lol ... oh i hate going in there .... they all have to talk like they know more then you <br>oh and make sure to let geek squad make sure you except the eula ...... <br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Mike Burns</b> <<a href="mailto:dmichael.burns@gmail.com">dmichael.burns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Heh, that reminds me of the last time I looked into buying a computer at<br>Best Buy. The salesman thought I was totally insane because I wanted one<br>without a hard drive full of Micro$oft Vista. He kept telling me how great
<br>Vista is and how secure, yada, yada.<br><br>Or better yet, when XP first came out and I had this guy from M$ try to<br>convince me that XP did not sit on top of DOS. He went so far as to tell me<br>that the cmd window that you can get on XP was an emulator that sits on top
<br>of XP. Well, I convinced him that if it was indeed an "emulator" that that<br>XP didn't sit on top of DOS, then we could just rename a couple of obvious<br>DOS files and XP would still boot. I didn't stick around long enough to see
<br>if he had to reinstall or just rescue mode from the CD-ROM, but the look on<br>his face was priceless when the computer gave him a black screen with the<br>white letters saying "Operating system not found." Naturally I had to throw
<br>in there the old, "well, I guess I was right and XP does sit on top of DOS."<br><br>Evil of me, I know, but there are just some people that are totally asking<br>for a headache.<br><br>Michael<br><br><br><br>
-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:qclug-bounces@qclug.org">qclug-bounces@qclug.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:qclug-bounces@qclug.org">qclug-bounces@qclug.org</a>] On Behalf Of<br>Mark Riedesel<br>Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:42 PM
<br>To: <a href="mailto:qclug@qclug.org">qclug@qclug.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [QCLUG] buying laptop from dell<br><br>I'm very satisfied with my dell laptop I purchased about a year ago. I<br>would doubt it Dell is going out of business anytime soon, considering
<br>this problematic shipping delays such as the one you've encountered are<br>probably an indicator of too much business and not having enough<br>employees to keep up with demand.<br><br>My biggest complaint with Dell would have to be their annoying pushing
<br>salespeople being super adamant about me buying hardware warranties or<br>"home support" to help me "remove viruses". I conversed with her for a<br>good 10 minutes, repeatedly stating that I'm not interested and she kept
<br>telling me to "think about it". So, yeah.. phone people = suck,<br>hardware itself = pretty satisfactory.<br><br>related article:<br><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/10/dude-youre-not-getting-a-dell-shipping-de">
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/10/dude-youre-not-getting-a-dell-shipping-de</a><br>lays-hound-pc-maker/<br><br>You could always throw this in Dell's face, maybe.. Nice little FTC<br>30-day rule:<br><a href="http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/mailorder.shtm">
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/mailorder.shtm</a><br><br>Mark<br><br><br>Noah Norris wrote:<br>> well honestly i dont know if dell is gona be around for much longer at<br>> there going rate<br>> ive ordered a laptop on 7/18/2007 and still no laptop , ive read lots of
<br>> stories of loads of people cancel orders<br>> i say this cause 10,000 people cancel there $1k-$3k orders thats gota hurt<br>><br>> customer service total blows you lucky to get someone to speak scripted
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