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Rich T finds some tasty titbits you might have missed in the week's news
Monday 26 March 2007, 6:13 PM
Swiss user wins Vista refund from Dell
After all our difficulties trying to purchase a naked PC from Dell, one user seems to have had rapid success, albeit in another country.
In case you missed it, when we posed as a user trying to buy a Dell machine without Windows, we were told by the computer giant that we had to take the Microsoft operating system, like it or not.
But a Swiss user, writing yesterday on Slashdot, said he (she?) got a refund from Dell with just two emails, claiming a princely sum of 77.54euros as a replacement for the Vista OS installed on his machine: a whacking 15 percent of the total price paid.
Maybe Dell Germany is cottoning on to the fact some people don't want to run Windows. Dell already sells naked PCs in the States. When will Dell UK catch on?
In case you missed it, when we posed as a user trying to buy a Dell machine without Windows, we were told by the computer giant that we had to take the Microsoft operating system, like it or not.
But a Swiss user, writing yesterday on Slashdot, said he (she?) got a refund from Dell with just two emails, claiming a princely sum of 77.54euros as a replacement for the Vista OS installed on his machine: a whacking 15 percent of the total price paid.
Maybe Dell Germany is cottoning on to the fact some people don't want to run Windows. Dell already sells naked PCs in the States. When will Dell UK catch on?
PreviousComments on this post
RIGHT ON! Why should you be forced to buy something you don't need, and aren't going to use? It's your money you should spend it on what you want, not on someone else's whim.
