Currently 950 is the max, but rumour has it the GTX 1060 will be 75w, released this autumn and comparable performance to the 970.

or add it as an additional drive, install Windows10 and run a dual-boot.

I just say disconnect the original drive so you don't accidentally install overtop Win7.... but yes, once installed a dual boot is an option

it's how they make their monies..... :smirk:

Crickey! This is a great price for a really good machine.

6:20pm update: The eBuyer basket shows how many left - was around 25 when OP posted, now down to just 8 left, so don't delay too long if you're interested - that's how I missed out on last month's batch (at £300 from Dell, a blessing in disguise lol).

Thanks OP - I ordered one. My desktop died about 10 days ago so I have been looking for a bargain.

I am not sure if I will get one though as it said there were only 8 left when I ordered and apparently 8 people were about to buy one. No idea how true that is.

If I wanted to upgrade the PSU how hard would it be ?

amazing price

PSUs should be standard size but reading the other deals on this some have commented that it was difficult to get a PSU to fit. I find that a bit hard to believe as the PSU is supposed to be standard size - as I just said. (I am repeating myself.).

I wonder if the Dell is simply just very well designed to use their own PSU and that the cables coming out of third party ones maybe do not have enough space inside the Dell case.

In terms of fitting a new PSU it should be easy enough. If I was getting a replacement I would get a modular one which allowed me to attach the cables I needed only and thus not have loads of unneeded cables talking up space and heating up the case.

Anyone know how accurate ebuyers stock count is? I bought one about an hour ago and it said 6 left in stock - now there still seem to be 6 left!

The PSU appears to be standard ATX and the case has space around it at the back, it would look like another PSU should fit ok although I've not tried myself

Pictures here
http://uk.hardware.info/product/331298/dell-vostro-3900/photos

a little bit, not even sure if the dell's power supply is a standard fitting.
I dont think it's worth it in my opinion. Even if this was my own post, I would still say the same

Not sure why you want to upgrage the power supply... if you were going to use a more power video card, you would want to overclock the CPU to get the most out of it, but you the bios's overclocking features are locked.....

(I think you missed the cost of a motherboard in the above...)

and PSU

yeah I did, I already owned up to that, sorry

I still feel like a pc builder could do a better job with custom stuff, cos the stock PSU and mboard sucks imo, but I guess for an average pc user or for someone who cant build PCs this is a cracker

Im a big pc gamer so I guess my standards of 'not good enough' are niche

Good deal.

What wattage PSU does this have?

NVM found out myself

Power
Device Type Power supply
Nominal Voltage ( 50/60 Hz )
Power Provided 300 Watt

Tahir,

I know you're trying to be helpful but you do write some pretty uninformed stuff. You should never put a 180W TDP graphics card into this. You'd have just the CPU and graphics card with 264W TDP from a 300W PSU and they'd want 12V and from what I remember this alone would be way over spec. On top of that the motherboard, RAM, drives and USB devices will all want power. Sure, a GTX 750Ti or 950 but nothing more unless you want a machine that won't boot or you want to test the quality of your insurance firm's loss adjusters.

Did a quick build to see if this could be beaten I could get the same.

Got £284.12 without cheaping out on a Case/PSU if I did that I could get it to around £250 but that's not including windows great this is a great deal tbh.

Only downfall I see is if your wanting to do some serious gaming on this it may need a PSU upgrade although you could get a 750ti / 950 without a 6-pin power plug and should be able to play atleast medium settings or above depending on the game.

expire, all gone.

You do realise, Ram, hard drives and the like are very low powered devices? it's only the CPU and GPU which use a lot of power. Please go check out review on computer system power consumption.. Total system consumption while in use is probably somewhere around 20-40 watts minus the CPU and GPU. Please do some research beforehand....

when they have the comparison between the polaris and gtx 950. they had total system wattage at 86 watts, the entire system was using 40 watts with the cpu.- the GPU.

have a nice day :wink:

This is apparently a very quiet PC. That is worth money IMPO and, having built a lot of my own quiet PCs, it can cost a lot extra to get a PC fairly quiet.

The Dell PSUs are normally very efficient. An efficient Dell 300 PSU will most likely be better than cheaper slightly more powerful PSUs.

