PC World punts Windows 7 £100 trade-in promotion DSGi is betting big on Windows 7 sales with a special promotion clearly designed to convince more customers to visit the firm’s not exactly bustling PC World stores. From tomorrow PC World will be offering up to £100 off to anyone who trades in an old, working laptop for a Windows 7 machine. The High Street retailer’s …
Popped into my local branch the other day to shelter from the rain. What I saw was significantly reduced amount of shelving, and large areas of bare floor. Plentiful bargain offers, in some cases only a little more expensive than reputable traders on the interwebs. I asked the cashier when the store was due to close. She couldn't tell me, having just started that morning!
1 compaq 3/25 (386 25MHz)
2 Dell LM166 (Pentium 166 MMX)
1 IBM Thinkpad 760XD (P166 MMX too IIRC)
I don't think these are the ones they're hoping to get, but I have them and they all work great. (running anything from DOS to Win 98)
I'm thinking I might get a quarter of the discount with all three (free recycling of the 2 Dells and the Compaq and the discount for the Thinkpad would be my guess since the battery actually still works in that one). Of course I'd have to jump across the pond to take them up on the deal and I don't think I'll do that.
Mines the one with the old school 80's Atari logo on the back
I was away from school the day they did economics but let me get this straight; Microsoft has release a new operating system, much like it's other operating systems that pretty much does what it's other operating systems do? And people are **actually** going out and buying it? One born every minute.....
Just checked the website...
"Up to £100 off, one transaction per customer. The valuation will depend on the laptops age specification and condition..."
Personally.. Cancom (Apple reseller) seem to be doing a "Trade in your machine and you'll get £100 off certain machines" (not limited to trading in laptops only..) OSX anyone?!?
P.S. I'm not an apple fanboi or Windows Fanboi.. my Linux machine does me just fine :-)
And the point of your post is?
I'm not selling my laptop, it's worth more than a £100 and I'd have Linux installed, so this offer is not for me.
Sooooo
You can get £2000 of a new Nissan when you trade in your old car. My car is not old enough, worth more than £2000 and I don't want a Nissan.
Just about as useless a post.
And people why Linuxtards get a bad name....
My local PCWorld seemed very full when I went there a week or so ago ... though that's mainly because as the other DSGi brand "Currys" is upgrading its store on the other side of the car park then a significant portion of PCWorld is currently full of fridges and washing machines!
Here are the details
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The deal, announced at an embargoed briefing in London, was also published on DSGi's site. DSGi is offering users up to £100 if they bring an old laptop to the shop, although the actual figure will depend on the quality and viability of the laptop.
Laptops will have to be capable of being switched on, although they don't necessarily have to be fully operational said Jeremy Fennell, Category Director for PC World. They'll also be graded for physical quality to create a second-hand value, of up to £100.
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... so that old laptop that you stopped using 5 years ago isn't going to get £100
The conditions are "The store will value your laptop according to its age, condition and specification." and it also says "please speak to member of our staff for more details."
i.e. 1 laptop is not £100 and they aren't giving you any idea before you get there!
I've got an old (1999) laptop I still use for mail and web (Ubuntu), and it works fine, just a little slow.. I was wondering if I could use that to trade up to a newer laptop with the £100 off, then not accept the EULA, obtaining a refund for the Win 7 that I don't want on it anyway, getting another £50 off.. Not a bad discount really..
With online retailers pummelling them that way and Best Buy hitting these shores next year, the clock is bound to be ticking on PC World. They should have scaled back their bricks and mortar operation and improved their online operation ages ago. Instead they are on the downward spiral.
Ironically, it was Windows Vista that gave them a kicking in '06.....
The deal is 'up to £100' for a laptop so I thought I'd test it out. I had no intention og getting rid of my main laptop but I figured I'd get it valued.
My Toshiba P3 something laptop with 256 MB Ram was valued at £25 OK Not bad.
My current selling Lenovo Thinkpad with Dual core processor, 2GB ram and all the usual extras that cost me over £2k 6 months ago was valued at £75..
I have no idea what you need to get the £100 off.
I sold a Dell Latitude C610 (~1GHz, 256MB RAM, 10GB HDD, Windows XP, perfect working order if a little slow) to a guy for £20 who was intending to trade it in for £100 off a new machine. He'd heard about this offer in store, but the "up to" bit wasn't made clear to him. In the end, they offered him £10 for the Dell. Ouch.
So yes, don't get your hopes up.
Where are you looking? Ebuyer and Amazon (just to pick the first two I looked at) will sell you the full version of Home Premium for ~£85 and the upgrade version for ~£65.
I think the official MS prices are £150 and £80 (give or take some pennies), I expect that it's only them and PC World that are sticking to those prices.
In fact, I just popped along to the PC World website and they're offering the upgrade for £60 and the full for £100.
Is this a version confusion problem?
Vale Voyager, 486 100MHz, 640k Ram. It does start up. C>_
Wouldn't touch it, they said they gave no value to anything earlier than Pentium 2, and they insisted on knowing which version of Windows was installed (our 3.1 was removed a while ago).
Chiswell St branch in the City of London. Not very helpful otherwise so a potential sale lost.
Also they will not apply any part ex to netbooks, even if upgraded to Win7.
Another SME IT manager they've told to p*** off then.
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