Hot: Altec Lansing ADA880 Speakers -- $23.47 shipped!

[IgoByte]

Decent speakers for an awesome price.

 

[worms]

Have you guys seen the bizarre eBay apology?

 

[iamme]

I honestly don't see anything wrong with buying many products at a great price and then selling them for profit. Back when I was in college, I did this to afford a PDA that I probably wouldn't have been able to buy otherwise.



But, for those idiots who post eBay Dutch auctions, when they haven't even got the products yet..........they deserve to pay for their stupidity.

 

[iamme]

<< Have you guys seen the bizarre eBay apology? >>



Is this the guy who had a Dutch auction for a 100 earlier? What a putz.

 

[iamme]

Hey I'm a Senior member now

 

[mcdull]

I agreed with what alkemyst said. what I believe is the purpose of this forum are for us, normal poor guy, to find a good deal and save money, but not to make money out of these deals or simply ruin the deal.

There is nothing wrong to buy a lot and resell them but don't brag here which is not welcomed. Beside, buying a lot will ruin the deal most likely and who's really suffered are those who only want to buy one for themselves, not those greedy reseller.

I ordered one early in this deal when there're less than 10 posts in this thread, though I think I should have ordered one more for my girl friend.

 

[Jened]

i still don't have any proof this is a pricing error. they are refurbs of an old model. from the reviews, they are not top of the line in quality although very, very good deal for $25. tons of people called Dell to order via phone as they could not figure out how to get the 15% small business discount. i think dell would have caught this from the calls and started cancelling orders if it was really a misprice.

 

[HappyPuppy]

I will laugh in the faces of the doomsayers until they are proven right. I remember with glee the Dell Radeon 8500 deal from October. The same doomers were saying the same thing: Pricing error. They can't possibly have enough of them. They aren't retail, they're OEM. They're refurbs. They're made with substandard components. They aren't really ATI, they're third party. You'll never get them. I'm cancelling my order because Dell is sh!t. I'm cancelling my order because I have to wait too long. I'm cancelling my order because the drivers are no good. I'm a child of the present and crave instant gratification and if I can't have the immediately I refuse to take them (it, sorry). You're only going to get a discount certificate. Dell is going to charge your CC and never ship the card.

Geez. I don't know if everybody got their 8500, but I got mine and so did a lot of other people. This could easily be an end of year inventory clearance, plus, even if Dell only breaks even it will look good on their bottom line for sales this year. Sales growth is what gets people to buy their stock, not profit. Just look at Amazing Amazon. They have never posted a profit but their yearly sales continue to climb and people keep buying their stock.

I ordered three sets at three separate times after clearing my cookies after each purchase so I would get free shipping on all of them. If they come, and I believe they will eventually (probably not y the Dec. 21 date they suggest), I will be a happy puppy and if they don't then no harm , no foul. It only cost me a few minutes of my time.

Edit: In reference to the posts about people buying bunches of these. I ordered three because 1 is going on my main rig and the other two I'm going to try to hook up to TVs. If I can get them to work off the TVs then I'll buy DVD players for both of them. Reselling them never crossed my mind. I'd like to see as many people as possible benefit from this hot deal.

 

[JJordan]

Anyone found Dells' Pricing Error Policy (if they have one) -- I have not. Their Terms of Sale allow them to cancel any orders palced for multiple products that are purchased for re-sale, so they can screw over all the flea-bayers if they want to. For everyone else, it says

<< Orders are not binding upon Dell until accepted by Dell. >>

I guess the issue will be when is the order "accepted" unless someone finds a pricing policy that says all web orders are subject to be voided if Dell screws up.

 

[VH2000]

I received "Order Acknowledgement" for my order, but no confirmation yet.
Ordered 12/12/01 at 8:40 am.

Anyway, just for the hell of it, I called Dell this morning at around 11am EST and ordered one set
of the Altec Lansing Speaker (ADA880). I ordered under a friends name (new account),
they took the order and said that shipping was scheduled for 12/26. BTW - Price $24.99.
There was no discount any longer and the shipping was like $13.xx - came to $38.xx total.
Still a good price, if they come through.

