Convoluted Dell deal of the day XPS8500 is smoking hot! Ivy bridge i7-3770 Ultra Sharp 24" $999 plus $300 in gift cards

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Once you get all your gift cards and combine the three $300 ones into one $900 online, you need to order the computer over the phone because it's the only way to use three payment methods.

CPU alone is $319 on Newegg

The XPS8500 for $999 is smoking hot. Comes with $300 monitor and $150 gift card. You should be able to do the $300/free $50 gift card thing three times, but you can't use more than one $50 promo gift card on the order itself unless you live in a state with no tax on Dell, then you can use 2 $50 promo cards on the order ($900 in gift cards plus $100 in promo gift cards covers the whole order with three payment methods).

Link to $50 for each $300 gift card deal

Three forms of payment max on a phone order, so won't work on the double $50 promo gift card unless you live in a state with no tax. You can combine the regular gift cards into one but not the promo. So best you could do is 3 X $300 Gift cards, use $900 combined, plus $50 gift card plus another $50 gift card (if you have no tax) or CC and one $50 gift card if you do have tax. Leaves one $50 promo gift card or two depending on tax. You could still sell the one or two gift card promos on eBay for something or use them on anothe order. Plus you get a $150 promo gift card that comes later.

It's smoking hot I think because you get a 24 inch ultra sharp, video card, hot CPU, etc. The CPU alone is $319 at New Egg. The Monitor goes for $300 on a good day.

You're getting the loaded computer plus 24 inch Ultra Sharp for $700 if you count the gift cards. You could not buy the parts for that.

You end up with the system plus monitor for $900 plus $200 in gift cards if you live in a state with no tax on Dell or $950 plus tax and $250 in gift cards if you live in a state with tax on Dell.

You won't get CashBack because you need to order this on the phone to be able to use three payment methods.

You also take the chance that your 3 X $300 gift cards won't come by the end of today if you order them now. I've received my gift cards in 20 minutes in the past but that's not guaranteed. And you need to combine your 3 X $300 cards online into one $900 card. That's why I said it was convoluted. But it's very hot, the parts would cost more than this even ignoring the operating system.

Nice post, got it in just before me, here is the info I wrote, the gift cards sweeten it.

Good Deal for a new desktop. Inculdes wifi, bluetooth 4, media reader, 1 yr warranty. I am going to add a samsung 256GB ssd and a gtx 670 with a custom quiet cooler. In the end I get a great, quiet system, 1 yr warranty.

Also comes with 3 piece speaker system and 24" ultrasharp. I am going to sell both since I have a 30" Dell and speakers already. End price for this system deal will be around $700 after selling on eBay. Oh and there is also the $150 Dell egift card to make it hot

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/days-of-dell?c=...

XPS 8500 XPS 8500
Chassis XPS 8500, Black Chassis w/19:1 media card reader
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English
PROCESSORS 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3770 processor 3.40 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 3.90 GHz
MONITOR Dell UltraSharp™ U2412M 24" Monitor with Adj Stand, Widescreen, VGA/ DVI/ DP
MEMORY 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz - 2 DIMMs
HARD DRIVE 1TB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive 6.0 Gb/s
VIDEO CARD AMD Radeon™ HD 7570 1GB GDDR5
OPTICAL DRIVE 16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW), write to CD/DVD
WIRELESS Dell Wireless 1703 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.0+LE
SOUND CARD Integrated 7.1 with WAVE MAXXAudio 4
USB 3.0 Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet
Dell Datasafe DataSafe 2.0 Online Backup 2GB for 1 year
Adobe Reader Adobe® Acrobat® X Reader Multi-Language
Ship Material Shipping Material, Direct
Wireless Driver Dell SRV Software 1703
Documentation English/French Documentation
Additional Software Additional Software
Optical SW No PDVD
Power Cord US Power Cord
Miscellaneous $150 Dell Promo e-Gift Card – Arrives in 10-20 days via email, carries a 90 Day Exp. Terms at Dell.c

Not hot for a desktop, it's SMOKING HOT!!! That's right, SMOKING HOT!!! It's also YMMV because you have to think past typing.

wow there is a lot of info in that post also the link is dead for me

polishdreamer said:   Not hot for a desktop, it's SMOKING HOT!!! That's right, SMOKING HOT!!! It's also YMMV because you have to think past typing.