If you decide to go down the SSD option and you remove the HDD altogether you would save a bit of power consumption.

If you add in the RAM, the cost of a SSD and even a new PSU and better graphics card you are still below £400 but would have a very good PC for that money.

Seems to me though that most people would be happy with it out of the box. If my order completes I will order the extra RAM and probably a 250GB SSD. I will then use the HHD as a backup device.

I have been looking around in recent weeks for a Dell laptop or desktop deal. On the Dell Outlet it was going to cost me near £400, when VAT and delivery is included, for some of their i3 desktops. Their new i5 desktops are very expensive IMPO and you don't save much on the Outlet if you save at all.

I think spanners deserves 10% off his next dell purchase

According to the Crucial site the maximum memory is 16GB for this PC.

So, is there any actual performance advantage in having 16GB in this Vostro over having 8GB? Or is it a case of diminishing returns over 8GB?

http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Dell/vostro-3900-mini-tower

No returns.... 8GB is plenty. Even gaming with 16GB is debateble....

290.99 now :disappointed:

OK guys deal is over, please head back to my other earlier deal where this is £274 from LaptopsDirect
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/dell-vostro-3900-desktop-back-i5-4460-3-2ghz-win7pro-win8-1pro-w10-pro-4gb-500gb-2454982

:smile:

Thanks. I will order the extra 4GB to take it up to 8GB.

The cost for going to 16GB is a bit prohibitive anyhow at the moment.

If anyone can recommend a decent 250GB SSD drive for under £50 I would be grateful. I see that there is a Crucial 250GB BX200 SSD for £50.99 on Amazon UK but some of the reviews say that it only has a small fast cache.

Not having used an SSD before I am unsure how important this is or not?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-BX200-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B016JREGAC

I have got Crucial BX100, Samsung 830 and 840 and Sandisk Ultra, all been fine. Avoid Kingston V300 at all costs. Not sure about the Crucial BX200, might only be an issue if transferring large sized files, if I recall?

I manage with 120GB SSD drives and use the other 500GB for storage, depends on your budget but I've yet to use more than 60% of the SSD. You can get 120GB SSD's from £25

One thing to note, the Vostro 3900 has a second slot for a second hard drive - the smaller 2.5" SSD will not fit in here easily, even with a 2.5" to 3.5" adaptor you will find the power cable is too short unless your adaptor is designed to mount the SSD offset (most mount them dead centre) - hard to explain but the SATA power plug is shared from the other drive and it's designed for 2 x 3.5" drives exactly. You might need an adaptor like THIS - the simpler alternative is to mount the SSD under the optical drive, you'll need a 12" SATA data cable but there is sufficient slack in the spare SATA power lead in that location.
This pic shows how little slack there is on the 2 SATA HD power plugs

Didn't you attach the SSD under the optical drive using double-sided sticky tape?

I mount my ssd’s with Velcro...

No I mounted mine on its edge under the optical drive using 1 small screw :smile:
Someone else said they velcroed theirs under the optical drive, there's space to do that quite easily.

Well I'm deeply concerned that desktop sales are plummeting and am doing my bit to help the industry :smile:

Out of interest, what is the vibration situation with SSDs? I presume they are not as sensitive to vibration and shock as much as platter HDDs due to no moving parts?

They're fairly tough, no moving parts so they can take some knocks. Just a circuit board and components, so unless you smack it hard, drop it etc it can take vibration etc without issue.

Does anyone know what monitor resolution this will support with the built in graphics? assuming my orders Ok and I get this I think a new monitor will be in order soon as well and not sure what would be good.

According to this review it is capable of driving 2 Full HD monitors out of the box. So a good 1080P FHD monitor should be fine.

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/pc-mac-desktops/dell-vostro-3900-1317585/review

Full HD, only has a HDMI and VGA connection. 2560x1440 @60HZ wont be possible with this computer

Cheers

was a 1080P was thinking of getting so that should be OK then.

Wait for something like this to crop up on here. You can get pretty good monitors for just under £100 these days and certainly in the £130 and under.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/acer-g246hlbbid-24-monitor-fhd-dvi-hdmi-vga-2ms-79-98-ebuyer-2441324

Cheers
I'll keep an eye out.

