Mention "Mac Pro" to get a Discount: Dell Desperate?

I got a very friendly salesperson on the line and I happened to mention that I was choosing between a Mac Pro and a Dell. She was eager to help me, and within an hour she had emailed me an offer. As Dell forces you to get a Quadro graphics card for their high-end workstations, the prices didn't exactly match up, making a price comparison difficult.
When she later called me to try to finish the deal, I was reluctant since I thought the price was to high. The salesrep then told me she had already knocked off over $1.000 from the list price, since the standard prices were "ridiculous." When I still turned down her offer, she perplexed me by saying:
Well Jonas, how much do you want to pay? Give me an offer for the machine!
So after knocking off over 20% from the list price, she still had more to give? I'm not sure if Dell is finding the Apple competition feirce, or if they are coming close to ending a fiscal period, but only two weeks earlier I managed to get over 25% discount on two lovely 24-inch monitors by calling them and asking for a lower price instead of accepting their Internet price.
- Jonas
P.S. Sorry about the missing Flash-to-broadcast interview, I've been crazy-busy.
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4 Comments:
Well, Jonas. Follow me and by an MacPro. I got mine yesterday. It rocks!!! Looks fine to.
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Anonymous, at Friday, September 29, 2006
Nice, but I think I'll wait for the Kentsfield 8-CPU version
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Jonas Hummelstrand, at Friday, September 29, 2006
why would DELL be desperate, not that I am huge fan of their product, but Apple accounts for such an unimportant market share in the grand scheme of things? They're the Wal Mart of computers. Not going anywhere. The new 8-core Mac-Pros are hardware locked to Leopard, which pisses me off personally.
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Anonymous, at Saturday, January 26, 2008
You tell me, but a Mac Pro is actually cheaper than a similarly configured Precision 690. Also, Apple is reportedly coming close to a 7% market share, so they're not so small anymore.
By
Jonas Hummelstrand, at Saturday, January 26, 2008
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