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thinkweird · #1 Post by **thinkweird** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:20 am

I am not so familiar with the Lenovo marketing strategy and buy a T60 at right time can mean serval hundred dollar's difference.

Right now lenovo extendeds its holiday sale (though the 512mb memory upgrade is no longer free) to 18th but after that, what the price is gonna be?

According to your past experience, will it be even lower in January? Or I should buy it now and avoid regrets later?

P.S: I won't use the laptop until January so if the price can be even lower, I will buy that time. Hard decision.

pianowizard · #2 Post by **pianowizard** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:36 am

I asked the same question recently and someone said there was an "employees' discount for everyone" sale in January 2006.

TwoSteppin4140 · #3 Post by **TwoSteppin4140** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:43 am

Well, think of it this way...if you buy now, say today, and sometime after the first of the year they have an even better sale (though I'd doubt it) you can call them and have them price match your current config to what a new one would cost.

So, even if you buy now, you might still be able to get in on a "newer" sale.

I'm new to Lenovo, but I don't think that they'd end this sale on the 18th, and then come Jan 1 have a bigger & better sale...

thinkweird · #4 Post by **thinkweird** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:15 pm

TwoSteppin4140 wrote:Well, think of it this way...if you buy now, say today, and sometime after the first of the year they have an even better sale (though I'd doubt it) you can call them and have them price match your current config to what a new one would cost.

I don't think lenovo has the "price protection program" as HP does. Are you sure that I can call and ask for a price proection with lenovo?

thinkweird · #5 Post by **thinkweird** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:17 pm

pianowizard wrote:I asked the same question recently and someone said there was an "employees' discount for everyone" sale in January 2006.

The tricky part is: if the price is pumped up for $200-$300 dollars and then offer a $100 "employee program" to the customers, buyers will still lose money.

TwoSteppin4140 · #6 Post by **TwoSteppin4140** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:23 pm

thinkweird wrote:I don't think lenovo has the "price protection program" as HP does. Are you sure that I can call and ask for a price proection with lenovo?

Well, actually no I'm not. So I guess you'd want to call or clarify that.

But, I could have sworn that they had a 30 day price matching policy and I thought that I saw someone on here make a post that mentioned that they had done something similar. I guess I'd call and check though.

pianowizard · #7 Post by **pianowizard** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:21 pm

thinkweird wrote:The tricky part is: if the price is pumped up for $200-$300 dollars and then offer a $100 "employee program" to the customers, buyers will still lose money.

In theory that could happen but I don't think that was the case last time -- the deals were really great. But if I remember correctly, it was very brief (one day?) and most of us knew about it only afterward.

nombrecinq · #8 Post by **nombrecinq** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:48 pm

I believe there's a 30 day price guarantee from the day you receive it?

ronan_zj · #9 Post by **ronan_zj** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:34 pm

Just dont wait.
because Lenovo will come out new price all the time.
If you want to wait for a good deal, you may not get a laptop top before Santa Rosa comes out.

#10 Post by **GomJabbar** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:45 pm

Reminds me of a story where one of the Admins had a deal to get a model Z60t at a very good price. While deliberating several days on whether to buy the Z60t or go for a newer model, he missed out.

pianowizard · #11 Post by **pianowizard** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:02 pm

nombrecinq wrote:I believe there's a 30 day price guarantee from the day you receive it?

Oh, just like Best Buy? That's excellent!

thinkweird · #12 Post by **thinkweird** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:17 pm

I will travel anyway so I decide to wait until January 2nd. This is the configuration I wanted and as of today Dec 12th 2006 the web price is: $1,169

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Core 2 Duo processor T7200 (2.0GHz, 4MB L2, 667MHz FSB) XP Home Edition
14.1 SXGA+ TFT
X1300 64MB
1 GB
60 GB 5400rpm
CD-RW/DVD-ROM
ThinkPad 11a/b/g
Battery: 6 cell Li-Ion Battery
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I will take the risk anyway.

pianowizard · #13 Post by **pianowizard** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:26 pm

thinkweird wrote:I will travel anyway so I decide to wait until January 2nd. This is the configuration I wanted and as of today Dec 12th 2006 the web price is: $1,169.....I will take the risk anyway.

Let's say the price for this configuration will be $1,299 in early January. What would you do?

ronan_zj · #14 Post by **ronan_zj** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:42 am

pianowizard wrote:
thinkweird wrote:I will travel anyway so I decide to wait until January 2nd. This is the configuration I wanted and as of today Dec 12th 2006 the web price is: $1,169.....I will take the risk anyway.
Let's say the price for this configuration will be $1,299 in early January. What would you do?

maybe they will have back to school sale???

thinkweird · #15 Post by **thinkweird** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:08 pm

pianowizard wrote:
thinkweird wrote:I will travel anyway so I decide to wait until January 2nd. This is the configuration I wanted and as of today Dec 12th 2006 the web price is: $1,169.....I will take the risk anyway.
Let's say the price for this configuration will be $1,299 in early January. What would you do?

Now the same configuration (see above) costs $1469 on lenovo website, exactly $300 more than the sale price.

What would I do? I am thinking of choosing a macbook or HP dv2000t considering the current price.

But meanwhile, it is interesting to see how Lenovo does its marketing in the near future.

steveg47 · #16 Post by **steveg47** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:39 pm

When you figure out Lenovo's future marketing strategy let us all know. And I'm sure we'd appreciate knowing the stock market prices for tomorrow too.

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