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  • see that Lenovo has a pretty well equipped X390 on sale for $600, advertised as a savings of $1,100, probably liquidating in preparation for new model
  • desperately need a new laptop, order it Friday night
  • card is declined when I submit the order
  • check credit card account online, transaction is posted
  • no email from Lenovo confirming order
  • try to call customer service
  • only open during business hours because of the holiday or some bullshit, meaning that I have to wait until Monday morning to sort it out
  • wait for 45 minutes on hold this morning waiting to talk to someone
  • finally get Pajeet on the phone
  • tells me to call a different department at a different number
  • won't transfer me
  • hang up, call the other number
  • wait another half hour before a different Pajeet picks up the phone
  • describe the situation
  • he puts me on hold
  • get disconnected
  • call back
  • wait another 20 minutes
  • Pajeet #3 tells me the order didn't go through because I listed my mailbox at the UPS Store as the shipping address and they don't ship to PO boxes
  • even if this policy did make sense and if you consider a UPS Store a PO box (it's not), there wasn't a clear warning on the order page, nor did it kick it back as an invalid shipping address, NOR DOES THIS EXPLAIN WHY THEY CHARGED MY FUCKING CARD ANYWAY AND KICKED IT BACK AS DECLINED
  • tells me he can't change the shipping address on the order, best I can do is have him void the order, he can credit my card, and I'll have to order it again
  • credit may take up to a week to appear on my card
  • can't re-order it until the credit appears on my account because I'm a poor student and I don't have another $600 left on the card that I can spend
  • laptop is listed as a limited stock item, I just FUCKING KNOW it's going to be sold out by the time I can re-order it
tl;dr fuck lenovo and the horse they rode in on
 
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ForgedBlades said:
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  • see that Lenovo has a pretty well equipped X390 on sale for $600, advertised as a savings of $1,100, probably liquidating in preparation for new model
  • desperately need a new laptop, order it Friday night
  • card is declined when I submit the order
  • check credit card account online, transaction is posted
  • no email from Lenovo confirming order
  • try to call customer service
  • only open during business hours because of the holiday or some bullshit, meaning that I have to wait until Monday morning to sort it out
  • wait for 45 minutes on hold this morning waiting to talk to someone
  • finally get Pajeet on the phone
  • tells me to call a different department at a different number
  • won't transfer me
  • hang up, call the other number
  • wait another half hour before a different Pajeet picks up the phone
  • describe the situation
  • he puts me on hold
  • get disconnected
  • call back
  • wait another 20 minutes
  • Pajeet #3 tells me the order didn't go through because I listed my mailbox at the UPS Store as the shipping address and they don't ship to PO boxes
  • even if this policy did make sense and if you consider a UPS Store a PO box (it's not), there wasn't a clear warning on the order page, nor did it kick it back as an invalid shipping address, NOR DOES THIS EXPLAIN WHY THEY CHARGED MY FUCKING CARD ANYWAY AND KICKED IT BACK AS DECLINED
  • tells me he can't change the shipping address on the order, best I can do is have him void the order, he can credit my card, and I'll have to order it again
  • credit may take up to a week to appear on my card
  • can't re-order it until the credit appears on my account because I'm a poor student and I don't have another $600 left on the card that I can spend
  • laptop is listed as a limited stock item, I just FUCKING KNOW it's going to be sold out by the time I can re-order it
tl;dr fuck lenovo and the horse they rode in on
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Glad I've never bought a Lenovo product yet, if that's the level of BS I would have to put up with.
 
