{"id":7342,"date":"2019-08-19T13:20:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T17:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=7342"},"modified":"2019-08-21T14:36:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:36:26","slug":"the-results-of-the-call-with-lenovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2019\/08\/19\/the-results-of-the-call-with-lenovo\/","title":{"rendered":"The results of the call with Lenovo&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nervous as fuck, about the following&#8230;<br \/>\n-Failing to explain the problem(s) right.<br \/>\n-That Zagro might be right about the warranty (even though I should be in it, the Rift S may&#8217;ve fucked me over).<br \/>\n-If they&#8217;ll be willing to send a shipping box, but ask &#8220;do you have a printer for the shipping label?&#8221; (like Newegg)<br \/>\nAnyway&#8230; here we go.<\/p>\n<p>Called the Monday-Friday number, getting confused of the options and hit a random button. Luckily for me it was what I needed to get ahold of someone.. who I can (you guessed it, barely understand). What&#8217;s worse, the person could barely understand <em>me<\/em>. Went through hell just to give the person my name. Then came the part when I was asked for my serial number.. woo boy, that was fun.<br \/>\nLuckily I still have the box the headset came in (and it has the serial number). Was asked to take a picture of it with my phone and then send it to a special email. Between this<br \/>\ntime, I was asked to explain the issue (which I did to the best of my abilities). But with the person having a hard time hearing me, I&#8217;m not sure if it was all explained. It doesn&#8217;t seem like troubleshooting steps were even taken to account.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nWith that done, I was placed on hold (while the person checked the picture I took). After the hold, the person gave me the actual serial number (which is much shorter than what the headset shows). Then I was told something about the warranty expiring (it wasn&#8217;t that clear to make out).. but what <em>did<\/em> was being told I would have to take it up to somewhere like Best Buy and get it repaired. I&#8217;m all &#8220;WOAH Woah wait.. why can&#8217;t I send it to you guys?&#8221; Was told about the warranty again. Told the time it did, but again it wasn&#8217;t clear enough to me.<br \/>\n&#8230;But a saving grace happened, when the person asked &#8220;wait, do you have the receipt?&#8221; YES, from Amazon! Told them what day I ordered it, and was told to send a picture of that too. A much longer wait, and then was told &#8220;we will extend your warranty&#8221;.<br \/>\nTHANK YOU, ZAGRO for reminding me about the receipt last night!! \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n<p>So as for RMAing the headset for repairs (if it&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">truly<\/span> what&#8217;s been causing the issue), at one time I was going to pay $35 for a box and a shipping label (would had been $15 if I used my own box). So they&#8217;re charging $20 extra.. for just the shipping box.<br \/>\nThen I got told that I would be called back in a half an hour, so the person can speak to their manager to get the warranty extended. And as expected, I got a call back from them. And then the bad news started pouring in&#8230;<br \/>\n1. They can <em>not<\/em> send me a shipping box, as it&#8217;s not a laptop. So I decided to put the headset in its box.<br \/>\n2. The one that will be handling the shipping (FedEx)&#8230; I will have to go to the local office in my city and drop it off&#8211; they do NOT do pickup. <strong>FUCK!!! <\/strong>My parents are not going to like this. \ud83d\ude23<br \/>\n3. After paying $16.05 (includes state tax) for the shipping label, I was asked if I have a printer. Said no, so was told to ask the people in FedEx to print it out for me.<\/p>\n<p>Right, that&#8217;s about it. Was told that as soon as I send it to FedEx (and they&#8217;ll send it to Lenovo), it&#8217;ll take 9 business days to get there. I pray I can convince my parents to take me after my birthday, because I don&#8217;t wanna do it <em>on<\/em> my birthday.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Guess who&#8217;s stuck with the headset now? ..This guy! Father took me there, which was hard to find. We search nearly 10 minutes trying to find the damn thing. I have to then ask some business where in the HELL it is, and was told it&#8217;s in our Walgreens.<br \/>\nGo to our Walgreens and take the package in. Was told to go to their Photo<br \/>\ndepartment, which I do.<br \/>\nAfter pulling out my phone and showing the worker there the shipping label and asking them if they could print it out for me, the worker tells me &#8220;sorry, we don&#8217;t have a way to print it out. You have to go to a FedEx Store.&#8221; Asked &#8220;I thought <strong><em>this<\/em><\/strong> was a FedEx Store!&#8221; Says &#8220;This is a FedEx Drop-off location.&#8221; Ask &#8220;well where is there a FedEx Store in my city?&#8221; They check their phone and say &#8220;not in this city, but the neighboring ones&#8221;.<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t know how fucking PISSED I am at Lenovo right now. Forced to go home. All of that time wasted, dealing with a 102*F heat index on top of it.<br \/>\nWhen I got home I called Lenovo back.. guess who I ran into; the woman I originally talked to who I can barely understand (and who can barely understand me). Explained what happened and how I just &#8220;want my $16.05 back. I&#8217;m done with this crap&#8221;. But also when I asked &#8220;is there a way you all could allow me to use UPS instead, because we have a store here.&#8221;, at first she said yes, then she said &#8220;they won&#8217;t accept the package&#8221;. WTF?! Just give me my fucking money back already! And no I didn&#8217;t use those words, but I came<br \/>\nclose.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;ll be back in my account in 5-7 days (not &#8220;5-7 business days&#8221;), and if it&#8217;s not then just call my bank.<\/p>\n<p>UGH.. what a headache this issue has given me!! But I almost feel I should actually send it to Zagro (find a way to pay for the postage) and have <em>him<\/em> test it. I trust him more than Lenovo right now.<br \/>\nOne other thing (not that it matters anymore, but..), the warranty has been extended from February 25th to September 21st. And when asking &#8220;could I just get a replacement headset?&#8221;, the person told me the window for that has been closed 10 months ago (ends the month after purchase.. that&#8217;s just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">awesome<\/span>). \ud83d\ude12 The warranty I have now is for repair only. So even if they really wanted to send me a replacement, they can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT2: It&#8217;s the day after my birthday. Got an email verifying I want a full refund of the $16.05 they took from me, and it should be in my bank within 3-5 business days (aka no sooner than the 28th).<br \/>\nWhat burns is what it shows at the bottom of the email;<br \/>\n<em>Status: Solved- Fixed on first response<\/em><br \/>\nNo, you did not fix my issue.. because you fuckers want to use FedEx instead of UPS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nervous as fuck, about the following&#8230; -Failing to explain the problem(s) right. -That Zagro might be right about the warranty (even though I should be in it, the Rift S may&#8217;ve fucked me over). -If they&#8217;ll be willing to send &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2019\/08\/19\/the-results-of-the-call-with-lenovo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-drama","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7342"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7353,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions\/7353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}