# Giving the devil his due

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-the-devil-his-due/312164>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 12, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-the-devil-his-due/312164 "2005-07-12T13:02:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-the-devil-his-due/312164/1 "2005-07-12T13:02:09Z")

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Dell Computers strikes a lot of us (myself included) as arrogant, and many other things bad.

However…

Yesterday, I put a call into tech support about my CPU fan making so much noise it worried me.

Ten minutes ago, DHL shows up in my driveway with the replacement unit. Dell shipped it overnight from Austin Texas to Brookfield CT, along with a prepaid label for returning the faulty unit.

I’m impressed and quite pleased.

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**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-the-devil-his-due/312164/2 "2005-07-12T13:36:42Z")

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Was there an extra container _for which to deposit your soul into_?!

- 'effin hell we need an **evil smiley**!

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**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-the-devil-his-due/312164/3 "2005-07-12T13:42:14Z")

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Weird. I haven’t heard of Dell support being useful to **anyone** in at least 4 or 5 years. Do you have any special dirt on Michael Dell?

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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-the-devil-his-due/312164/4 "2005-07-12T14:06:27Z")

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I’m as mystified as you guys. 😛

But I’ll take it!