The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

chocolateteddy

MiM wrote: »

Getting back to the subject though...

The Toshiba at Bennetts is now out of stock, as is the second one mentioned by Chocolate Teddy.

With the 10% off code for new registrations, does anyone have any thoughts about whether any of the other laptops are worth going for?

Many thanks.

I ordered a Toshiba l300 1aq from Bennetts online yesterday after my sister had been into bennetts locally and they said they had stock but couldn't give the 10% instore (online was showing no stock) they said their website wasn't updating properly.
So despite it saying no stock for purchase online it went through although it said awaiting status!!
Today I rang them to see what was happening and they said yes they did have stock and it would go through today and it would be with me within 3 to 5 working days (prob end of next week) they hadn't updated website slight glitch!!
So all I can say is try and order one what have you got to lose. I went through topcashback and got 4% (including a 104% topup meaning £14 back - already tracking) with the 10% off at bennetts re online newsletter email signup I paid on my cashback card:D £352.33 (meaning another £3.50!!) so altogether for the starting price of £391 I will technically pay just under £335:T They only have 14 stores and their customer service line does get busy because there are at times only 2 people working but they were very helpful.

Good luck

chocolateteddy

By the way to get the bennetts 10% off you need to go to their homepage and on right side is a box showing the offer, Just sign up for their email newsletter and immediately a 10% off code jumps into your inbox Great offer can soon cancel newsletter once you've got your computer!!
Haven't found any other offers to match it,

paulus123

Dell Vostro

Choose your own specs from the Dell website then ring them up and tell them you want XP as the OS rather than Vista.
It will not let you choose XP on the website but they should still be able to do that over the phone

You will pick something very decent up for about £400

JDPower

paulus123 wrote: »

Dell Vostro

Choose your own specs from the Dell website then ring them up and tell them you want XP as the OS rather than Vista.
It will not let you choose XP on the website but they should still be able to do that over the phone

You actually can order them with XP online, it costs an extra £40 as you get XP installed and a Vista disc too so you can install it if you want. Having said that I would be pretty sure (having negotiated with Dell before) you could phone up and get it with JUST XP and NO Vista disc for no extra cost

partner03

Hi there, I am one of the unfortunate ones to have "bought" a NC10 from CGKELECTRICALS on Ebay. They are nothing short of con artists. I bought 2 days before Ebay suspended them, if Buster is not back at work yet I wonder if he could pop round and pick mine up for me. They are as nice as pie on the phone but have no intention of sending my item. I paid through Paypal and my credit card just to be safe so hopefully should get my money back. I f I don't may have to take a little trip to buy some fish. They have a website now ***** where they are offering 10% off what you would normally get conned out of which is a nice gesture for Christmas.

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stamford

partner03 wrote: »

Hi there, I am one of the unfortunate ones to have "bought" a NC10 from CGKELECTRICALS on Ebay. They are nothing short of con artists. I bought 2 days before Ebay suspended them, if Buster is not back at work yet I wonder if he could pop round and pick mine up for me. They are as nice as pie on the phone but have no intention of sending my item. I paid through Paypal and my credit card just to be safe so hopefully should get my money back. I f I don't may have to take a little trip to buy some fish. They have a website now www.sg-electricals.co.uk/index.asp where they are offering 10% off what you would normally get conned out of which is a nice gesture for Christmas.

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Interesting site. I see they have a Freephone number 08002425409 - would I be correct in assuming they have to pay BT for the calls they receive from disgruntled customers ?

partner03

I am looking forward to tomorrow as I was phoning them on there old phone no at "their pet shop" every hour before christmas but it was costing me minutes on my mobile but now i can phone them for free. I wonder how many phone calls it would take on their 0800 no to cost more than they have conned me out of. They hung up on me the one time I phoned and turned on the fax machine so I faxed them Can I have my money back no reply how rude.

buster1980

acording to my brother the electrical shop cgkelectricals has stopped trading only the pet shop is there so i guess you was all right they where in to try and con people , hope everyone gets there money back if you need address details or anything let me know

stamford

buster1980 wrote: »

acording to my brother the electrical shop cgkelectricals has stopped trading only the pet shop is there so i guess you was all right they where in to try and con people , hope everyone gets there money back if you need address details or anything let me know

You were really lucky to get those cracking deals on the laptop & the nintendo ds before they stopped trading. I hope there's no problems with them 'cos you can't take them back now. Did you manage to pick up any cheap games there ?

partner03

What info have you got buster? Looking through the previous postings you seem to be one of the lucky one to have recieved your netbook. As far as I am concerned they are still trading and as Gary who claims to run the pet shop side of things has his name on all the emails sent to me he will be the one who I shall continue to phone until I get my money back