Awful company. These people are making large amounts of money from DSA and are delivering next to nothing.They emailed me asking if I wanted to upgrade, sending a list of mostly old model laptops. The prices were very expensive for upgrades, so I thought I would ask for a price on a current model. When they gave me the price, it was so expensive compared to Curry’s retail price, I would have been better off buying it retail. What’s worse is that DSA prices are supposed to be ex-vat. They say they are offering a good warranty, but these are available widely and not worth the extra they are charging.So I opted for the standard laptop and they sent something that is very cheap and wouldn’t last the length of my course. You don’t get a choice of laptop with the standard option, which is a shame.I ended up selling the laptop for what is was worth £200, just to get my contribution back, but tax payers are funding these laptops through DSA and Invate are purchasing the cheapest thing they can, to make as much money as possible out of DSA, forgetting that students have to use the devices.It’s a really awful system. DSA should have an approved list of devices, not simply a cpu/ram/screen size spec, to avoid people like Invate buying the cheapest thing they can get their hands on just to maximise profits.
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Invate are an IT company specialising in the supply of equipment to students at university under the DSA scheme.
