Author: Sean Gibbins Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Sheffield man gets MS tax refund from Dell
Sean Gibbins wrote: > 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.
