STV Question for those who have received Dells in the past

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CollidgeGraduit

02-03-2005 12:42:46

Have you tried finding/tracking your order through Dell's website? Anyone have any success with that?

spiff999

02-03-2005 20:01:25

No idea, but mine did come while it was still STV on the Gratis page.

rampy2

04-03-2005 10:35:16

[quote9d127d981c="CollidgeGraduit"]Have you tried finding/tracking your order through Dell's website? Anyone have any success with that?[/quote9d127d981c]

I'm currently STV, waiting on product.

I've been checking Dell's order status page[=http//support.dell.com/support/order/status.aspx]Dell's order status page and entering customer no. 30683635 and zip code 20001.

But there hasn't been anything ordered since feb 17th. I just got an email the other day regarding the whole "choose between the dimension 3000 and 4700" mixup. So even though it said "sent to vendor" on feb 28th it must not really have been sent to vendor if they are asking 3 days later to confirm which dimension desktop I would like to order. liShrugli

I guess what I'd like to know is if anyone has received their freedesktop from gratis very recently and what the gratis customer #/info on the invoice was, and if there order shows up in the order list on the Dell status page... (know what I mean, vern?)

lishrugli

rampy

rampy2

08-03-2005 07:04:40

Enter in the info I mentioned before and there's a bunch of new entries (although they are on "on hold status" whatever that means in Dell speak...
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Order Number Order Date Estimated Ship Date Status Details
2612xxxx 03/08/2005 03/17/2005 Order on Hold
2612sss 03/08/2005 03/17/2005 Order on Hold
2612xxx 03/08/2005 03/17/2005 Order on Hold
261xxxx 03/08/2005 03/17/2005 Order on Hold
261xxxx 03/08/2005 03/17/2005 Order on Hold
2612xxxxx 03/08/2005 03/17/2005 Order on Hold
2612xxxx 03/08/2005 03/17/2005 Order on Hold
####

EDIT -->They all look like they are dimension 3000's though... which is ok for me, as that's what I was looking for... but perhaps 4700's will be added later or ???

EDIT2--> I spoke too soon... they are adding a ton of them, be sure to sort by order date (click it twice to get descening/latest) some of the numbers are so fresh to the system they don't even have information, but I saw at least one 4700, so that's good new...

lishrugli at least I hopefully have something to watch and track now =P

rampy

CollidgeGraduit

08-03-2005 07:09:16

Interesting... I'll have to see if any of those are mine!

CollidgeGraduit

08-03-2005 07:28:12

I found them, but there's no way to see who each order is going to - not even a zip code (

rampy2

08-03-2005 08:01:13

I think we'll have to wait till they ship/tracking numbers and figure it out from there... At least if you think your order is in there, you can think/hope you'll get your desktop between march 24th - 27th if dell's delivery estimates are to be trusted =)

lishrugli

rampy

CollidgeGraduit

08-03-2005 08:03:16

From my experience, Dell's delivery estimates are WAY over-exaggerated. Judging from the older orders there, it should ship 2-4 days after the order is placed. I should get my Dell 5 business days after that D

rampy2

09-03-2005 10:37:28

looks like you are right... they are currently in the "production" phase getting built today... maybe they'll ship tomorrow (guarded optimism)

rampy

RealtorKen

09-03-2005 12:50:09

It says March 17 shipping date

rampy2

09-03-2005 13:01:57

[quote8020d5fba5="RealtorKen"]It says March 17 shipping date[/quote8020d5fba5]

see CG's posts above... that's the ESTIMATED shipping date. in his experience (and if you look at past orders) they seem to ship much faster than they predict... i.e. they pad their estimates =)

Like scotty on Star Trek...

rampy

rampy2

10-03-2005 05:28:40

well it appears mine has shipped! Well there's a dimension 3000 going to my dad's town, it can't be a coincidence =P

Looks like not all of them shipped as of 830ET but a bunch did... College Graduit was right on!

The only downside to getting a free desktop PC for your dad, is the phone calls figuring out how to use it... "wait a minute, this doesn't look like windows 98!?" "where's solitaire?!"

lol

rampy

Tholek

10-03-2005 05:38:45

Sorry to say, Solitaire is still in XP. ;)

CollidgeGraduit

13-03-2005 16:20:23

Yup, mine shipped! They put the wrong address on it, but UPS was super-helpful. It's going to be corrected when it gets to my city, and will be delivered TOMORROW! D

rampy2

14-03-2005 07:04:33

congrats!

Just to follow up... my dad received his dimension 3000 and monitor on the 11th (it was built and shipped on the 9th) of march... so that's pretty fast turnaround and shipping on Dells/UPS part...

Anyways just thought i'd share... =)

rampy