Dell & Wal-Mart: One Small Step

re: Dell & Wal-Mart: One Small Step

William I. — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:49:18 GMT

To Kent and others who said that you will stop buying Dell because they have chosen to associate with Walmart... are you also considering to stop buying Kraft cheese, Ivory soap, Tide detergent at your local grocery store, or even stop ordering Coke or Pepsi at your local restaurant. In fact, probably the majority of the products you buy everyday (goceries, food, even misc electronics) are also sold at Walmart. The companies who make these products, like Dell, have also chosen to associate themselves with Walmart because a very large portion of the world's consumers buy at Walmart.

re: Dell & Wal-Mart: One Small Step

Nick — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:15:17 GMT

Purchased a Dell Inspiron 530 from Wal-Mart on February 12, 2008.I check the service tag on Dell.ca the warranty start date is October 2007.Customer service changed the warranty to my name, explained they can’t change the start date.So I am loosing 3.5 months of warranty.When you buy a car the warranty does not start when it comes of the factory floor.It starts when you buy the car.Hope Dell changes there warranty service to reflect the purchase date, not the date Wal-Mart receives the computer. Nick

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Fred — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:02:35 GMT

I have been a VAR with Dell now going on three years and I must say that my feelings were hurt when I learned that Dell had merged with WalMart. I sell Dell like crazy but it seems it is getting harder and harder to compete with giants. I recently learned that im now limited to what machines I can offer my customers! WHAT! This is the craziest thing I have heard. I know that the focus for a VAR is to sell business based machines to business but now they are going to far when they only allow me to sell my customers select machines and it is very limited to say the least. I feel that Dell needs to look at the whole picture and understand that a business likes to be different just like home end users and that they may want to look at a sunshine yellow notebook instead of a black notebook. This is my way of venting so thanks for reading!

One more thing that needs to be understood by Dell is that a WalMart employee is not trained in computers and often does not know the difference between a stick of ram and the monitor. Come on Dell!!!

re: Dell & Wal-Mart: One Small Step

leslie — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:12:42 GMT

where is your store in santa ana??????????

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Iceman — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:04:11 GMT

Well, I don't go to WalMart and I don't go to Target. Gateway went into those areas and we all can see how well that worked for them. Gateway also opened retail stores. The experience was great but they had to close. Why? Customers went for the cheap price over all else. America is selling her heritage for cheap labor. Dell is a business. For them it is a good move. Until we choose not to permit the use of cheap third world labor by US manufacturers it will remain a good move. The rest of the world is using our greed to weaken our infrastructure. We need import tariffs, law requiring employers to pay a structured wage to third world workers. Dell is doing what they need to do to survive. Americans are not forced to shop at WalMart. Noone drags them screaming through the doors. The question that a high end computer user must ask is this; how embarrasing is it to own a computer that is sold at WalMart? Probably a package deal. The three pound jar of CheeseWhiz and the five pound bag of chips on Smiley Special. We don't need to import much of anything, only concern with the bottom line by companies and the desire for cheap prices by consumers makes imports necessary. It is a matter of economic reality that any country that imports more than they export is on a downhill slope. Our natural wealth and resources have been the envy of the world. I am certain that same world is very happy to see the situation that we are creating for ourselves. So, how do you write Dell in Chinese? If we stopped off shore purchases, off shore support, off shore employment and brought everything home, our economic power would increase ten fold, we could then control the price of oil, end competition against foreign government subsidized industries. A level playing field once again.

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Jim — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:19:11 GMT

Really - what does it all mean in the end? I've been shopping for a desktop for some time. I gave Dell a shot - as a former customer. The 'deals' are not competitive. Low prices are accomplished by using old, low-level processors and small hard drives, way below the average of what similar priced units by the competitors have to offer.

So what good is a Wal-Mart when you're not ready to compete with the others??? Good luck Michael Dell!

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Paul — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:34:43 GMT

While I don't mind walmart myself, this has caused the owner of where I work, who dislikes Walmart immensely, to no longer use Dell, so any new IT needs will be met by another company, and it's not even the choice of myself, the IT admin!

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Emooze — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:27:32 GMT

This Sunday? My store has had them since a week ago. Just a bunch of Dells sitting everywhere, on the floor, in the back, etc. I thought it was odd, but not surprising...

re: Dell & Wal-Mart: One Small Step

Eric — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:24:32 GMT

It really bothers me to hear that Dell has chosen to sell its computers at Wal-Mart. I have recommended Dells to people for a long time now because they don't sell their PC's there. I also own several Dells myself. I feel that selling their PC's at Wal-Mart will make Dell known as just another major computer company who doesnt care about the quality of their products.

re: Dell & Wal-Mart: One Small Step

Steven Dowling Jr — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:35:49 GMT

To those who scoff at Dell's decision to sell at Wal-Mart - Get over it! The company and products will only benefit from this new revenue source! Dell will have more sales, research, development and profit which will enable them to come up with even better stuff. I know Wal-Mart isn't the best mental image in retail but they are the best and most selling retailer. To counter some of the bad image generated by selling at Wal-Mart I would suggest Dell open up to selling at Best Buy and even better - Frys Electronics! Any way you put it, this is going to better Dell and their customers in the long run.