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The "Call in the next 10 minutes" & other dumb questions thread

Here is a chance to ask all those questions that you'd love love to have an answer to but considered the question too silly to ask.

Here's my first;

It concerns those TV infomercials when they get to the inevitable;

"But wait! Call in the next 10 minutes and we'll double your offer..."

If you call in 12 or 15 minutes time do you not get the deal?

My take would be that it's just a hook to get you to call before you forget about the Shamwow or whatever for a week. Therefore I'd guess that you do get the offer as I can't see that the phone operators have a list of all the air time slots for that commercial for every TV channel all over the USA and actually check. But I might be wrong...

I'm never going to buy anything from one of those adverts to find out for myself so does anyone have actual experience or the inside line?
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