“You’ve been told to stop calling here.  What part of “Stop Calling” did you not understand?”  This is what the person from Dell Warranty was told (along with a lot more) today when they called for what seemed to be the hundredth time.

Recently, my husband and I purchased a Dell laptop for my daughter who is opening a photography studio. We viewed it as an investment in her future business.  I went through the questions when I purchased the computer as to what it was going to be used for, who was going to use it,  and if it was going to be taken out of the country.    I’ve received the mailings for the extended warranty.  I’ve told the telemarketers on the phone that if I want to purchase the extended warranty I’ll purchase it through the mailers or will call Dell directly to take it.  Now they keep on calling and calling.

So today they called and they started asking the same questions that I’ve already answered several times before.  Today they just happened to catch me after I had been reading some comments on a forum that I have/had been following in which a blogger wondered if me and another blogger might be “gaming the site’s system. “ The blogger didn’t call us by name but by our town and dates that we had visited and referred to us as “Ghost Droppers”.   I knew I was one of the ones that he was referring to because while my town is mid-sized, I’m the only one that I’ve seen on the forum from my town and I’ve been following this blogger’s blog for a while now and knew I had been on his site on those dates that he’s wondering about.   I even remember visiting  and reading different posts on his site those days.  Now I’m not exactly sure what “Ghost Droppers” (that didn’t upset me as much) and “Gaming the system” was supposed to mean but it didn’t sound good and it highly TICKED me off and the telemarketer received the wrath of my ire.  This time I think the telemarketer understood exactly what “DO NOT CALL HERE ANYMORE!” meant because they got an earful.

Now back to this comment about “Gaming a system”.  If you are that person who made that comment on the forum and you are visiting here, I can assure you and everyone reading this… I don’t “game a system” and I highly resent the fact that anyone would even think that I might and I took it as a stab at my integrity. I am a Christian and have even gone so far as to sign Blogger Integrity to insure my commitment to my blogging and I believe in doing every thing above board and within the realms of what the rules and standards are for any forum or exchange that I sign up for and use.

I am not making any rash decisions about how this is going to affect my participation in this particular forum or any forum and do not believe in calling the forum or the blogger out by name.  I will need a cooling off period because to be quite honest — the more I think about it the madder I get.  My husband doesn’t understand why I’m so mad.  I’ve tried to explain it’s my integrity that has been commented on and I take that very seriously and while it was only my town that was mentioned, I knew it was referencing me and even though I probably was the only one that knew I still deem it as questioning my integrity.  I can tell you — I won’t be visiting any of that blogger’s blogs for a bit.  I’m not sure how long…but it will be a while.

I know this is not the planned topic which was going to be on recipes using green chiles.  A little later today I may go ahead and publish another post on that topic.  If not, I’ll publish two tomorrow.  Please if you have not signed up for the El Paso Chile Giveaway, you have one more day.  Please sign up at this link — Old El Paso Giveaway.

Till next time,

JT Locke
The Frugal Housewife