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NuclearFart · 08-30-2009, 01:42 PM

I got an amazing deal on a XPS Dell Laptop just last month, about 1100$ off what they had originially tried to quote me:

Find the laptop you want on the dell.com website, then google that model for any extra discount E-codes that are floating around. Once you've got a price (save a photo of the checkout screen), find it on dell.ca where it will be significantly more. When you talk to their sales people they'll smugly tell you that you can't buy from dell.com because you live in canada, and therefore must submit to the canadian markup. That's when you tell them you're going to the US for a month, where you'll have a US address, so there is nothing stopping you from buying it there (and save money on some taxes), but you'd like to give dell.ca the chance to match the price so that you can get the laptop a little sooner. The salesperson quickly changed their tone and then had to speak with someone higher up to authorize it, but I got it at 50% off the best .ca price.

In truth I actually was going to be heading to states etc, but they never tried to call my bluff once. The sales person was whining about not making any commision either, but he had a quota of sales to fill for the month.

08-30-2009, 01:42 PM	#5
NuclearFart First Line Centre Join Date: Mar 2006 Exp:	I got an amazing deal on a XPS Dell Laptop just last month, about 1100$ off what they had originially tried to quote me: Find the laptop you want on the dell.com website, then google that model for any extra discount E-codes that are floating around. Once you've got a price (save a photo of the checkout screen), find it on dell.ca where it will be significantly more. When you talk to their sales people they'll smugly tell you that you can't buy from dell.com because you live in canada, and therefore must submit to the canadian markup. That's when you tell them you're going to the US for a month, where you'll have a US address, so there is nothing stopping you from buying it there (and save money on some taxes), but you'd like to give dell.ca the chance to match the price so that you can get the laptop a little sooner. The salesperson quickly changed their tone and then had to speak with someone higher up to authorize it, but I got it at 50% off the best .ca price. In truth I actually was going to be heading to states etc, but they never tried to call my bluff once. The sales person was whining about not making any commision either, but he had a quota of sales to fill for the month.