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For the last few weeks, caller ID has been showing “800 Service” calls twice a day. Today, I finally decided to deal with it and answered. It was Dell trying to sell an extended warranty on a laptop that I recently purchased. The warranty price was about 30% the cost of the laptop! Do people actually buy these ripoffs? After she read the “in-home” warranty information that I already have, I asked if she had anything that wasn’t in the contract to tell me. Whatever….

So, the best part of this was the fake Minnesotan accent. She slipped a few times into her native Indian accent, but most of the time I was waiting for a “don’t cha know” at the end of every statement. I guess Dell figured that a regional accent was a better sales tool. Basically, I don’t buy anything from someone who cold calls me. I don’t want to encourage that behavior, don’t cha know.