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Calum:
this is fine in theory, and so on, but once you give them your credit card details and they charge you for 1x laptop and 1x shitty operating system, then it's you who is being fucked around trying to get your money back. By even booting the machine into windows you are agreeing to the EULA. And to know this, you must boot into windows so you can read the EULA, am i right?
so do explain implicitly to them on the phone that fobbing you off with windows will do nobody any good, but DO NOT give them a chance to charge you for m$windows, that's my advice.
pkd_lives:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
this is fine in theory, and so on, but once you give them your credit card details and they charge you for 1x laptop and 1x shitty operating system, then it's you who is being fucked around trying to get your money back. By even booting the machine into windows you are agreeing to the EULA. And to know this, you must boot into windows so you can read the EULA, am i right?
so do explain implicitly to them on the phone that fobbing you off with windows will do nobody any good, but DO NOT give them a chance to charge you for m$windows, that's my advice.
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Ding - you squared that nail right up...and I'm blowed if you did not go and hit it smack straight where it needed to go.
My G/F me, told me I'm just doing this for the Drama, and a principle, and I said damn right I am.
Void, I never gave you shit, I actually thought you might have built a laptop - well never said I was the brightest lamp.
Muffin - Thanks for the Links. Trouble is two fold. I was burnt last time when the Manufacturer went Belly up a month after I brought the machine. Left me high and dry with no official copies of the software I had installed. I lost my warranty, which would have been useful for my MOBO went 11 months in. And I don't have a CC, I hate them, cash/cheque and out the door is my prefered method, that's why I'm very careful, but thanks for the BBB link, I may get a charge card though.
I want to know more about the freedos thing. Is it a M$ operating system, and is it free? I don't care if it will just bring up a shell, and does not support any of the hardware, when I get it it's getting RH, or somesuch.
[ October 09, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]
Edit : Arrgghhh. FreeDOS is not M$ so I don't think I can ask for this. Anyone know different?
[ October 09, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]
Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
You would know if you are being fucked over the phone before you give them the credit card because they have to quote the price to you so that there is an agreement of sorts.
So you will know whether you are getting charged for the hardware and the "shitty operating system".
pkd_lives:
When I called Dell I tried to open up a negotiation dialogue. I don't want M$, so give me one with no M$, or with a free distribution OS.
They did not bite. But I am wondering maybe I can get Dos 1.0, maybe for a $1. If that works then fine. But somehow I don't think they will.
You see it is not only the OS, these comps come with specific software. Such as Norton - oh yeah that I need. And I don't need any of it. So to my mind of thinking a non-OS computer should be $300 USD cheaper. Does anyone work for a computer reseller, and can they offer pointers here.
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by pkd:
Void, I never gave you shit, I actually thought you might have built a laptop - well never said I was the brightest lamp.
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I should have put a smiley at the end of my message because I was smiling when I wrote it. I was dumb for forgetting the machine in question was a laptop. Still smiling..
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