Great news from Dell and Alienware

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

This is bad in the short term for Bitcoin. Because Dell uses Coinbase(instead of accepting and keeping Bitcoin directly), coinbase will need to eventually sell the BTC to cover the USD they gave to Dell. This is why the price is dropping. Then people start to panic and sell as well.

Hmmm...Why do people keep saying the price is dropping?  For me it has been going up...Yesterday morning: 580, end of day: 605 ,this morning went to $602, so it went down a tiny bit at night...but I wouldn't mind it doing that every dang day

What are you talking about? It was $630 when Dell announced they started accepting Bitcoin payments. Since then it went down.

[Balls]

I wonder how they can offer 10% off.  I mean their margins can't be that big.  Maybe they are just trying to use the discount for advertisement and to drum up some business.  I do think it's a good thing though.  I really could see some saver-minded folks trying to figure out bitcoin so they can use it to get the 10% off.

Many companies give 10% off. You can often fine 10% off codes and staff members of shops often get 10% discounts. It's not a huge number to them.

[leex1528]

What are you talking about? It was $630 when Dell announced they started accepting Bitcoin payments. Since then it went down.

I guess it depends where you are looking?   

I am just going by what I can sell/buy them for.

It looks like they announced it yesterday at 11:30 my time, the price then was $604(roughly)  so right now it is $601(roughly)  So I guess it did go down 3 dollars...

I was just judging by yesterday that it has gone up, In 24 hours its up $20 bucks for me

[franky1]

I wonder how they can offer 10% off.  I mean their margins can't be that big.  Maybe they are just trying to use the discount for advertisement and to drum up some business.  I do think it's a good thing though.  I really could see some saver-minded folks trying to figure out bitcoin so they can use it to get the 10% off.

dell knows that some products go through the sales telephone line,which means commissions for the sales guy talking to the customer, and standard labour/wage.

businesses do spend time working out to the penny, including average labour for telesales, commissions, even the electric used to have the telesales PC running, the phone bills, every single penny costing etc. and then quantify the totals vs the sales they do. so with bitcoins its deemed to be a pure webpage sale, which means that EVERY product bought with bitcoins does not have potential of costing commissions, telesale, etc thus the profit margin per bitcoin sale is higher. so thy can offer discounts.

its not just about credit card charges and average chance of a chargeback. its the other stuff too that bitcoins can save a company on

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

What are you talking about? It was $630 when Dell announced they started accepting Bitcoin payments. Since then it went down.

I guess it depends where you are looking?   

I am just going by what I can sell/buy them for.

It looks like they announced it yesterday at 11:30 my time, the price then was $604(roughly)  so right now it is $601(roughly)  So I guess it did go down 3 dollars...

I was just judging by yesterday that it has gone up, In 24 hours its up $20 bucks for me

They announced it on the 19th, not yesterday. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=700537.0 . Look at the charts, go back to the 19th and notice the price went up to 630, look at it now.

[leex1528]

They announced it on the 19th, not yesterday. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=700537.0 . Look at the charts, go back to the 19th and notice the price went up to 630, look at it now.

I was just looking at the Twitter topic posted in the OP.  I didn't know they announced it the 19th, but some other guy was arguing with me the other day about the price dropping over the last 5 hours or something, and it had gone up $20 bucks and I was confused...

Anyway yes it looks like the price went down since the 19th

[cech4204a]

At least dell is smart enough to accept bitcoins. I think all IT and PC harware stores and manufacturers should accept bitcoins, since they can understand how it works and it's clear that bitcoins are the future, take it or leave it, but it will be too late very soon when prices will be so sick.

[banque]

All our guys have high end ASUS

Never had a dell never will

[StatusSeeking]

Title should be: "Dell offering 10% discount when purchasing Alienware with Bitcoin"

I do hope they find it a success and have similar offers for their other products as a result.

[mamarried]

Title should be: "Dell offering 10% discount when purchasing Alienware with Bitcoin"

I do hope they find it a success and have similar offers for their other products as a result.

Yeah, alienware stuff is way overprices already. If you build the same computer from components, you save more than the 10%.

[Swordsoffreedom]

All our guys have high end ASUS

Never had a dell never will

True enough been loving my ASUS has a great balance to cost ratio
LG as well but that is as an aside.
Although an alienware might be a bit tempting if not overpriced though.

[ChuckStrawberry]

Yeah, alienware stuff is way overprices already. If you build the same computer from components, you save more than the 10%.

And you can buy all the parts from Newegg with BTC 

[milan74]

Great news that they are even offering discount for bitcoin. I give respect for Dell

[DreadIsBack]

I'll be waiting till that moment when apple will do this

[Swordsoffreedom]

I'll be waiting till that moment when apple will do this

One step at a time first from denial blocking it from their app store to ignoring it I guess we skipped ridicule and went straight back to acceptance.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

Either way I'm sure apple will get to it sooner or later unless their board is nothing without jobs lol.

[Mayuyu48]

good news, another company accept bitcoin as payment options for their product
but using coinbase as payment processor means they will immediately sell that bitcoin to receive cash
10% is good offer, but Alienware is too expensive i think, compare to another competitor who offer same specs / maybe better
how about outside US, do they still offer this promotion?
hope this news make bitcoin more exposed

[Icardi09]

I think it is a great news https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/492347634682576896
Dell offering 10% discount when purchasing Alienware with Bitcoin. Hope they spread this to other Dell products.

So Alienware now accepts Bitcoin! https://twitter.com/Alienware/status/492351443899138048
I know this would make sense as Alienware is Dell.

I think it's not bad. although in my country is not that great a fan of dell, they prefer the Sony or apple

[gtraah]

I think it is a great news https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/492347634682576896
Dell offering 10% discount when purchasing Alienware with Bitcoin. Hope they spread this to other Dell products.

So Alienware now accepts Bitcoin! https://twitter.com/Alienware/status/492351443899138048
I know this would make sense as Alienware is Dell.

I think it's not bad. although in my country is not that great a fan of dell, they prefer the Sony or apple

Sony laptop :\ hmm

[Super Bitcoin]

I think it is a great news https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/492347634682576896
Dell offering 10% discount when purchasing Alienware with Bitcoin. Hope they spread this to other Dell products.

So Alienware now accepts Bitcoin! https://twitter.com/Alienware/status/492351443899138048
I know this would make sense as Alienware is Dell.

hopes this will bitcoin will touch 5k later . this will amazing step

[movelikejagger]

I think it is a great news https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/492347634682576896
Dell offering 10% discount when purchasing Alienware with Bitcoin. Hope they spread this to other Dell products.

So Alienware now accepts Bitcoin! https://twitter.com/Alienware/status/492351443899138048
I know this would make sense as Alienware is Dell.

I think it's not bad. although in my country is not that great a fan of dell, they prefer the Sony or apple

Sony laptop :\ hmm

Sony...Apple...of course Apple...Sony was good 10 years ago but now...not