Sorry if I got excited, it reminded me a little of the old days at Dell when it was so hot it was close to free. It's not as good as that, but still smoking hot, LOL I once paid $270 for a system when the CPU OEM cost $630 at the time.

Also, it's a high end Ivy bridge, didn't expect a hot deal on one of those this fast.

Wait a second guys.. don't pull the trigger on GC right now. I've dealt with Dell e-gift cards in the past and they DO NOT allow more than on GC on an order. Keeping that in mind, I decided to cross check the T&C's and here's what the page says

"Offer ends 5/22. Terms and conditions apply. Delivery of eGift Card may take up to 24 hours. Promo eGift Card cannot be consolidated with any other card. Promo eGift Card must be used within 90 days of receipt. Though it says "Promo eGift Card" but I know that the Dell e-gift cards bought from AMEX Rewards clerly say on their TCs that they cannot be combined or stacked up for one single order. So same me the case for the $300 GCs as well. Just thought to mention this as a word of caution.

So if somebody already has $300 GCs by now, maybe they can confirm if all the GCs could be applied on a single order. If the GCs can be stacked up, then this is a smoking hot deal.

Edit - A'right.. Just cross checked a few things on website to make sure $300 GCs can be consolidated. Here's the link that says all about it . http://buygconline.com/consolidation/index.aspx . So guess its only the prmo eGCs that cannot be consolidated.

Edit - Just confirmed from Dell sales rep. and she said that he GCs can be combined together. So guys.. go for it. Hurry before they catch it.

FYI, the i7-3770 processor is available from MicroCenter for $259.99 (In-store only, so only valid if you have a B&M nearby)
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0388576

Anyone know if the power supply on this desktop and the cooling can handle a better gaming video card?

sudhs said:   Wait a second guys.. don't pull the trigger on GC right now. I've dealt with Dell e-gift cards in the past and they DO NOT allow more than on GC on an order. Keeping that in mind, I decided to cross check the T&C's and here's what the page says

"Offer ends 5/22. Terms and conditions apply. Delivery of eGift Card may take up to 24 hours. Promo eGift Card cannot be consolidated with any other card. Promo eGift Card must be used within 90 days of receipt. Though it says "Promo eGift Card" but I know that the Dell e-gift cards bought from AMEX Rewards clerly say on their TCs that they cannot be combined or stacked up for one single order. So same me the case for the $300 GCs as well. Just thought to mention this as a word of caution.

So if somebody already has $300 GCs by now, maybe they can confirm if all the GCs could be applied on a single order. If the GCs can be stacked up, then this is a smoking hot deal.

Edit - A'right.. Just cross checked a few things on website to make sure $300 GCs can be consolidated. Here's the link that says all about it . http://buygconline.com/consolidation/index.aspx . So guess its only the prmo eGCs that cannot be consolidated.

Edit - Just confirmed from Dell sales rep. and she said that he GCs can be combined together. So guys.. go for it. Hurry before they catch it.

It said that at Christmas time too and I and hundreds of other people called in and used a $400 gift card with the promo $75 gift card on the same order. YMMV, but people have been doing this combining of gift cards for months. You are only using two gift cards, a $900 and a $50 (after combining your three $300s into one $900) unless you live in a state with no tax on Dell. Then you will use three.

My head is spinning. Good luck to all.

clearanceman said:   The cheapest I have seen that monitor on sale is $300.

Dell has the monitor for $299 right now

SUB said:   clearanceman said:   The cheapest I have seen that monitor on sale is $300.

Dell has the monitor for $299 right now

OK, the cheapest I have seen the monitor is $299. Happy?

