The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

TaBunny

https://www.student-laptops.co.uk also has good prices for reconditioned lappies too.  

If you're buying reconditioned, check the machine comes with software, you'd be surprised when you read the small print how many companies will supply you with a blank hard drive!


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Thanks for this site they were so helpful on phone, I told them everything I needed for my daughter for uni and they suggested one a lot cheaper than I was originally going to buy, in the end got an IBM 600E thinkpad with a brand new battery (on ebay they are £60 new) dvd, floppy, pentium II, windows ME installed and lots of office, word and desktop publishing, USB's etc, etc all for £249 I took the extra 3 year insurance out for £120 making a grand total of £369 with free postage I reckon I got a bargain. Hope my daughter will like it. I checked on ebay and the same models are going reconditioned by power sellers for over £400 and thats without a guaranteed battery wow so I'm happy and it was well within my meagre budget so thanks to the person who pointed out this site and they had excellent customer service.
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hi123

managed to get a sony vaio415b ,celeron processor 2.8,512 ddram,40gb hard drive,with floppy drive ,dvd and cdrewriter 15inch screen
from catalogue bargains at castleford,marked for £775 but was given 100£ off on top
that i thought was good price but bad news is wife wants sony tr2 the slim line stuff

adjests

Hi, I'm new to the site.
I am considering buying the laptop and find it astonishing that it is almost half the price compared to any other retailer.
Has anyone bought anything from 'Everything Electrical'? I would be interested in any feedback before I take the plunge.

Cheers

zcaprd7

Tabun 38 - I'm not sure the insurance was worth it - could you not buy another one for £200 odd if anything went wrong?  

You might also get some insurance coverage on your household policy and in any case your daughter probably should get some cover of her own?

Sorry, a bit late now but...

I just got a cheapy laptop from http://www.morgan-auction.co.uk/  for £120 - P2 400Mhz - nothing special but should be (just about) good enough to network with my main PC and use for internet/Office applications.

trouty_2

I too was drawn in by the price!! Waited until this morning to phone everything electrical and make an order - I was told laptops were in stock and to order I would have to print off order form and post to them with a cheque. I said I would like to pay over the phone by credit card but was told they did not accept credit cards?
I printed off the form and had a look around the site which looks very 'amateurish', lots of spelling mistakes even in the postal address!!?? I'm not saying that this suggests anything particularly suspect but doesn't make me feel too confident when I'm about to post a chunky cheque to them.
Only living an hour away from their HQ I decided to ring back and say that I would visit them and pay cash for my goods - I was told I wasn't allowed to do this!? I asked for history on the company and the telephonist said she was just on reception and couldn't answer such questions but would get someone to ring me - I'm waiting for the call.
I'll keep you posted and am keen to know how the original poster found the site? I've done many searches and it's never returned a result?
May be a great 'money saving' tip but I suggest 'caveat emptor' for the time being!!

crazygirl

I was drawn in by the price too, and was waiting until Friday (payday!) to get it, but the website does look dodgy. I'm torn on what to do now. Even their email address doesn't look right - everythingelectrical@emailaccount.com
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I'd be grateful if you do report back on what you find out!

kevbo

I have been tempted by the price offered by everything electrical and at the risk of being duped I sent a cheque safe in the knowledge I could cancel it if things didnt go well. I have treid to find out if my order has been recieved on several occasions today only to have my details taken and offered a call back. Not impressed, cancelled cheque, will be buying elsewhere. hope this helps

wingatewood

I am yet another person who has been tempted by the offer from Everything Electrical. Have spoken to two different woman there this morning and on the second occasion I asked to speak to the propriator Mr Cahill and was informed that he was out doing deleveries - how many directors do you know who carry out their own deliveries?

I also asked if the goods were either reconditioned or catalogue returns and was told that they were not. I also enquired as to why I could not pay for the laptop online and was told that their server was down but I could send a cheque! I DON'T THINK SO!

Enquired as to how long delivery would take and was told possibly 14 days, why so long I asked and was told that they wait for several orders to build up before despatch - again very odd indeed.

I don't know if anybody has noticed this yet, have a look on their website and click the little tab under the header panel (top right) you will see that this is a link to a Do-It-Yourself web building site
which explains why the site looks so tacky.

Almost forgot I was told that Mr Cahill would return my call tomorrow (Tues).

Will report back if I hear anything and please post if anybody else hears anything as well.

ds3727

Not to jump on the band wagon but I had pretty well the same responses as wingatewood yesterday, the first woman I spoke too ( and possibly the only one in the office) said they take PAYPAL but this was currently not working. Surely PAYPAL just requires a valid e-mail address as supplied on the quality website, this also implies to me that they do accept credit card transactions and the story they only take cheques to keep the costs down falls away...as I think PAYPAL charge them about 2% for each transaction.
I hope this is all of us looking for something to be wrong as I WANT TO BELIEVE....... ???

mc1958

Did anyone have any joy with the £399 laptop advertised on everythingelectrical website? I would be interested but don't really want to commit myself until some positive feedback from this company.Has anybody bought anything from them? ??? ::)