[saint28]

Thought I should make an update to this particular SE. Oooh boy, did I underestimate how challenging this would actually be. It was a lot of back and forth between the rep that was assigned to me and myself. About a solid month of emails that went nowhere. Everything was going smoothly, all of the corrupting and misguiding. Then the rep was deathly insistent on sending in the laptop, saying it was ok to send a laptop with a bulging battery. Even after mentioning that it was getting worse and worse, he kept insisting.

After feeling a bit lost and hopeless, I gave up and stopped replying. Took a break from the scene to reflect, abandoning this thread. Sorry to dissapoint those who were wanting to see this succeed, haha. I gave up right before the height of coronavirus and am kicking myself for that. It would've been much easier to play off not wanting to go to the post office then. In hindsight, maybe I shouldn't have tried this with my very limited SE'ing experience. Every failure is a chance to learn and grow, I guess. To anyone wanting to attempt to SE Lenovo, learn from my mistakes and capitalize on the climate of our world right now.