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A/V A dumb question about Dell monitors?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by K, 23 Oct 2006.

  1. toric334

    toric334 What's a Dremel?

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    £700 on a monitor, and they can't provide a 50P Kettle lead..... :confused:
     
  2. alastor

    alastor Minimodder

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    Cost cutting I guess. If they sell 100,000 of them and save 50p on each by not providing them, that's quite a sizeable chunk of money. Although they should provide everything you need to get it going out of the box :grr:
     
  3. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    Yeah but they'll end up losing that £50k if even 10% of their customers call up and ask for one, since they'll have to pay for shipping a second time around.
     
  4. WhiskeyAlpha

    WhiskeyAlpha What's a Dremel?

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    When I got my 2007WFP they shipped a power cable in a separate box. I didn't have to specially request one. :confused:

    Maybe the message is getting through.

    Shipping such an expensive piece of kit without the cable that allows you to turn the bloody thing on is outrageous! Quite frankly, I would have done my bo***cks if I hadn't got one!
     
  5. Callum

    Callum What's a Dremel?

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    Their printers (at least for me, with 2 AIO 810s) don't come with USB cables either. My Dell 19" came with one, but it was separate, and I can't remember, but I think I had to check a box for it when I ordered.
     
  6. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    That's SOP with printers though... I don't think any USB printer I've ever bought, or known that someone else bought (my mom has bad luck with printers, yet always ends up with another HP somehow :wallbash: ), has ever come with the USB cable. Though both of my Dell monitors included one, as well as the power, VGA, and DVI cables.
     
  7. Sp!

    Sp! Minimodder

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    from my expericence when you buy a dell PC and monitor the power cable for the monitor is in the PC box, when you buy a monitor by it's self the power cables usually in the box, I would guess that they've either shipped the monitors from the wrong pile in the warehouse or if you bought then from a reseller they were orriginally part of a PC bundle.
     
  8. MrWillyWonka

    MrWillyWonka Chocolate computers galore!

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    Well my 2005fpw came with a dvi cable, a vga cable, usb cable, UK power lead and US/European (can't remember which) power lead so by the looks of it I had the full bundle.

    Looks like its random whether you get them or not but I think Sp! has hit a nail on the head here.
     
  9. orb

    orb satisfying.

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    My 2407 came with a power cable o_O
     

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