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Dell Customer Gets Windows Refund

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the show-us-the-check-dave dept.

scottv67 writes "Dell today gave freelance programmer and sysadmin Dave Mitchell, of Sheffield, UK, a refund of 47 pounds ($89) for the unused copy of Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2 bundled with his new Dell Inspiron 640m laptop, Mitchell says. Dell also refunded the tax, for a total of £55.23 ($105)."

2 of 372 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Return on Investment? by Dare+nMc · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Then why don't you use the time when you wouldn't otherwise be getting paid to get the $100 back?

    read up.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
    in micro-economics your free time should be considerided equally as valuable as your work time. otherwise you would take on more hours, or more jobs until the value of your free time=value of your work time. granted in the US we have as a society setup the 40 hours work week instead of each individual reaching their own balance.

    So just because you have no life, and theirfore your free time isn't worth anything, doesn't mean that applies to the rest of us.
  2. Re:Return on Investment? by Kazzahdrane · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This may be trolling, but your comments disgust and worry me.

    Guns are evil things, and the attitude that carrying a gun makes you safer means your part of the world is in a sorry state. Keeping yourself is one thing, but there are less lethal ways to do it.