Payments?Post Date: 2009-10-10 |
Post Reply 
|
| Author | |
Natsu 
Newbie 
Joined: 10 Oct 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 31 |
 Quote Reply
 Topic: Payments?Posted: 10 Oct 2009 at 3:03am |
|
Has Digitalstorm ever thought of doing financing their computers?
Edited by Natsu - 10 Oct 2009 at 3:04am |
|
 |
|
|
EdH63
DS Veteran 
Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1826 |
Quote Reply
Posted: 10 Oct 2009 at 9:07am |
|
Never
|
|
|
|
|
DST4ME
DS ELITE 
Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 36758 |
Quote Reply
Posted: 10 Oct 2009 at 10:59am |
|
Yes they have thought about it, but its not something that makes sense for them for now.
|
|
|
|
|
EdH63
DS Veteran
Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1826 |
Quote Reply
Posted: 10 Oct 2009 at 11:07am |
|
Never (sarcasm)
|
|
|
|
|
Tugmaster
Newbie
Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 30 |
Quote Reply
Posted: 11 Oct 2009 at 12:19am |
|
Most geeks that come here are true geeks and have $2k+ dollars to blow on a computer. They take pride in their jobs and their computers. Digital Storm doesnt want the dell, HP, crowd that needs to finance a computer in order to purchase it. Its like buying a lamborghini versus a ford. You finance a ford and pay cash money for a lamborghini. I personally dont want to deal with the ford crowd myself because average consumers are complete morons. Also who wants to deal with the default rate now with unemployment at roughly 10%. I know I wouldnt. Edited by Tugmaster - 11 Oct 2009 at 12:20am |
|
|
i7 [email protected](3.67ghz turbo)
6G Mushkin DDR3 Ram 2x Nvidia 275 in SLI 750 PC Power and Cooling PSU MSI X58M Asestek Liquid Cooling Haf 922 Case 22' ASUS 1920x1080 |
|
|
|
|
sdelu
Groupie 
Joined: 05 May 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 304 |
Quote Reply
Posted: 11 Oct 2009 at 2:58pm |
There are very few "true geeks" that come through here. Most are average gamers and "average geeks," if you will, that buy average computers. And yes, a 2000 dollar computer from digital storm is an average computer to "true geeks." In fact, I bet "true geeks" wouldn't even come to digital storm because they'd just build their rigs themselves. So maybe "mediumish geeks" would be more accurate. Also, most people that come through looking for 6k+ computers are worse informed than the "average consumer," just lumping in all the expensive sh*t and think it's the best. Digital Storm DOES want the dell and HP crowd. Why do you think they have the prebuilts? You do know the aim of a business is to make a profit, right? If they said "no, we only make computers for TRUE GEEKS" they would have died long ago. The only reason they don't have financing is because they're still too small of a company. |
|
|
|
|
Natsu
Newbie
Joined: 10 Oct 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 31 |
Quote Reply
Posted: 11 Oct 2009 at 11:30pm |
|
Ah indeed sedlu thats a good point. I don't see why Digital storm would not want the hp / dell people to make more money ; /.
Edited by Natsu - 11 Oct 2009 at 11:33pm |
|
|
|
|
Tugmaster
Newbie
Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 30 |
Quote Reply
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 at 12:08am |
I dont think either of you understood my post. What I meant by the dell crowd was individuals wanting the cheapest computer possible and the whole assembly line. I purchased a dell 2-3 yrs with a 19 in monitor for $400. It was a duo core 2.33ghz with 2gigs of ram and a 160gb hardrive. Nothing fancy but it did the job and was cheap. What is the profit on that? If you are like dell and can make less of a profit on more systems its ok, but DS is to small currently to pursue that. I dont consider Dell a competitor of DS to be honest. Both going after different customers. If someone wants a cheap system they go to dell. If you want an afforable system, quality parts, and a company to back it up you go with DS.
Dell does have alienware which is the closer to DS I guess in terms of being competive if you can call it that. I do agree with what you said about the geeks that come here or purchase here.
|
|
|
i7 [email protected](3.67ghz turbo)
6G Mushkin DDR3 Ram 2x Nvidia 275 in SLI 750 PC Power and Cooling PSU MSI X58M Asestek Liquid Cooling Haf 922 Case 22' ASUS 1920x1080 |
|
|
|
|
EdH63
DS Veteran
Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1826 |
Quote Reply
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 at 7:53am |
|
Rate fees eat into the profits of a company. Especially American Express. Small company, cost of product and gross profit.
|
|
|
|
|
Alex
Admin Group 
Digital Storm Supervisor 
Joined: 04 Jun 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 16314 |
Quote Reply
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 at 1:39pm |
|
We do offer financing, but, only for local customers.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post Reply
|
| Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You can vote in polls in this forum |
About Digital Storm
Contact Information
Facility Tour
Financing
Buy Now, Pay Later
Downloads
GSA Schedule
Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy
Request Help
Call: 1-866-817-8676
(Hours 9AM-5PM PST)
Topic Options