This is a good monitor and has been a hotukdeal before at £89.99. Now £95.

http://www.ebuyer.com/700237-acer-v246hqlbbd-23-6-dvi-ips-monitor-um-uv6ee-b01

Idea: (based on the photo) move the HD to the lower bay on the end of the power cable - ie P5 - and then the upper bay could have the SSD and the P3 connector has more slack & can be in more varied position?

re Various Q's re HD 4600 (with Core i5 CPU) resolution for driving monitors: Intel quote "DisplayPort*/HDMI- 3840x2160@ 60Hz, [email protected], VGA"
http://www.intel.co.uk/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/guides/performance-xeon-e3-1200-hd-graphics-p4000-guide.pdf

mk-donald. that's genius :smile: why the hell didn't I think of that :smile:
funny how you can miss the blindingly obvious!
I think the spacing between plugs may still be too tight but well worth a try, the problem is that most 2.5" apaptors place the SSD in the middle so you have to stretch the cable across at 45 degrees.

It's back in stock at £250.98 now, mods please can you un-expire the Ebuyer deal?

Updated :smiley:

Thanks mods, we love you :smile:

oh and thanks to Buzzard for pm'ing me to let me know the deal was back, we love you too :smile:

And that's the thing, yes a custom PC builder could build a much better specified machine but not for less, not for this price even, when you take into account comparing like for like.

If you're a gamer then your needs are certainly much different to non gamers, any serious gamer should not considering a low cost home/office computer like this. But for an occasional gamer that isn't into latest games or high resolution gaming then this will be a cheap way to get semi decent performance. The motherboard will be basic but it won't perform badly, the days of cheap motherboards also performing badly have long gone (since the early 2000's) but the younger members here may not have come across nasty PC Chips motherboards :smile:

Does this mobo and case have room to put a large graphics card in it? Please get back to me!

It can take a medium sized card but remember, the power supply does NOT have any molex aux connectors that many larger graphics cards require.

Out of stock again?

out of stock

Was upped to £290ish last night, 11am Sunday 29th showing -as above- 'out of stock' no price showing.

well being oos saved me £250

out of stock - again!

This is scary. Ebuyer is displaying Dell Vostro 3900 MT Desktop' is discontinued;

Maybe they don't plan to restock this any more, it is an earlier generation CPU and products move on quite quickly. Hopefully nothing to worry about if you already placed an order.

saw they have the same dell vostro 3900 MT but its an i3 now. Better check the processor when it comes.

Ive had dell before. 15+ years still works although not used it for 10 years.

When I log into the site and check my order it says goods allocated and will be delivered by Monday the 6th of June so sounds promising.

Just got an email saying that my payment has been accepted and the order is processing through their warehouse.

This is a bargain little desktop. No way can I come near it in terms of specs for the price elsewhere.

Same. Looks alright.

Hi Robert,

Your order is being processed and payment has been taken successfully.

This means your order is moving through our warehouse and will soon be passed over to our couriers for delivery.

The email also included the specs mentioning an i5 CPU.

I spent the last fortnight on the Dell Outlet hoping to get a used desktop for about £350 but they wanted about £450 to £500 for the refurbished i5s. They have their most basic i5 advertised as £399 on their site for brand new but whenever you click on it or add it to the basket it comes out as £499.

So, chuffed with this.

Guys I can't see you having a problem here, Ebuyer just sold out and the model is being discontinued I suspect, at least as far as Ebuyer are concerned (Dell still have it for sale)

I'm fairly sure you'll get the i5 exactly as ordered.

The i3 version was always for sale from Ebuyer and when this i5 was £250 the i3 was £303 (crazy!)

I have missed this deal... where do I get the same price with same specification.

You can't right now, the deal is over and at this time the cheapest price is £301 from Ballicom. If you keep checking Google over the next few weeks you might find the price drops again. The price has been going up and down for several months, so it is a case of waiting.

There's an HP desktop for £329.99 with £100 trade in if you have a suitable old machine to trade in, same specs as this Dell more or less.
http://www.ebuyer.com/719945-hp-280-g1-mt-desktop-n9e78ea-abu

Hi spannerzone - I missed the original deal but I'm interested in this one you have posted with the £100 cashback.

