Cha-ching!

[kingandy]

Fancy a 15" flatscreen monitor for less than £200?  You have to take a computer off their hands first...

Using the Shop By E-Value Code option on the Dell UK site, enter 305-d1027d (ut's a shortcut to thr pre-packaged system).  What's that you say?  £500+? Time to do something about that - drop the "Enhanced Service Pack" to 1 year CAR, "Memory" option to 256MB Single Channel DDR 333, and select the Dell E153FP 15" Value Flat Panel Monitor as your monitor.  Leave all the other options as they are, Continue  through Services and Accessories, and add it to your cart.  But that's still £230, you say.  Not so!  Dell's offering £40 off selected setups this month; enter voucher code 2CH8N$N0BGN5V9.  Total cost: £189.67.

It looks like a pretty good deal to me, most of the people in the office seem to be excitedly ordering them.  (Hell, even if it's a shitty flatscreen, it's still a flatscreen, with a not-too-bad-at-all system thrown in to boot.) If anybody who knows more about hardware or - f'rexample - the hardware retail business could point out any obvious flaws, I'd welcome any input...

UPDATE: Looks like they have noticed their mistake - they've moved the goalposts. Base price is still the same, only the cheap-ass monitor and minimum RAM is standard rather than a lower-scale option. So the lowest you can get it is £400. Should have placed that order while I could...


IN UNRELATED NEWS, the description of November's Doctor Who book release, The Indestructible Man, seems strangely familiar. One man fate has made indestructible? PRISM? SILOET? Secret airborne landing strips? This is the voice of the Myloki...

Note to self: Use fewer ellipses...

Comments

[kingandy]

I wasn't specifically looking, it was forwarded to me by a friend ... and it's slightly less appealing without the attached PC. ;)

That said, it is my birthday soon, I could ask my mum for some cash towards one ... what's your best value-for-money 17"er?

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=1622&category_id=38&manufacturer_id=0

[kingandy]

I like how you turn it being beige into a selling point. A God among men, sah.

I will consider it ... do you get any sort of finder's fee for recommending things to friends? You should.

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

I managed to make SD memory cards the most attractive product in the world, recently. They're boring as fuck.

"When you're a keen photographer, snapping away at a wedding, football match or birthday party, the very last thing you want to see is ' Error : out of disk space! ' pop up on your digital display. Well, with our offer of a massive 1GB of storage space, for an amazingly low price of less than £60 including VAT you'll never have to miss another photo opportunity! Capable of storing more than 500 high-resolution pictures taken by a 4 Megapixel Camera, Integral's 1GB Secure Digital Memory Card is a fantastic bargain.

An essential buy for anyone with an interest in digital photography."

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

your job sounds fun.

[kingandy]

The power of suggestion...

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

It's hell, as you can see...

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

Although they made me change it from a birthday party to something else, and remove the line;

"You'll never again have to live with little Timmy's tears as you tell him "No more photos today" at his 5th birthday party."

bastards

[kingandy]

Next time they try to tell you humour has no place in advertising, tell them they are wrong.

Try pointing them to here...