Good things do happen sometimes. Dell really did the right thing.
Last night at 7 pm the Dell rep left a voice mail on my work number. I called back this morning, some phone tag and spoke with the rep today.
The rep was really helpful and professional. In order to make it up to the customer (that’s me) they are offering me one of two options:
- A Dell $200 gift card which will arrive 4 to 6 weeks after my workstation arrives.
- An upgrade from my system’s Pentium D 960 to a Core 2 Duo E6700 with the understanding that the date will get pushed out into October.
I went for option number 2. My new ship date is October 17th.
The video card I ordered originally is not available so we swapped out the 1GB NVIDIA 7950 GX2 with a pair of SLI’ed 512MB 7900 cards. The old card was that in a single slot, so no real sacrifice there and performance ought to be about the same.
I received an e-mail from the rep with the new parts list. Pricing out the exact same system online is way more expensive than what I am paying. My discount comes out ~19% if I ordered the same system today.
That’s not bad and I can wait. If I get my system on or before October 17th I will be a really happy Dell customer.
