Getting A Laptop With The Low U.S. Dollar

Posted by timothy on Monday March 22, 2004 @08:48AM from the used-to-be-volvos-in-sweden-this-way dept.

An anonymous reader submits "I am heading to the U.S. pretty soon and am keen to take advantage of the low US$ to buy a laptop. The differences in prices are astounding - on dell.com (US) you pay $2049 for a Precision M60 - in the UK this costs 1620.33UKP, or $2999. That is a fair difference! It makes it cheaper for me to fly to the US to buy it and carry it home than it is for me to buy it in the UK. Now, that said, it isn't particularly easy to find a place to buy a laptop from, since most of the places don't ship to the UK (or it takes weeks) and it is difficult to get stuff delivered to your hotel ... any suggestions of how I can get a good laptop in the New York area when I am only there for 4 days?"

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Re:Getting it past customs... by nstrugnell · 2004-03-22 09:26 · Score: 5, Insightful

Or you could just declare it, still make a saving, and sleep soundly in the knowledge that you're not a dishonest, tight-arsed little toerag.
Re:Easy answer by JoeZeppy · 2004-03-22 10:02 · Score: 5, Insightful

If you take it out of the box and put it in a laptop bag, install some software on it, browse a few porn sites, finger the whole thing up with potato chip grease for a few days and hang a luggage tag off it, how are they going to know where/when you bought it?
Seriously, I'm not trolling here. How could they tell by a cursory examination whether you had this with you when you left home?