Thread: Dell has the N900 for as low as $442
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Rushmore is offline Rushmore
2009-11-18 , 19:15
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Originally Posted by twoboxen View Post
If you can't afford to honor coupons, then don't advertise them. All coupons are completely valid as issued, I think. Dell has deep enough pockets to sell the phones as the final price ($441 + tax). Don't be a bunch of d-bags, Dell. Do the right thing and quit f'ing with your customers. And IF you do cancel, you are complete a-holes for not doing it within a business day or two.
Five years ago- yes, Dell had deeper pockets. As I posted before, if Dell can find an easy way out of this, they will claim they canceled due to back-orders, but will somehow have no problem shipping to all of the people that paid the $600 price. Nokia is eating the $50 rebate, not Dell or anyone else.

Summary in simple numbers:

Dell has 1,400 preorders and 1,000 phones in the shipment allocation for them. What chance do you all think the $442 price orders have a chance of being filled verses $600? ZERO

$148 time each unit will tell you the answer

If Dell is constrained with supply, we have virtually no chance of seeing the orders be honored. Ever.

Added:

Let us hope they have plenty of N900's in their allocation and do not freeze some of it and claim "back-ordered". They would then purge the back-orders and magically have stock again
Last edited by Rushmore; 2009-11-18 at 19:20.