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¿Question #2332?
kennyb: Have you ever phoned technical support, only to realize, after talking to them, that the answer was so obvious and was staring you in the face..

ocdspectrum: Always try restarting your computer before you call.
Woelf: Have you tried rebooting?
Caerid: Nope.
theoperat0r: Negative.
ca_squires: Yes
beerbear: I always hafta call em when I set up a wireless network. It is a minimum one hour call. I hate these damn things.
Jatoha: no
Quietus: No, but I've had that when asking for help in-person very frequently.
vandemonium: Yes, it is Murphy's law.
littlebrothertimmy: No.
Hendal: no
LordDarkSith: I never need technical support
Harkonnen13: Yeah
kathleenryan: No. When I call tech support, I really need help and am usually on the phone for hours.
Polgara: no, i've been the tech support though, and those customers are annoying
DKahnt: yes
ZeroZilla: Nope, my problems tend to be involved.
ThePilot: No
Gibbo: No
diemacher: No
DHEK: Maybe. I can't recall though, but it sounds like something like that could have happened to me.
Brentoon: I work at technical support...did you call about an hour ago? (I don't really work at technical support...it was a joke, lighten up)
DGSI: LOL..too many to count in my early years
el_mpfive: yup
Geosphere: yes
buffalospynovel: No. Follow the rhyme: Tech support is the last resort.
POvidiusNaso: No, but it's one of my great fears.
MightyMike: sure
greenpawn: no
ZiggyZambo: No, I've never phoned tech support.
echdareez: Really can't tell : I'm just that brilliant and such a genius myself that only has one question : "What's technical support?"
Thesp: Yes.
SisyphusX: Nope.
Big BabOOn: of course
jentinma: Many times. Even after double checking. Then again, I have talked to some technical support people that couldn't do anything more than what I had already tried.
OzGamer: No, but I've asked colleagues which is even more embarassing
mrspank: Unfortunately... yes.
miyazakigrognard: Yes.
zenchristo: No
WatchmanX2000: yes
ct_cruiser: yes,...I mean no...I mean....what was the question??
bigbadsteve: no, but i have realized that those people are idiots
Beowulf: No. I always exhaust every resource before resigning myself to tech support. Usually my first request is "Please forward me to the second level technician."
brainrob: No
BiscuitTheCat: no
Tushratta: Yes.
djflippy: Don't think so.
toulouse: yep
Loquutus: They call that an eye-dee-ten-tee error. ID10T
Unitbuster: I've phoned technical support and, after being put on hold for an hour by a guy who barely spoke English, I realized that I wanted to break something.
mrbeankc: yes
Yollege: no
puffinge: nope
EDS Teioh: nope. I am smrt.
scriptorum: No, I don't like to call tech support, I try to figure it out for myself.
yossarians: nope
ValJor: No
Mikebegeta: only once
notquitekarpov: Of course.
Johan: No
sourwyrm: yes i have
WasQ: yes... It wasn't a funny experience (lucky not to hear the laughs by the phone...)
CharlieWonka: No
TMJJS: no
arkibet: yes. I was just about to post in BGG How-To "How do I create a geeklist" and was previewing my message when I noticed the option on the sidebar.
maka: yes!
The Unbeliever: 42
Ludocrazy: Many many times
Gecko23: Sure. I've also spent an entire week debugging a program to find a simple typo. Isn't technology grand?
xlorp: I tell them to file it under user error with a capital L.
KnobDoctor: No, I usually call them and they can't figure it out, either.
heli: sure
SteveK2: oh yes
Lord_Prussian: Yes
Ivan: No. I only phone if I'm really in trouble.
skrutsch: Nope.
djlg: No.
Flyspeck23: No.
2amp: no
viogression: Yes
snoozefest: no
Jern: No
skelebone: Sure not. When I call tech support, it's a major fuck-up.
batman: yes
Spielguy: Ja
chaddyboy_2000: Yeah.
CDRodeffer: No
gnomehome: No
jttm: Nope
Spielfreak: no
AlorielLelyn: Usually when I phone tech support, the computer is no longer bootable because of some catastrophic failure of some key component, like the CPU burned out, or the hard drive just decided to try skipping rocks along it's platters... So, umm.... no.