{"id":7694,"date":"2010-01-06T11:44:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T15:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=7694"},"modified":"2010-01-06T11:44:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T15:44:55","slug":"my-last-dell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=7694","title":{"rendered":"My Last Dell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered a new PC from Dell last night: one of these cute little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/us\/en\/corp\/desktops\/inspiron-zino-hd\/pd.aspx?refid=inspiron-zino-hd&s=corp\">Zino<\/a> things. But, apparently I screwed up and ordered it with Vista 32, instead of Windows 7 x64, like I wanted. So, I immediately called Dell's order support to see if I could change it. They were closed for the evening - which seems like an odd thing to be, since their order support is definitely not based in the US. <em>Ahem<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So, I called them this AM, got one person who transferred me to another person, who immediately hung up on me after hearing my question. I called back, got another person, who transferred me to someone else, who told me that the order was already in production. I asked when it was expected to ship. \"January 29th\". I ordered it less than 12 hours ago, it's going to be in production for <em>three weeks<\/em>, and it's too late to change anything ? Yes. Can I cancel it? No. <\/p>\n<p>So, I hung up on <em>him<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I've got a room full of Dells, everywhere I look, I see Dell insignias. But this will be my last. I understand they have systems and processes they need to follow, but if it's not shipping for three weeks, there's no way that PC is anywhere near the stage where they're putting the OS onto it. At this point, it's nothing more than a few rows in some database.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered a new PC from Dell last night: one of these cute little Zino things. But, apparently I screwed up and ordered it with Vista 32, instead of Windows 7 x64, like I wanted. So, I immediately called Dell's order support to see if I could change it. They were closed for the evening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}