When I click on the cashback it says 'Business' can claim £100 cashback when trading in. Will there be any problem for a private sale? Also, I have an ancient Dell Inspiron I'm replacing so assume this is OK for the trade in?

While it's aimed at business there are HUKD members that have done this a few times, they seem to just put their name and address for company info (you could be a sole trader after all) so there shouldn't be any problems.

What can happen is the company that HP use to deal with the trade in computers have been known to, umm, distort the truth about what you sent in, they sometimes say parts are missing or damaged and offer less trade in. It seems very important to read the terms and conditions and make sure your trade in meets the criterior....they usually accept any XP computer that has a legitimate XP sticker on it but if it's not XP then they had a 6 year limit if I recall, but no limit on an XP computer. Make sure you return all accessories like power cables and take photos of all items returned. Having said all that, many people buy a knackered XP laptop that just about works from Ebay for £15 and use that.

This deal posted by Jiffy some time back might help and he might be able to offer further insight
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hp-280-g1-mt-intel-i5-desktop-pc-for-350-40-less-175-trade-for-business-customers-2307063?page=2#comments

Thanks for that. Very helpful spannerzone. I'm running an ancient Dell Inspiron that's 8 years old and came preloaded with Vista as the OS (it's still running Vista).

I notice that XP was a predecessor to Vista, so does that mean any Vista machine will be accepted as it's a newer OS than XP?

These Dell Inspinon cases are pretty generic so not sure if they bother delving deeper for the manufacturer date, or just go by the fact it's running XP or later OS systems?

Thanks again for your help.

As I understand it, any XP machine is accepted BUT any other operating system that came with the computer must be no more than 6 years old which really means a Win7 PC.

Now do they check that carefully and can they check the date accurately? I don't know..... I'd be inclined to find an XP sticker and put that on to cover all bases. What they do with the old PC is anyone's guess....surely they don't refurb and send to Africa?!

Just noticed the Trade in ends 31st May - but it's likely (but I am guessing) that HP will do another promotion in June

Terms state:
For your Trade-in to qualify for the promotion it must be a working, complete and undamaged, (reasonable wear and tear accepted) Laptop (minimum 10” screen size), Tablet (minimum 9” screen size) or Desktop. Your Trade-in must be no more than 6 years old (age limitations are not applicable to genuine Microsoft XP computers) and complete with all accessories including working battery and power supply where applicable.

I agree with you, but deals won't generally suit everyone.

(the PSU's in Vostro & the enterprise end of OEMs are normally 80 PLUS Bronze - minimum)

Wow - ours just got delivered by ParcelForce 24hr service!

Had eBuyer email late yesterday that despatched but site said no tracking information just that would be by promised date - ie free ship by 6/6.

Box top had clearly been retaped with Dell security tape once before; brilliantly packaged otherwise - USB keyboard & 'rest' with 2 discs for Windows 8 & Drivers, and a USB mouse hiding UNDERNEATH the system unit.

HOWEVER : just checked the Service Tag # on Dell UK's website and it's showing the Dell 1 year warranty as starting back in end October 2015 (with 2 warranties for 12m and 14m to Dec 16) ! I have opened an eNote with eBuyer on this topic!

Just tried getting technical support on Dell site for the Service Tag # and it says "There’s no match for that Service Tag. Retype the code or allow 48 hours for new devices to register on our site. " so MAYBE only when the system is first connected to the net does it get registered? [not bought a Dell for a LONG time]

PS
Got a prompt response from eBuyer - see below
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/dell-vostro-3900-even-cheaper-desktop-pc-i5-4460-3-2ghz-win7pro-win8-1pro-w10pro-2455242?p=28124948

sounds good. mine says awaiting dispatch. Strange they put windows 8 in can it not be upgraded straight from widows 7 to 10 which I think is better than 8.

I think you'd find the original listing showed:
"Operating System / Software
"OS Provided Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit Edition / Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Edition downgrade"

As you say - best to just blag your free Windows 10 upgrade ASAP as it's only free until 29/7, ie only 8 weeks to go!
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/upgrade-to-windows-10-faq

PS
Stand corrected - mine came with Windows 7 Pro SP1 pre-installed rather than 8, and seems initially during setup (ie the defaults offered) to think it belongs in the Netherlands rather than English/UK/GMT so may explain some of system past! Just claiming the Win 10 update.

