[nzlug] Dell are sooo pwn3d

[Alex Thomson]

I don't think Dell "imports" to NZ as such.  They get built to order 
from somewhere in Asia (can't remember where exactly) and shipped to 
your door.  I wouldn't consider the Asian market to be small by any means.

Also, something I think is a bit odd about the "US only" policy, is that 
compared to Europe, Linux adoption is not as great, so wouldn't it make 
sense to go into the Euro market first, if you were intending to sell as 
many Linux machines as poss?

Michael Dittmer wrote:
> You also have to remember with the Ubuntu based laptops that NZ is such a tiny (ie: pen-head sized) market compared to the US.
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> If I was Dell, I wouldn't waste my time importing Linux-based laptops in the NZ market just for a couple of people. It's not worth their time or expense.
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> My $0.02c for what it's worth.
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> Regards
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> Michael
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nzlug-bounces at linux.net.nz [mailto:nzlug-bounces at linux.net.nz] On Behalf Of Glen Ogilvie
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2007 4:06 p.m.
> To: NZLUG Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nzlug] Dell are sooo pwn3d
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> Hi All,
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> I've also been having a little battle with Dell, regarding buying a laptop
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> without windows.
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> I got a different story.  They would sell me any of the Lattude or
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> Precision models without windows ok. but they refused to sell me the
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> Inspiron 9400 without window, which of course was the one I wanted.   
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> Ended up paying the tax, to what I consider a competitor.
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> Also, their sales staff are not very easy to deal with, regarding trying to
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> purchase a machine without windows.. and they only ship their ubunto
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> laptops in the USA :(
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> Glen
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> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:56:13 +1200, David McNab <david at rebirthing.co.nz>
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>> Hi all,
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>> After receiving a Dell mailer in the letter box, I rang their sales
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>> They said definitely not, but told me I could simply re-format the drive
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>> Hmm, paying $100+ to a convicted monopolist for software I won't be
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>> using, that's a good option.... NOT!
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>> So I gave them a bit of a blast, and told them in no uncertain terms
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>> that it would be very good if they could reconsider their policy and
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>> allow purchase of machines without an OS, or allow me to get a refund
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>> for the OEM OS license fee. I also told them that no matter how good
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>> their deals are, there's no way in hell I'd buy a machine if there is an
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>> M$ tax in the price.
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>> So I mention it here, in the hope that there might be interest among the
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>> F/OSS community in pressuring Dell's NZ distributors to reconsider their
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>> Cheers
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>> David
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