I can't buy more than $500 in gift cards. What the?

video card enough for playing Diablo 3??

littlestone said:   video card enough for playing Diablo 3??

not IMO.

After reading this Im like CONFUSED HERE

would love the computer but how do I get the gift cards and isnt there a time limit to use them like 90 or 60 days?

Do I have to buy one (1) 300.00 gift card at a time? it wont allow me to buy 2 for 300 in one transaction?

Ok so correct me if Im worng, my order for the XPS8500 deal comes to a

total of: $1060.50
I buy 3 gift cards individually for:
$400.00
$300.00
$360.50
and I should get 3 -$50.00 cards back +Plus the 150 card?

Or can I use any of those $50.00 cards right now?

anndesikis said:   Ok so correct me if Im worng, my order for the XPS8500 deal comes to a

total of: $1060.50
I buy 3 gift cards individually for:
$400.00
$300.00
$360.50
and I should get 3 -$50.00 cards back +Plus the 150 card?

Or can I use any of those $50.00 cards right now?

Well, assuming you receive your gift cards before the end of the day, it's getting late, yes, you can use one $50 gift card now and the others you'll have to do something with.

However, you need to reduce one of the gift cards by at least $50 or your won't be able to use one of them on this order. Also you have to combine your three gift cards into one. And I would just buy three $300 gift cards, leaving as much as possible for CC rewards.

NOTPC said:   hang on,,i will get back to you with the detailsof this deal as soon as i call my friend at the NASA space propusion labratory in houston,,he is a rocket scientist and may be able to figure this out for us,,be back soon....

Wow. 7th grade algebra is much more complicated than this deal.

sudhs said:   Guys.. second thoughts about this

i7 CPU + monitor = $999 + tax $60 = $1065. Monitor is sold for $299 in most deals. I've been following the price of this monitor and for the last 2 weeks it has been @ $299. Considering that OR if you are able to sell it on eBay for $249-$300 (shipping incl.) you get $1065-$300=$765-$135($150 ecard sold on eBay) = $630 - $120 ($50 ecards sold on eBay may fetch $40 each) = $510 . So basically the CPU(Motherboard+8gb+videocard+PSU)+KB+Mouse = $510. With CPU = $270 @ Microcenter, everything else except for CPU = $240. Now these manufacturers don't put anything top of line. Mostly Dell machines have PSUs <= 500W (ranging approx $60), memory 8GB in 4 DIMMS (approx $50), Motherboard (approx $80.. these again are average type mostly overclock disabled) and finally the videocard i.e AMD Radeon™ HD 7570 1GB GDDR5 (for approx $70) which makes a total of $260, about $20 more than what was left in the deal as stated above. The one thing we did not include is the case, which though very classy, isn't much of use when it comes to stacking drives for RAIDs. So if you really see, all you're getting is a good processor with all other mediocre/average components + all that hassle of waiting for GCs, selling them on eBay, and other monkeying around. Is it worth all that ?

You've left out optical drive and hard drive. Possibly another $150 worth of components.
While this is a good deal, I have no use for such high-end computer. Still green for OP.

Just ordered the 3 $300 gift cards. 2 came within minutes. The third was delayed. Called the tech support number even though it says they close at 8pm edt. They answered and were still open at 9pm. They expedited the order and I received it within seconds. Off to buy the system!

Follow up: Well - I'm up a creek without a paddle. You can use a maximum of 3 forms of payment - and each gift card counts as one. Apparently to use the three $300 gift cards together, you have to consolidate them into one. Unfortunately the department to do that is closed until Monday. They can't lock in the offer... so now I've got $900 worth of gift cards + the 3 additional $50 gift cards and can't buy the item.

Final Update: Success! Checked SD and found that there is a Dell url where you can consolidate the gift cards online. Click here Used one of the $50 off codes found there too and ended up getting the system for $949.99. Applied one of the promotional $50 Gift Cards - so final price was $899.99. Have 2 $50 gift cards left and a $150 one coming.

finally just got my $150 GC