I have had similar issues with warranties when buying Dell items from other sources - it seems that when Dell supply these to Ebuyer or Dabs they I think they start the warranty from date of supply from Dell or possibly Dell give the item a 15 month warranty know it'll be in a warehouse for a month or two before being sold. I think these Vostro's were bulk bought last autumn by some mega wholesaler who has been dumping stock of late, hence random deals appearing a lot lately.

A laser printer and the desktop I got from Ebuyer and Dabs both had this issue, I raised it with Dell and they said it was to do with the supplier (Ebuyer/Dabs) - Dabs didn't respond and I didn't bother asking Ebuyer. I figured I'd not lose sleep over it as these things rarely go wrong. Famous last words eh. :smile:

I would upgrade to Win 10 immedietly to ensure your machine's ID is given a valid authentication for Win10 entitlement.

If you want to keep Win7 for the time being and have a spare hard drive why not temp install spare hard drive, install Win10 from scratch, let it authenticate your machine ID to get Win10 Pro a genuine status then pop the Win7 hard drive back in.

Or just upgrade to 10 and be done with it.

Well it was advertised as having a Manufacturers 12 month warranty and hence I expect the Dell system to reflect that and not 12/14 months from late Oct 2015 [which tallies with your wholesaler theory]. I shall expect a proper response from eBuyer and until then system's staying in a state to be rejected as not as advertised!

(That said I have in the past found eBuyer really helpful with support of products with their retailer legal liabilities, rather than bonus of manufacturer offered warranty - eg why one buys Dell rather than ANO - even just giving me a 100% refund with a faulty Ethernet switch I reported (albeit only c£15)).

Got a prompt response from eBuyer to my eNote query, that I'm going to regard as satisfactory, even though would have preferred Dell online system to show correct date:
"This computer does come with a 1 year warranty starting from 31/05/16.
"All you need is the copy of your invoice to prove to Dell when you purchased this."

PS: Actually I'm going to speak to Dell on Thursday and ensure that Dell recognise the warranty commitment (ie that eBuyer are valid reseller of this 7.5month old product).

Received an email saying order flow items out of stock at 4.24pm. Hopefully they'll find some more stock and be able to fulfil. I was pretty quick in getting this deal (I believe) so fairly sure others will be getting this same email.

From email times:
- Our order (for this Dell 3900 + couple of other items) was placed Sat 28/5 at 16:06
- Payment processed at 16:09
- First (other item) despatch email Tue 31/05 at 13:00 [showed on online order progress, others still 'processing']
- Dell 3900 despatch email 31/05 late evening [deleted it now] and delivered midday'ish Wed 1/6 via 24hr ParcelForce

My order was placed at 14.41pm Saturday afternoon. Hoping it's just an error or something.

Called them yesterday to say I was in no hurry as going on holidays, they noted that on the order.

Got a despatch email late last night and pc was delivered this afternoon.

It all looks good, thanks again :sunglasses:spannerzone:sunglasses:

Yes I just got an email about the order flow out of stock as well. Rang them and the bloke said they have some in now and he's allocated one for delivery Monday so not sure what's going on we will see.

Yes I think the first job will be to get the windows 10 update on:)

Now back in stock at £314 - they've got some funny stock control mechanisms....this sold out and went to no longer being stocked/discontinued yesterday if I recall.

Hopefully it means they'll honour the purchases at the £250 price.

Frecking typical - I ordered the RAM today for £15 from Crucial and got an email a bit later saying the RAM had been dispatched. I then got an email 10 minutes later from Ebuyer saying that they had no stock of the Vostro.

I am pretty sure that it is illegal to advertise something at price X, accept orders, then claim to be out of stock and miraculously have the same product in stock for a higher price within hours?

What do they want now - £66 more?

That's outrageous especially as some seem to have taken delivery - this looks like some balls up by Ebuyer and made worse by them having the cheek to restock it soon after back at a higher price. Unbelievable.

