Warm maybe ... Gateway buy a computer get one free sale

[Frosty3799]

Link to deal

You buy the Gateway 700XL or 600XL, and get a Gateway 300s value for free

The 700xl Desktop is a P4 3.06/512 RDRAM/2x200 gig HD/DVD-RAM\DVD-R drive/48x24x48 CDRW/19" LCD/ etc.

The 600xl Laptop is a P4 2.2-M/512 DDR/60 gig/24x10x24 CDRW and 8x DVD

The 300s desktop is a Celeron 2.0/128 DDR/40 gig/48x24x48 CDRW/ no monitor

So basically, if you were planning on buying a new top of the line Gateway anyway, now you get a free computer with it

Hope someone benifits from this

Josh

 

[Goosemaster]

They must be REALLY desperate

 

[olouie]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
They must be REALLY desperate

 

[GoodToGo]

The way Dell is making money Gateway has to do something to prevent getting overwhelmed.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: GoodToGo
The way Dell is making money Gateway has to do something to prevent getting overwhelmed.

That was my underlying point.


Dell is the Microsoft of the OEM market.

 

[GoodToGo]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: GoodToGo
The way Dell is making money Gateway has to do something to prevent getting overwhelmed.

That was my underlying point.


Dell is the Microsoft of the OEM market.

At least Dell is not associated with Palladium

 

[johto]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: GoodToGo
The way Dell is making money Gateway has to do something to prevent getting overwhelmed.

That was my underlying point.


Dell is the Microsoft of the OEM market.

walmart is the microsoft of the retail world. yeah yeah, ot.

fyi the 700xl is 3.5k... that's a "bit" much even for a nice looking machine.

 

[Miramonti]

Dell made no bones about it on the tech downturn, they were going out to destroy the competition (gateway). I checked some gateway prices recently for some digicams and with the outdated/overpriced items they had their, I think gateway is trying to destroy themselves.

 

[schuang74]

Personally (not to get too far off the topic), I think Gateway kicked themselves in the butt the moment they opened a Gateway Country Store........... Instant Sales tax for everyone whey you buy a Gateway (well at least if you have a Gateway Contry Store in your state). Dell on the other hand for all home purchases, no tax unless you live in Texas.

 

[agent2099]

That is one expensive desktop.

 

[bizeesheri]

I went to my local Gateway store last weekend, looking at their 300 series. Looking for a nice, but not full of latest equipment PC for my daughter. The 300 series was around 599.00 I think, and it is NOT upgradeable. It has 128meg RAM which I would have wanted to upgrade. No dice.

No way was I spending 600 on a non-upgradeable PC.

Going to end up at Costco for their emachine 1.6 gig, 256 meg, cd-rw, dvd, 40gig, 17in monitor for 650.00 no rebates. I dont want to lay out 900.00 and have to wait for rebates (BB has similar emachine for 650 with rebates)

 

[jimmyhaha]

$3499 for 2 POS gateway..

lol, no thanks..

built your own if u can,

or buy a dell..heck ~ $600-700

 

[johto]

Originally posted by: schuang74
Personally (not to get too far off the topic), I think Gateway kicked themselves in the butt the moment they opened a Gateway Country Store........... Instant Sales tax for everyone whey you buy a Gateway (well at least if you have a Gateway Contry Store in your state). Dell on the other hand for all home purchases, no tax unless you live in Texas.

actually, there is dell home tax in a few other states (5?) including my 2 of florida and wisconsin.

 

[BuddyLee]

You would be better off with a refurbed Dell than a new eMachines.

Dimension 4500 (Service Tag No. 4DL5Z11)
Dimension® 4500 Series: Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.0 GHz, 400MHz system bus & 512K L2 Cache, Premium Sound

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

System Price $800.00
Promotion Discount ($125.00)
Discounted Price $675.00
Promotion End Date Dec 12, 2002

Memory: 256 MB DDR SDRAM 266MHz (1 DIMM)
Floppy Drive: 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive
Hard Disk Drive: 40 GB EIDE Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
Video: 32 MB ATI Rage Ultra 4X AGP Video
Modem: 56K Telephony Modem for Windows-Sound Option
Sound Card: SB LIVE! Value Digital Sound Card
Network Interface Card: PCI Ethernet Card
CD Read-Write Drive: 40X/10X/40X CDRW Drive
DVD Drive: 16X DVD-ROM
Software: Software
Image Expert Standard Software
DVD Software
AOL 7.0/MSN Internet Access
Microsoft Windows® XP Home Edition
Norton AntiVirus 2002 Software
Music Match 7.1 Software
Microsoft® WorksSuite 2002
Resource CD
Misc: Logitech PS2 Mouse
QuietKey Keyboard
Shipping Material


