
The secret $388 Computer was Toshiba 2Gig 120 g hard what was yours?
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Posted Nov 23, 2007 - 5:29 am

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Has dual core processor, and a lot of other stuff I can't see at the moment. We had 15. All rang up 598 regular price. It took till 5:15 to get a manager to come do a price over ride on EACH one of them.
There were 4 different models to chose from, actually. One was a Dell, one was an HP bundle leftover from back to school, and there were 2 different Toshibas. Not all stores had all models, so it just depended on what your store had in stock. We had a lot of the Dells and HP's but only a handful of the Toshibas.
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Posted Nov 23, 2007 - 11:29 am
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Posted Nov 23, 2007 - 2:32 pm
Well it's over with now. Only till 11am
Was the Secret Sale prices only until 11AM? I didn't see a time frame.
I just stopped in to our Walmart to check out the laptops knowing full well the $388 ones were long gone.
I asked if there were going to be any Secret Sale laptops tomorrow and I was told there were no laptop special prices today. I said, yes, there were $388 laptops today. Another employee looked thru the ad and said they didn't have any $388 laptops. I proceeded to tell them it was part of the Secret Sale. Meanwhile I noticed there was a Dell 1501 Inspiron behind the counter (where the cash registers are - it wasn't locked up like the laptops they had) and I asked about it. A third employee said it was $598, it is not the one on sale, and all of the sale ones are gone.
Is the $388 Dell a 1501 Inspiron? I would love to get that for $388. I don't know how I could prove to them it is the one on sale though. Of course there's always the chance they will tell me the Dell is behind the counter because it is being held for someone.
What do you think?
TIA
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Posted Nov 23, 2007 - 3:24 pm
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Posted Nov 23, 2007 - 3:46 pm
Was the Secret Sale prices only until 11AM? I didn't see a time frame.
I just stopped in to our Walmart to check out the laptops knowing full well the $388 ones were long gone.
I asked if there were going to be any Secret Sale laptops tomorrow and I was told there were no laptop special prices today. I said, yes, there were $388 laptops today. Another employee looked thru the ad and said they didn't have any $388 laptops. I proceeded to tell them it was part of the Secret Sale. Meanwhile I noticed there was a Dell 1501 Inspiron behind the counter (where the cash registers are - it wasn't locked up like the laptops they had) and I asked about it. A third employee said it was $598, it is not the one on sale, and all of the sale ones are gone.
Is the $388 Dell a 1501 Inspiron? I would love to get that for $388. I don't know how I could prove to them it is the one on sale though. Of course there's always the chance they will tell me the Dell is behind the counter because it is being held for someone.
What do you think?
TIA
I'd get back out there. See if you can print a copy of the sale from the website. That way you can show them the brand names.
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We stood in line for over an hour, than argued with them about the price being $388 but they wouldn't listen, so we just left. I wish I had printed the ad.
Amen to that, I wish I had printed the ad also! Live and learn I guess. My Walmart didn't know what I was talking about. I was so upset. I wrote corporate a letter, probably won't do any good but wanted them to know that I was one of the ones that defended them and chose their store first and could have gone to CC or BB....never again!
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Posted Nov 24, 2007 - 6:35 am
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Posted Nov 24, 2007 - 11:23 am
I went to my wal-mart last night, and they had about 25 Dell 1501's and about 75 Toshibas sitting on a cart, and was told the price was $598. I'm assuming those were the $398 laptops from earlier in the day. The Toshiba had 2 GB Ram and 120 GB HD, not bad at all, even for $598.
That is the one that was on the special secret deal because I got one for $388. My WM had 4 Dell 1501 and the rest were toshiba. I picked up the Dell. I was the first in line so I got to choose which one I wanted.

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Posted Nov 24, 2007 - 9:43 pm
The crap shouldn't be so secret from the stores that they do not have time to educate the employees. They dropped yet another ball this week!
Amen, brother! I work in home entertainment at my store and the only way I knew the items was by researching them myself through the company's Intranet.
BTW, was talking with my dept. manager this morning about the laptops. Here is the deal on the Dell laptops, as I understood it: We sell 3 different models. One of them is on recall and can't be sold even if we had them -- it was the one that was supposed to be on sale for $388; one is $598 (as advertised special); and there was also one for $798 or so (regular item).
Apparently, the deal was also valid on several more laptops than was advertised. Ie, we did Sony VAIO's as well at my store.
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Posted Nov 25, 2007 - 12:25 am
Amen, brother! I work in home entertainment at my store and the only way I knew the items was by researching them myself through the company's Intranet.
BTW, was talking with my dept. manager this morning about the laptops. Here is the deal on the Dell laptops, as I understood it: We sell 3 different models. One of them is on recall and can't be sold even if we had them -- it was the one that was supposed to be on sale for $388; one is $598 (as advertised special); and there was also one for $798 or so (regular item).
Apparently, the deal was also valid on several more laptops than was advertised. Ie, we did Sony VAIO's as well at my store.
Can you tell us the difference between the three different Dells? I got an inspiron 1501, I wouldnt think this would be the one that was recalled...
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Can you tell us the difference between the three different Dells? I got an inspiron 1501, I wouldnt think this would be the one that was recalled...
Let me get more information on that so I can confirm what I was told is correct.
If you were able to purchase one on Friday, either the recall was lifted or you bought one of the other models not affected. It had a sales restriction placed on it preventing the register from ringing it up.
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11-23-2007, 7:24 PM #2
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at our store we were having a problem selling the dell computer when we went to scan it at check out it would say do not sell. That usually comes up when something has been recalled but when we scanned it with the telezon it did not say anything about a recall. That is probably why they were still there they were not be able to be checked out. We then handkeyed it so the lady could buy hers today but it was highly recommended that she call Dell to make sure it was not recalled. You do have 14 days with receipt to take back computers. So really we have no idea what was going on with the Dell desktop. I think they were going to call home office.

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