The other deal I posted from Laptops Direct seems to be troublesome too where they've cancelled orders despite it being at a higher price a couple days ago and then reduce the price and then 4 days later cancel orders going back 4 days.

It makes no sense but the cynical might think they're playing customers for fools

I found this online about misleading prices. I will ring them in the morning and see whether they will honour the sale and send me the PC for the original price. If not, I will make a formal complaint to trading standards.

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/tradingstandards/tradingstandards-consumer/goodsandservices-consumers/tsguide-pricing.htm

It's no consultation - but anyone that doesn't get this deal might find the price drops back down again from other sellers, this product has been sold at decent prices from Ballicom, Ebuyer, Dabs (BT now), Laptops Direct and sometimes Dell direct so there's a chance we'll be seeing more deals soon - but am really sorry some of you have got screwed around by hopeless retailers.

I will make the complaint to trading standards - the more people who do it the better as retailers who do this repeatedly can get hefty fines. It won't get us the desktop but it might stop others being mislead.

Well, I contacted them this morning via their chat and explained the situation. The guy asked for the code of the Vostro and said that he could see that the price had shot up. I mentioned the consumer rights act about 'baiting and switching'.

He said that he would have to contact his manager and then email me back. So I will let you know what happens.

Just to add a bit more info to the ebuyer suspect trading debate.
I got the out of stock email even though last night it still said in stock. Called and my first question was can you check stock of an item for me please. Over 400 in stock sir at £409. That's good then because I had an out of stock email yesterday for one I ordered last week. err it went out of stock on the 31st and we have just had over 4 hundred delivered this morning.
popped back onto the site, Discontinued no stock. Suspect to say the least.
More likely, they wanted to cancel orders and used the no stock excuse but then upped the price and carried on selling. Someone realised after a few queries and they have now changed it to say not available to justify all the cancellation emails.
After 48 hours they will chance upon more stock that you can buy at a new higher price?

It was back at LaptopsDirect yesterday morning for about four hours at £234 plus free collection or £6 for delivery, but now oos.
Cheapest current offer seems to be at CCL for £300 delivered.

Was told categorically that there is no stock left. Despite being an early orderer at the £249.99 price point right after this deal was posted. And showing as in stock all day yesterday at £314.99.

I would suspect they're just cancelling some orders to make an extra £50-65 a unit. I'm not exactly steaming about it, but annoyingly have already bought RAM and SSD upgrades in preperation. Would of been an amazing price at the £250 but them's the chances you take with picking up deals.

Thanks for posting either way. Glad some got luckier.

well out of that catagorical none they are apparently sending me one.
From over 400 to none in minutes.
I thought they sold computers, not one direction tickets.

i ordered one at 8pm last night after the one id ordered from laptop direct wasnt available due to no stock. the one i ordered last night was delivered 10 mins ago.

Which just goes to prove that they deliberately continued to sell at a higher price whilst telling others that ordered at the lower price that they had no stock left. My original purchase was 5 days ago, the no stock email yesterday midday before you ordered and the phone call where he said over 400 had come in this morning was this morning.

yep, when i ordered it was showing stock of 411.

I just got an email from them saying that they will not honour the sale. It says that they are out of stock and that the other Vostro is a different specification and comes from a different warehouse.

I replied informing them that it is the exact same spec and that I intend to complain to Trading Standards.

I received an email from them that they are out of stock while few days ago they emailed me that they took money from my card. How to complain to Trading Standards? Is this company run by a clown?

You need to contact your local council trading standards, ask them what their process is for making a complaint and then do so. I fully intend to.

I just got another email from ebuyer telling me that the processor in the Vostro 3900 I ordered is different from the one now on sale for a higher price.

I emailed back pointing out that they are both i5s and that I will let trading standards look into it. I also informed them that I am aware that 'baiting and switching' is illegal under the consumer rights act but will let trading standards decide for themselves.

They are going to lose a lot of customers like this. If mine doesn't arrive on Monday (as they have a assured me it will over the phone) I for one will not be using them again. We will see.

wow outrageous....it's the exact same machine, the Dell part no. is the same, they're supplying some customers at this price, they're just lying plain and simple because their pricing system may have automatically gone too low.