Wait till about 3am and pick it up for a couple hundred less, buy a 17" monitor for around $100.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: jimmyhaha
$3499 for 2 POS gateway.. lol, no thanks.. built your own if u can, or buy a dell..heck ~ $600-700

You won't get a dell for much cheaper than this, if at all. This has a 19" lcd, a 3.06p4, 2x200gb hd's, dvd/cd writer, and 512mb 1066 rdram. I did a quick config on dell and it was just as much...I didn't try to match all specs tho, but that was even with only 1 200gb drive. The dell I looked at was the home/homeoffice 8000 something config.

 

[yatolik]

well, the dell actually comes out to more than this on standard home configuration... but we don't buy standard home configurations in hot deals, do we

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: yatolik
well, the dell actually comes out to more than this on standard home configuration... but we don't buy standard home configurations in hot deals, do we

nope.

 

[EdwardChang]

Originally posted by: olouie

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
They must be REALLY desperate

And everyone says...

Amen

 

[redban]

God I hate bad facts.

the 300 series from Gateway IS UPGRADABLE.

It doesnt have a agp slot, BUT you can upgrade memory and the hard drive. For $50 more you can also make the mini tower a mid tower so you can throw a PCI video card in or sound card...Its not a bad PC for $499, ($399 after rebate, no monitor) But, of course I dont buy cheap crap, You get what you pay for.

I have 2 New Gateway desktops, and 2 Gateway laptops in my house, all purring nicely..

As for Dell, dont even get me started, my DRU-500A still isnt shipped and now there saying January 15... Funny how dell doesnt even list the sony drives on their website anymore, funny how this is my third order from dell and ALL 3 ORDERS I HAVE NEVER RECIEVED.. looks like another cancel my order call.

 

[redban]

Oh and dell has tax in Ohio also.

 

[partialwrtx]

I have a grudge against Gateway. A while back, they were offering a clearance price of $10 for each of their 5gb PCMCIA HD's for laptops. Their retail price was like $200 each but the rebates brought the price down to $10 each. So I placed an order for 3 of them and my order got cancelled the very next day because they said the units were out of stock even though their website clearly mentioned they still had stock left. Their customer service dept. was very rude and unprofessional. Needless to say, they screwed me over and I was pissed at them ever since and vowed never to do business with them again. Dell's customer service is getting pretty bad too now, but it's nowhere as bad as Gateway's is IMO.

 

[redban]

Dude, you got angry at a $10 hard drive deal gone sour. Good reason.

 

[codeyf]

Originally posted by: redban
Dude, you got angry at a $10 hard drive deal gone sour. Good reason.

ROFL!!!

 

[partialwrtx]

Originally posted by: redban
Dude, you got angry at a $10 hard drive deal gone sour. Good reason.

Dude, it was a $200 drive that had rebates to make the final price $10. And it's not the lack of HDs that pissed me off, it's the company itself and their relations with customers. THeir rules also state that they are obligated to substitute this with a similar product if the supply runs out, but they said that since many people jumped on the deal, they weren't gonna honor their promise. All in all, a very bad experience with Gateway.

 

[C'DaleRider]

Originally posted by: redban
God I hate bad facts.

the 300 series from Gateway IS UPGRADABLE.

It doesnt have a agp slot, BUT you can upgrade memory and the hard drive. For $50 more you can also make the mini tower a mid tower so you can throw a PCI video card in or sound card...Its not a bad PC for $499, ($399 after rebate, no monitor) But, of course I dont buy cheap crap, You get what you pay for.

I have 2 New Gateway desktops, and 2 Gateway laptops in my house, all purring nicely..

As for Dell, dont even get me started, my DRU-500A still isnt shipped and now there saying January 15... Funny how dell doesnt even list the sony drives on their website anymore, funny how this is my third order from dell and ALL 3 ORDERS I HAVE NEVER RECIEVED.. looks like another cancel my order call.

Funny....we've all most likely had to wait for OOS stuff to become in stock. I guess if you are too impatient, call. Since you said "...another cancel my order call.", that's maybe why you never receive anything. Cancel and it never delivers.

I've ordered over a dozen computers and many, many parts from Dell......had to wait a bit for some of the popular parts, but I've always had the part delivered. Of course, I didn't call to cancel, then blast Dell for not delivering after I cancel.