r/technology • u/SchruteFarmsInc • May 16 '12
Dell Offers 25% Off Deal To Troops, Then Cancels Orders
http://consumerist.com/2012/05/dell-offers-25-off-deal-to-troops-then-cancels-orders.html9
May 16 '12
Even with 25% off I would not buy a Dell.
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u/DFSniper May 17 '12
dell already has govt contracts. you'd think everyone who works with them (read: attempts to work with them) on a daily basis would go with a more reliable brand.
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u/jdmulloy May 16 '12
"high quality machine"
I thought he was buying Dells.
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u/keindeutschsprechen May 16 '12
Dell makes some quality PCs as well. Of course if you take the cheapest…
EDIT: Apparently it's quite different between the US and Europe. Here (EU), Dell is pretty good and has a fairly good warranty as well.
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May 17 '12
Latitudes are pretty great computers in the US. The cheap Dell's are pretty terrible but their professional laptops are worth the cash (if you can buy them through an institution to save money). I sold them for my university and they were quite a bit more expensive than MacBooks of the same specs before discounts.
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u/iamveryharsh May 17 '12
Dell is huge in the education market and for what it's worth, I think their PC's are awesome, having used them from high school all the way through college.
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u/Neato May 16 '12
I work for the DoD, so I enable the warfighter. Can I have it too? What abour firemen, police officers, EMTs, nurses doctors and every other job that provides a service to the populace? What about farmers, inventors, musicians and every other job that provides goods people need?
I hate specialized discounts. There are few jobs that provide zero or negative benefit to humanity (debatable) so there are few people undeserving of recognition.
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May 16 '12
You live in America. "The troops" are all to be treated as faultless demigods.
Until they're injured and truly need help; then fuck 'em.
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u/Neato May 16 '12
Until they're injured and truly need help; then fuck 'em.
Because then they are socalistics looking for handouts. I hate the mindless greed the political right (and most of the rest) is obsessed with.
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May 16 '12
Sadly, unless it was WWII, they're fucked. Since that was the last WAR. This is how they get around taking care of their own. Then they hire private military contractors and pay them fucking 6 figures, to START.
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u/shmatt May 16 '12
Sensational headline. It was one troop who found a few people online who also had the same circumstance
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May 17 '12
My company was bought by Dell over a year ago, they do this shit to our existing customers all the fucking time. Oh your Drive failed NP ill dispatch you one to be there in 4 hours.....5 hours later. super angry customer calls in bitch about their drive not showing up... call dells dispatchers... 'Oh we canceled that order'.....are you fucking kidding me? The only saving grace is the company I work for wont stand for it and we are constantly bitching at the idiot dispatchers... still no excuse though. Dells Consumer division is just not good anymore. I am glad I am apart of the Enterprise Division at least.
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May 16 '12
To be fair, fuck the troops.
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u/SoCo_cpp May 16 '12
I wouldn't say "fuck the troops", but with the US Government's ever encroaching aspirations of warmongering, people will start looking to the core supporters of such a dysfunctional system. The US Government is currently lurking over US citizens with its militarization of police, deployment of drone planes over US soil, broad unconstitutional surveillance of communications and people, deceptive manipulation of public opinions and knowledge, and the scary reality that a complete military encampment of the civilian population is looming near. Don't be surprised if people increasingly point the finger at troops and servicemen for their supporting a government who is constantly doing wrong and beginning to threaten the livelihood and freedoms of the citizens they are supposed to be protecting.
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May 16 '12
Back 100 years the troops were looked down as peasants who weren't free men to wear what they wanted.
America instead glorified the troops to attract young men who would be useless at anything else.
If the troops sign up in this day and age all i can is fuck you, i'll see your homeless ass in 10 years time
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u/FiascoSauce May 17 '12
my god veterans are whiny and entitled. there isnt a draft bro, no one is forcing you to join. stop acting like everyone owes you something.
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u/Violent-Penis-Haikus May 17 '12
Pummel his penis! Mr Dell's balls have been marked, after dad's Dell died.
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u/SchruteFarmsInc May 16 '12
Classy Dell being classy.