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Dell Customer Gets Windows Refund
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)."
47 Pounds??? Those are heavy bits!
Problem is, you don't know what the refund amounts to before you press 'NO' at the EULA agree prompt. For $20, I'd like a nice Windows XP copy. For $50, I might not. It depends. But there's no way of knowing!
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Hey, speak for yourself. I'm a coder by day, carnie by night. But I much prefer biting the heads off of rabid bats.
-b.
At least he used "geeks" ... I probably would have went with "elitist jackasses like you."
So true. This site is for NERDS, not geeks. News for Nerds, stuff that matters
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/. fixed it for you
I thought the copy of Windows XP was the tax?
First Novell partners with M$ and now Dell is actually refunding money? I'm pulling out the wool underwear, hell hath frozen.
> Let's face it - time is the one thing you can never get back.
This is exactly the kind of defeatist attitude that's stifling important time machine research in this country. Why, it's getting so that garage inventors can hardly afford a Delorean at all, much less buy the necessary conversion parts.
there is no need to sign your posts. this isn't usenet. your username is right there above your post. stop it.
more like $1.85
my password really is 'stinkypants'
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You've posted the 1 millionth senseless, useless bash of the US on Slashdot! You win an undeserved sense of smug self-satisfaction!
Duh, you rely on the inherent morality of humanity of course!
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