So, if these are pricing errors, why are they STILL taking orders??

Anyways, if my other orders ship before 12/26, I might just cancel this order.
(I ordered 2 in my other order)

I'm holding out hope!!

 

[pslak]

Ordered one. Hopefully they comes..

 

[alkemyst]

that ebay apology is now sure to be the end to his account....what's to stop other's from making similar auctions and going: 'to get the same deal I got just go to this website [which is really their own]'

what a nutsack.

 

[WhiteMouse]

I know sb. got the confirmation email (and I saw it!), and the shipping date is Dec. 23. But the problem is I have not received my confirmation email, and he placed his order later than me, and it was me who told him this deal, and I only ordered one!

:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|

 

[jbloggs]

I Placed an order for 1 set yesterday and got the 2 emails from Dell with estimated delivery on or before 21st Dec. Hoping for the best but if it does not happen then so be it and onto the next deal.

Oh by the way, thanks for posting the deal.

 

[sueyko]

From what I've seen so far I think they will make good on the orders. Some people are reporting they have an estimated ship date of 12/21 while others have 12/26. Dell hasn't contacted any of the purchasers yet either about cancellation. I also noticed now that the item is no longer on their website. I'm betting they will ship it.

 

[dpid]

"Sales growth is what gets people to buy their stock, not profit. Just look at Amazing Amazon. They have never posted a profit but their yearly sales continue to climb and people keep buying their stock."


it's more to do with future inflows than sales... how investors think a company can make profits later. ultimately profit is all important

 

[Pothead]

Someone tell that ebay guy to learn to spell...sheeeeesh, that apology gave me a headache.

 

[Jgtdragon]

VH2000, so you call them and they did sell it at $24. Doesn't that prove its not a pricing error?

 

[VH2000]

<< VH2000, so you call them and they did sell it at $24. Doesn't that prove its not a pricing error? >>



To me it does, especially considering many people had ordered over 24 hrs ago, if not before.
If it was a price error, I would have to think they would have caught it by then
That was 11am EST this morning and they were apparently "still available".

But what worries me is that I'm still waiting for the 2nd email (Confirmation)
for my order placed online 12/12 10am EST. I received "acknowledgement" email.

Where the hell is that order?
I hope it doesn't end up behind the one I phoned in this morning!! :disgust:

 

[Jgtdragon]

VH2000,
Same thing happened to me. I order one at 3:00 PM EST for $33 (The 15% and free shipping didn't work). I didn't get anything for couple hours, so I ordered again at $22.90 (The 15% and shipping worked this time). Later that day I got two "acknowledgement " for each of the orders plus the confirmation email for the $22.90 order with ship date 12/21/01.
This morning received another "acknowledgement" email for the $33, but no comfirmation email.

WTF?

 

[badboy82]

UPDATE: Dell has removed the ADA880 from its small business section AND home section

 

[eugovector]

What I like about the apology is after he admits to selling a product he did not have, he has the balls to, in his final "sentence", ask for help from the people he screwed to pay for the fees for listing the apology. By my figures, if he receives no bids, he only pays the insertion fee of $3.30, what a cheapskate!!

Even if he gets 100 bids for $50, he should only owe ebay about $100.

We should all go bid on his sorry ass. Atleast most of the deal killers here have the decency to wait until they recieve the goods before they go about sticking it to the general public for their own profit.

 

[tazmania99]

Finally, the deal is dead! The speaker can no longer be found on Dell.

Just received the 2nd confirmation of my order that was placed last night.

 

[Y23KC]

I guess this deal is dead. I clicked the link and it said product not found. I did a search, and it came up with nothing.

 

[VH2000]

<< What I like about the apology is after he admits to selling a product he did not have, he has the balls to, in his final "sentence", ask for help from the people he screwed to pay for the fees for listing the apology. By my figures, if he receives no bids, he only pays the insertion fee of $3.30, what a cheapskate!!

Even if he gets 100 bids for $50, he should only owe ebay about $100. >>



Let all get together and PayPal him $.01 each - this should help him a little!