Computer retail outlet PC World have had to put the kibosh on their free laptop deal with Orange, after enthusiastic punters exhausted their supply of laptops in under a month.
PC World apparently had “tens of thousands” of laptops to be given away as part of the deal, and now they’re all gone. Like TalkTalk and RedTen Internet before them, the two companies seemingly failed to anticipate the level of customer demand.
When the deal was still ongoing, customers who signed up to the 2Mbps Orange Starter Broadband service in PC World stores were able to either take the laptop, a not-too-shabby Advent 7211 with a 40GB hard drive, or trade off its store value of £350 for any other laptop sold in the shop.
The deal ended with next to no fanfare at all. A scant blurb at the PC World website read thus: “We’re Sorry. This deal has now ended. You can still take advantage of our great laptop deals at PC World…”
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