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  • card still wasn't credited this morning
  • sale ends today
  • call my mom, explain this situation, and convince her to let me use her card
  • submit order, card declined
  • get on live support chat with Pajeet #4 and he pushed the order through
  • get an email confirmation with an order number
  • fucking finally
  • get a call from my mom an hour later
  • her card was charged FOUR FUCKING TIMES
  • FOUR FUCKING TIMES
  • even though I only submitted the order once with a decline and once with Pajeet #4
  • why the fuck did they charge the card when it game me a declined error
  • why the fuck were there two charges that appeared completely out of nowhere
  • holy fucking shit
  • spend half an hour in support chat with Pajeet #5 pretending to be my mother trying to get them to drop three of the authorizations
  • won't come off the account for 1-2 business days
  • $1,900 wiped off my mom's checking account for the next three days given the holiday tomorrow, she's understandably pissed
tl;dr FUCK LENOVO DO NOT BUY INTO THE THINKPAD MEME HOLY SHIT

Taking on bets on what goes wrong next. I'm guessing it gets lost in the void that is UPS.
 
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Overheard in Kiwi Farms thread after recent post: “He got me,” @ForgedBlades said of Lenovo's fraud over him. "That f***ing Lenovo boomed me." @ForgedBlades added, “He’s so good,” repeating it four times. He then said he wanted to add Lenovo to the list of companies he considers to be lolcows this summer.
 
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SO MUCH COLOR IN AFRICA AAAAHHHHH HAHAHAHHA WHOAAAAA IT IS 2019 AT THIS TIME HAHAHAHHA!!!!!
 
@ForgedBlades Buy from good companies, or just buy second-hand off eBay. If it's not worth the money, then eBay's imbalanced, overzealous buyer's protection policies will shield you from basically any kind of dissatisfaction while you scoop things up from people who might be desperate to sell or don't really know what they're doing.

I find that going to eBay before I buy anything directly from a company will save me enough money that I'm comfortable spending NASA prices on hardware for my tower as well as a fun little fortune on a nice laptop. It's a way of being financially strategic; you look wherever you can for the weakest target with the same reward so that you can spend a smaller amount in anticipation of something worthy of a greater sacrifice. It gives you the extra steps ahead of the game you need to afford the loss of a few.

And when it's something mass-produced and even slightly dated, you're going to find better deals if you look. That's a standard rule.
 
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@ForgedBlades Buy from good companies, or just buy second-hand off eBay. If it's not worth the money, then eBay's imbalanced, overzealous buyer's protection policies will shield you from basically any kind of dissatisfaction while you scoop things up from people who might be desperate to sell or don't really know what they're doing.

I find that going to eBay before I buy anything directly from a company will save me enough money that I'm comfortable spending NASA prices on hardware for my tower as well as a fun little fortune on a nice laptop. It's a way of being financially strategic; you look wherever you can for the weakest target with the same reward so that you can spend a smaller amount in anticipation of something worthy of a greater sacrifice. It gives you the extra steps ahead of the game you need to afford the loss of a few.

And when it's something mass-produced and even slightly dated, you're going to find better deals if you look. That's a standard rule.
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I tend to use eBay first before anyone else online.
 
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I tend to use eBay first before anyone else online.
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I guess the joke is kind of on me, here, because I actually spend a fuck of a lot of money on eBay. It's very useful for buying things at 'fell-off-a-truck' prices, but it's also just as useful for collectors' niches. I've spent several hundred dollars on 78 RPM discs since November, and that's on eBay alone, which is insane to say out loud. But all I have to do is turn the table one more time and Blind Lemon Jefferson tells me clear over that Paramount hiss exactly why it was worth it.

Money alone is just a tool, and is meaningless in of itself. The conservatism should only extend as far as it suits your interests, which ought to be necessities foremost (including preparation for the future, if say... you want to own some property outright one day), and then whatever else is desirable enough that you should acquire it. The restraint matters so far as whether you're buying something that has personal, social, or economic value sufficient enough to justify having it, whether it's something you can afford above many other things, or whether it's something that can be gotten for a better price. I've never understood people who save money for no practical purpose, don't really have a plan except to make more money, and hold its value above all else. It doesn't even seem sane enough to be materialistic in proper.
 
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I'm bothering to try to stick to a New Year's resolution I made for myself, to lose weight. It'll be tough, but I hope I can keep myself under less than 2000 calories a day, perhaps even go further than that if I must. Also need to go out on walks again, that helped me a lot.
 
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