Can You Haggle With Dell

kah22

I'll be buying a new laptop soon and have narrowed my choice down to two machines:

Dell Inspiron-1764-N0076406 and the
Acer Aspire 7740-334G50Mn

Price wise there is little between the two. The main difference seems to be the Dell offers an i5 cpu and 350GB HD while the Acer offers i3 plus 500GB HD

I'm not a power user or gamer, and I can't see the machine getting to many outings so this time I thought I'd try a 17 inch should be better for watching movies.

Anyway I was wondering if you can haggle with Dell in much the same way as you sometimes can with SKY. My current laptop is an Inspiron and I've had no bother with it so I am been drawn towards that machine.

I'm thinking of emailing them giving them the two models offering to buy within 24 hours if they give me a better deal: lower price, higher speck, whatever. I was also thinking of cold calling them and doing the same thing.

I'm sure some moneysavers have tried this, I'd like to know your tactics and of course results.

Kevin

John_Gray

Are you going to buy 100 laptops? If so, you could probably get the price shaved. For one, they might not be too bothered if you bought it from Acer or from themselves.

Try towards the end of a month, or a quarter of their financial year, and you may get a better result than on 2nd August!

Trinitrotoluene

If you were buying multiple bits of equipment, maybe. But if you are only buying one there is no change in hell Dell with haggle with you.

tronator

John_Gray wrote: »

Are you going to buy 100 laptops? If so, you could probably get the price shaved.

If you buy a few PC's/laptops from time to time then you can haggle. It's surely much less than 100 pieces. If you bought enough in the past then you will get your own account manager at Dell and then you can haggle even if you buy one laptop. But he will make you a good price anyway in most cases.

I agree that they will not haggle for one laptop if you are a first time buyer. Maybe if you buy a server for a couple of thousand £££ ...

robt_2

Trinitrotoluene wrote: »

If you were buying multiple bits of equipment, maybe. But if you are only buying one there is no change in hell Dell with haggle with you.

Totally wrong. They will do if you phone up to order it. If they won't knock the price down they will throw in free accessories.

I am speaking from ten years experience - you are either guessing wrongly or have been very unlucky with the operator you spoke to when you ordered!

RuthnJasper

Personally, I'd go for the Dell. I had an Acer and it wasn't that reliable. Sorry I can't help with the main question, though I'd echo the poster who mentioned waiting until the end of the Month/Quarter. The best time of all is towards the end of the financial year (end of March), as they'll be desperate to meet their sales targets.

Good luck to you. x

rdpro

robt wrote: »

Totally wrong. They will do if you phone up to order it. If they won't knock the price down they will throw in free accessories.

I am speaking from ten years experience - you are either guessing wrongly or have been very unlucky with the operator you spoke to when you ordered!

I agree, order by phone, dither until they start chucking in freebies (ensure you get a good deal on an extended next day warranty, they certainly can be beaten down on these).

If all else fails, see if the model you're after is on ecomputers (discount Dell resellers on Ebay). Avoid refurbished, look up the cancelled order stuff, as these are brand new boxed with full warranty. They are laptops built to order, which have then been cancelled.

bignred05

I ordered a laptop once from Dell,can't remember why however I decided to cancel the order I had made (only made a few days earlier)
anyway in order to convince me to keep the pre-ordered laptop I was offered a 10% discount off (was alos offered various bits at first, however as I was not intertested in a free printer etc) the original order price

hence I kept the laptop

so the moral of the tale is order your laptop (I did it on line) phone up within 24-48 to cancel the wait and see what Dell say

davester

Use Topcashback you get 6-7% off the none tax price. My £810 laptop last year, with their £265 and free delivery, and a 10% discount code then the £30 from topcashback made the total price £530

dinosaur_l

Hi all

Does anyone know if cashback (quidco) still happens if one chooses to "buy now, pay later" or pay in installments?

I assume answer is "no" of the former option... Not sure about second one...

Thanks!

irace

I have no experience in buying from dell but would be surprised if you phone their sales team and they don't give you any freebies! At the end of the day thats why companies have sales teams really!!... for a bit of leverage!