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Sticker add/remove option when purchasing computer.

500 points posted to New Product Ideas, Operating Systems by twocows 08/11/07

I hear a lot of people these days debating over the stickers. I say we should leave it entirely up to the customer. Create an option where the user can decide if he wants an OS sticker, a processor sticker, both, some other stickers, or just no stickers at all. On the customization page, a check-box system could be used, for instance.

undead999
08/11/07		 HP used to have an add sticker option, think they charge a buck for this. i dont know if they still offer this.
jmxz
08/12/07		 .chris: "when? I never saw it. "

Then it seems you probably never looked.

Here's an older idea about HP's customer-selectable stickers:
http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/65965
it contains a link to the HP configurator that lets you choose stickers too.

Note also that their pulldown lets you select a non-Windows OS too.
jordann
08/13/07		 They could just include the stickers on the side.
limulus
08/19/07		 Doesn't Microsoft *require* OEMs to attach the Windows "Certificate of Authenticity" to each computer?
jmxz
08/19/07		 @limulus: "Doesn't Microsoft *require* OEMs to attach the Windows "Certificate of Authenticity" to each computer?"

It depends on the specific contract with the OEM, no? HP seems to have negotiated a contract where they can give a choice (as shown in the link above).

Dell seems to have chosen an option where Microsoft gets to glue physical advertisements (what these stickers are) on Dell computers.

If Dell really needs to use the body of the machine as advertising space, I really wish they would have picked any advertiser's bumper-sticker over Microsoft's - because, say, a political ad wouldn't be as misleading and consumers would more easily recognize the sticker as the paid-for advertisement that it is..
jmxz
08/19/07		 This Idea says nothing about which section of the Dell web site this Idea is for. And whether Dell chose to negotiate an advertising sticker placement on home models that's different than their optional advertising sticker on business models - it still shows that Dell can negotiate add-free contracts if they wanted to.
twocows
08/27/07		 I hear a lot of people these days debating over the stickers. I say we should leave it entirely up to the customer. Create an option where the user can decide if he wants an OS sticker, a processor sticker, both, some other stickers, or just no stickers at all. **********On the customization page,********** a check-box system could be used, for instance.

It says very clearly what part of the site it is for, not that it matters. Dell would be the ones to figure out where to put it, anyway.
 
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