James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>>
>> I suspect that the fact is most people don't actually *ask* for their
>> money back either because they assume they can't or
>> just can't be bothered. I fall into the former category (with a bit of
>> the latter thrown in). I have two big name
>> computers that I bought in the last year. Each came with a Windows XP
>> licence, neither of them were ever even booted, so I
>> never had the opportunity to accept or reject the licence. The first
>> OS each booted was Linux.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Al.
>>
> I would say that is is well worth asking for a refund.
> Look at this site:
> http://www.sterlingxs.co.uk/scpages/newlaptops.html
> It lists exactly the same laptop, with and without XP.
> There is a £40 difference.
> Well worth asking for.
Dell flat refused to do that for me a few years back when I bought an
i8200 with XP bundled. They were prepared to lose the sale on a £2.5k
machine rather than upset their supplier, and went as far as to state
that their contract with MS forbade them to sell a machine with an OS on
it. I believe they got around this a couple of years later by putting a
free implementation of DOS on there. Seems that times have changed now.
Sean
