intimately knowledgeable about the value of one of these!

 

congrats to everyone who jumped on. great setup.

 

Lan party next weekend you up for it???

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-XPS-M1730-X9000-2-8-Ghz-8800-GTX-SLI-4GB-RAID0_W0QQitemZ330330048043QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLaptops_Nov05?hash=item4ce934862b&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A1|39%3A1|240%3A1308|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50


Oh my god, this was a steal wasn't it? I thought it would've gone for 1800. Damn I kinda wish I got it even though I don't need one til August.

 

for 1350 u can get the xps with dual sli 8800GTX on dell but it is stock configuration

 

It wasn't that much of a steal.....the x9000 only adds about 300 - 400 to the price


http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Core-2-Extreme-X9000-2-8Ghz-800Mhz-Laptop-CPU_W0QQitemZ170333146408QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item27a8a58d28&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A3|65%3A1|39%3A1|240%3A1308|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A100

 

I don't think it's the nice way to make money for this. There are already three M1730s on eBay with 9800M GT SLi. How many of these are coming from Notebookreview or sickdeals?

 

yeah man i agree with u

i really wanted to get one but some ppl get 5 so i wasn't able to get it

 

I got one, but if you take a look at the price very carefully this is not the best deal of the world. In order to surpass the performance of something like the following, you really have to spend a lot to upgrade.

http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ages2.Filter=&SessionId=0&SubmitAction.Show=x

 

Don't quote me on that....my link only pointed to a processor. I don't know of any NBR orders that ended up on ebay, and I will keep mine for sure. But I saw the ones you are talking about as well, and nice or not, if somebody spends their money and can make money off of the investment, who am I to question it. All it really means is that more people who really want one of these will have the opportunity to buy one (if they missed out on getting one from Dell). And the market will determine what they're worth. I see a lot of them on ebay with "buy it now" in the $1500 - 2500 range, and if somebody wants one bad enough they will pay it. I know I'm not going to force anybody to buy one.

 

You can't really blame them. There is nothing done wrong here ethically or morally.

 

i dont blame them either i just think that is "not cool"

 

Well thats the problem with most deals like this, most of us want just one ore 2 for ourselves, but there are others who ruin it all buy buying 5 or more and then resell them for a profit, but that's capitalism at its finest. For me it just sucked that he decided this week to sell that laptop as if we he decided 2 weeks ago it would have been closer to 2k or more.

 

yep one guy over at slickdeals i know ordered 20 of the 999$ systems!!!

 

Mine is still "order processing"
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I kind of hope it just gets canceled.

 

I kind of wish I held onto mine so people could get some kind of deal.

 

no .......... get it and just send it my way.... (please )

 

or me ..........

 

Idiot. Just the 9800M GT SLi makes people grab the system like crazy? I am actually battling through the priorities of upgrading which laptop I have now. I will probably get my P-7811FX and G50Vt-A1 out, keeping the Alienware and the M1730, but seriously after I look at the prices and the eBay markets, the $999 is actually the not best deal of the world. You grab the X9000 and it will be $300 and up. Damn I am getting my QX9300 soon but all the laptops I have will not support this beast! hahaha.

 

Sell them all and get a Precision M6400, you will thank me in the morning!

 

dude the 9800M GT SLi is pretty d@mn good

 

I don't think so, did you get my message 1 page ago, where a system with X9000, dual 8800M GTX SLi, RAID 0, WUXGA+, Blu-ray reader, and 4GB DDR2 cost about $1600? Bear in mind that 8800M GTX SLi is just as fast as 9800M GT SLi.

 

Both of my computers arrived today. Yey!

 

I am actually not a big fan of Dell. This is probably the first time(the only time too?!?!?) that I got Dell's laptops(XPS M1730). I hate their mechanical design, but the fact that they have good hardware configurations so it's not really a bad laptop. I am gonna get another M15x with FX3600M but I have to wait and see...

 

yes there is almost no difference between the 8800 and 9800 in fact i flashed my sager 8800gtx into a 9800gt when i had it. everything worked perfect and reported 9800gt. could be all dell is doing with these.. you never know..