[weaksauce]

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.

Take the positive out of the negative.

You're now well aware of what "not to do" the next time around.

Very much so, yeah. I'll stick to my comfort zone until I get more experience. Thanks for helping me throughout the whole ordeal though.

Gonna SE one of the new RTX cards, so I'll be around

if you know your post office well, you can come in with say 4 big ish boxes to send in a big bag, scan them all and get the receipts (including your return laptop for example) put them back into the bag every time you scan.. usually they will point to a window for you to put your boxes into..because your boxes are big they will ask to leave under it or round the corner etc.. then you simply walk over to that window and only take out 3 of your boxes and place those under the counter or wherever (they never look at what you're doing as they are handling the next customer), keeping the receipt and essentially sending nothing with proof of receipt. Another thing to consider is they would probably keep CCTV for a month in those places (in the v unlikely even of a cctv investigation), so wait for a month just to be sure and ask them have they received it yet? This has worked with a number of different stores for me with obvious easy refunds after persisting it was lost in the returns process.

no need to go through all that lengthy process