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    Can I Use School and Business Discounts together?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by ccoleman88, Mar 31, 2008.

  1. ccoleman88

    ccoleman88 Notebook Guru

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    Im looking at dells website trying to figure out if i can combine my dell business acount and a school discount from delluniversity.com does anyonw know?
     
  2. asmallchild

    asmallchild Notebook Consultant

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    I think it does. My father used to own a small business and frequently purchased computers in that division.

    He went to the delluniversity site to purchase a laptop for me and I believe used the same billing profile.

    The educational discount stacked on top of the $600 Dell is already taking off the M1530 which made for a spectacular amount of savings.

    Fully loaded Blu-ray laptop for under $2K (gotta love the 3 yr at home service plan bundled there as well)

    And to think I was about to fork over the same amount for Apple's bottom of the line Macbook Pro
     
  3. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Nope...cannot do it as you are trying to combine discounts from two Dell divisions.

    For things like % off and $$$ off, Dell tends to mirror the promotions on all their "sites," which is what asmallchild is referencing. But something like a 15% off Latitude coupon (in general, any coupon that needs a code) for Small Business will not stack with the 3-12% student discounts available.
     
  4. booji

    booji Notebook Deity

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    Greg is correct. Only the standard promotions will stack with EPP discounts. So if Dell Home is running a special on XPS notebooks, i.e. 799 off specially configured m1330. Then through your university you can get the same notebook for 799 off + you EPP discount (anywhere from 4 to 12%)
     
  5. Sparky 1720

    Sparky 1720 Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah you get you are not shopping in the market or some such when you apply cross discounts. I tried my company discount and then a coupon code and got that.