However Ebuyer are not known for their generosity and understanding....and playing fsir when it's not going how they want it.

Interesting how Dell is supplying this cheaper to third party sellers than they are selling it for themselves.

It's odd, this particular model seems to change price almost daily. often little amounts but sometimes £20 to £50 variation, no obvious reason why such variation but I'm sure some algorithm at Ebuyer watches the other sellers and vice versa so if one does go down, another goes down a bit more, almost like stocks and shares. As people probably have guessed, I've been watching this for a few months and notice the price changes almost daily with a number of sellers.

I wonder if some automated system has gone a bit nuts selling products at cost price hence Ebuyer deciding to pull the product rather than make no money and then thinking no one will notice when the restock it at a higher price again, despite saying they have no stock of the previously priced product - ulitimately resulting in them lying to customers.

My other thought is that certain products are sold via sellers like Ebuyer/Laptops Direct etc but they don't actually stock the product and simply get a third party mega wholesaler to deliver the goods.... a bit like dropshipping on certain products. That might explain why they sell stock they don't have as they don't have a totally tight control as other companies could be selling the same product and there might be a stock discrepency when a product gets popular from several suppliers as has happened in this case.

What do you think is a fair 'top' price to pay for this?

I had to contact them this morning to get them to refund my money to my paypal account. Admittedly, they did it within a few minutes but I do wonder how long it would have taken if I had not contacted them.

I won't be buying from EBUYER again.

​ha well I paid around £360 and still think it's worth the price..... I think £300-£330 seems fair

Thanks. I doubt that it is worth waiting for £250.00 or £238 now as they seem to be hit and miss whether you will get one anyway. Well done to those who did get them at those prices but I suspect most new buyers will end up paying nearer £300 now or slightly above.

I'm still holding out some hope. I just contacted them as the moneys gone out. They informed me it will dispatch today for delivery on Monday. Hopefully this is correct but will believe it when its in my hands :smiley:

I had the money go from my paypal straight away but maybe that is how paypal works. I gave them plenty of opportunity to change their minds and send one to me but they didn't.

Did you get a cancellation email?

Dumb question - does the machine have built in wi-fi and if it does how do I turn it on?!
If it doesn't - what a crock!

I had the email about out of stock a few days ago. I rang them to cancel it and they said actually they had some stock and if I wanted I could still have it. Thought I'd give then a chance. juts got in touch again today to see what was happening and they said its due to be dispatched today.Not had another cancellation or anything as yet. will have to see if I'm lucky. As I say I will believe it when it turns up.

No wifi on this model, a £15 PCI-E wifi card solves that problem.

You did read the specs before buying right? :confused:

To be honest a lot of desktops don't come with wifi .

Spec are like instructions, only to be read in emergencies!

I thought everything came with wifi built in these days.

Will a dongle do the trick instead of apci card and if so do I need a specific type please?

One thing to check is your warranty - I registered mine on dells website and found it only has 208 days warranty as they sold it to ebuyer way back when. They are updating it now but it's a faff.

Yes a dongle should work too I would think. How did you get them to update the warranty? if mine actually arrives I will check that.

Registered it at dell.com, then spoke to cs - had to email a copy of the delivery note. Still waiting for updated date on website

On one of the many Vostro 3900 threads someone posted that they could not get a TP-Link card to work - I assumed they meant the internal card??? I have an external USB TP-Link but it is a bit worrying.

Best of luck.

Keep us updated please. If the warranty does not become the full amount then it is almost as if your were sold a second-hand PC. Best of luck.

Yes a USB wifi dongle will work as should a PCI or PCI-E wifi card (I'd maybe consider a PCI card to use up the 1 PCI slot that is unlikely to be used for much else) however I'd rarely use wifi on a desktop as they're often low on the ground and the antenna behind the PC which can shield signals. Plus I have a thing about desktops should be hard wired :smile:

My warranty has now been updated to the purchase date and not when it was shipped to ebuyer so 12 months warranty in place officially now

nice, how much hassle was that in the end?

A phone call from me and emailing them the invoice/ delivery note did the trick. If anything does go wrong with a machine I am sure buyers will be covered if they do this or not but it may prolong the wait if the information is not up to date