Dell Refunds Vista/Works With Two Emails 277
look@thealternative.ch writes "Although many people have asked for pre-installed Linux, and Dell seems to have listened, some still think that buying a naked PC won't be easy. But what about stripping it naked after you buy it? I managed to get Windows Vista (and a bit more) refunded from Dell Germany last week. The process was surprisingly simple: 1) After delivery, ask Dell Support for refund by email. 2) ??? 3) Refund!!! Read the full email conversation in the original German or my English translation. For the impatient reader: The refund is €77.54 for Windows Vista Home Basic plus Works 8.0 (that is 15% of the total amount I paid). The whole process took 2 emails, 2 more to say thank you, and less than 48 hours. The money is already in my account. Kudos to Dell Customer Care (esp. 'Veronika') for being efficient and customer-oriented!"
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Sounds good (Score:3, Insightful)
An amazing concept called... (Score:2, Insightful)
TFA forgets step zero (Score:3, Insightful)
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(Oh, and it was €77, so more like $100 or so)
Re:Great ! (Score:2, Insightful)
Someone has insecurity issues. The dude was joking.
Re:You must be mistaken... (Score:5, Insightful)
You mean slashdot.org.uk? Or slashdot.de? Funnily enough, it's not slashdot.us either...
Re:Automation (Score:3, Insightful)
All they have to do is decrease the discount they give dell on OEM copies of Windows to bring them back into line. They can give any number of reasons for doing this because the agreement would be confidential. This is already how they get Dell to "Recommend Windows".
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Simple solution: When writing in French or German, use a comma. When writing in English, use a dot. You wouldn't use German or French quotation marks when writing in English would you?
A Mac without Mac OSX? (Score:3, Insightful)
The only reason for buying a more expensive system like a Macintosh computer would to be to run Mac OSX on it. Otherwise you can buy PCs with the same hardware cheaper from other vendors sans an OS and install Linux or *BSD Unix whatever on it.
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If I use this naming convention in my files, they sort very easily. But if you do DDMMYY, then you get all the files for the 25th on the same day, which isn't chronological order.