Dells Best Coupon Ever

[Chris]

They have a coupon, just for today, for $500 off a laptop.

[incka]

Do they ship internationally?

[Chris]

I don't know.

[MarkB]

From www.dell.com:

"For customers of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia only"

[Emancipator]

geese now THAT is a coupon.

[Mike]

Woah, that certainly is a coupon. Shame they couldn't do it when I had some spare cash about.

[MarkB]

But they don't ship to the UK ;)

[Mike]

But I know a few people in the US, so next time I visit, I'd just take it back with me ;)

[incka]

I'm sure I could get Weeks or Gersitz to recieve it and ship it too much for not much...

[Chris]

Too late, they cancelled the coupon. It was more effective than they imagined and they could not handle the volume.

[Blue Cat Buxton]

If you were to sell a $1000 laptop, with the $500 coupon, would your commission be based on $1000 or the net income to Dell, ie $500?

[incka]

On your thing it would be $500, however the minimum price of these laptops is $1500 according to the email with the coupon in I got from dell.

[Blue Cat Buxton]

OK, I was using the $1k to keep the maths simple!

[moonshield]

darn... i saw this coupon too late... I must wait till the next good deal.

[Emancipator]

lol.. not even 500 off will get me to buy a dell :P I love my COMPAQ laptop.. best computer ive ever bought.. if your looking for a good laptop check out the Presario X1000 fully loaded. Great machine to work on.

[moonshield]

i probably will go with an IBM x40 or something. My dad has that and it is really thin and swift... I like IBM but Dell makes a decent laptop.. Now for a desktop I would not buy a prebuilt one. I would build myself.

[michael_gersitz]

Wow, to bad. I would have liked to look into it.

Chris, who issues these coupons? Are they directly from Dell? or is there a program you are in?

[incka]

Dell on Linkshare.

[michael_gersitz]

Linkshare, interesting article about them in last months Revenue Magazine. Once I get bigger I will start expanding to more networks. Maybe Linkshare.

[incka]

2 more quite large (but not as large) coupons coming tomorrow.

[moonshield]

is the arena competitive for coupon sites? Are coupons a profitable venture?

[incka]

Extremly competative. Just look at the PR for the top sites when you search for 'amazon coupons' and 'dell coupons'.

[michael_gersitz]

I think I saw a post where he said it was one of his top earners though... ;)

[incka]

Yes, Chirs has said that in profit terms it is about equal to his ecommerce site somewhere or other...

I think if you create a general coupon site you've got no chance, but if you do something extra...

I'm beginning to think Chris has more than one coupon site, because SavvyShopping is link exchaning with a site with the same coupons and the whois data has Whois by Proxy Inc protection on it... Perhaps it is just coinsidence though...

[Blue Cat Buxton]

-Nevermind-

[Chris]

Ya, I started a second one. The thing is for the last 6 months or so two of the top ranked sites each have 2 sites. One guy (xpcoupons xpdeals) doesn't even try to make them seem seperate. Google obviously doesn't care and I'm tired of being beat in the rankings.

[incka]

Was domain by proxy incase google looks at whois data?

[Chris]

Just in case.

[Chris]

$500 off an inspiron was nice, but they're having 40% off high end desktops tommorow..... I'm very tempted.

[Yoda]

What do they consider to be "high end," in this case?

[michael_gersitz]

Can you post some examples?

[Chris]

30% off $999 or more, 40% off $2499 or more.

Plus they are combinable with other site deals, and there will be new site deals tommorow.

Basically you can get the best consumer processor in the world (or close to it, the best Intel anyway), the best consumer graphics card in the world and all the bells and whistles and it'll be under $2k.

[moonshield]

does alienware have any coupons? I would like one on that overclocked crazy PC...

[Chris]

Alienware does not compete on a price model.

[Chris]

I'm getting a new desktop.

Pentium® 4 Processor 560 with HT Technology (3.60GHz, 800 FSB)
250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
256MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon™ X800 XT
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M)
Dual Drives: 16x DVD + FREE UPGRADE! 16x DVD+RW/+R w/ dbl layer write
Sound Blaster Audigy™2 (D) Card w/Dolby 5.1, and IEEE 1394 capability

$1499 + tax, shipped free.

:D

[incka]

I want one like that... I'm still running on a 128mb-ram machine...