Save My Laptop

Hi, My name is Mark and i live in the UK, i saved up for a laptop since last year and used some christmas money and birthday money from christmas 06 and my birthday 07 to buy a £450 lenovo N100 laptop. I recieved the laptop and everything was working fine until after about two weeks it crashed and would fail to turn back on again! I sent it to lenovo to be repaired as it was still under warranty they fixed it for free, However they said that the screen was cracked! It definately had not been cracked when i sent it so must have been damaged in the post! they have sent the laptop back to me with a cracked lcd screen. i have now attempted to claim from the post office: it was sent insured (they sent someone round to look at it and said they would put in the claim. after i came back from holiday there was a letter saying I could not claim as the packaging was unavailable to view to inspect if it had been damaged!!! i phoned them but they will not budge!!!! please visit: http://www.freewebs.com/savemylaptop


Thank you Mark.

ps. does anyone know how much it will cost, i have looked around and it seems to be around £300

 

How did you send it to Lenovo? Perhaps that may offer some assistance. The Better Business Bureau or its UK equivalent may be another option. Exactly what did they say when you told them it was not cracked when you sent it in?

 

well initially they said to send it in just a box! but my dad had ordered it for me from dabs and we still had the original packaging so we put it in that. they said that the would charge us for the repair - we had to get a quote and if we didnt use the quote then it would cost us £60 so we didnt bother. we contacted the citizens advise and they said we should have took it back to where we brought it from before sendng it to lenovo but it is to late!

 

i'm sorry to hear your loss, but instead of going out begging for money, go get a job at a supermarket or something, it's much less painless and you'll save up enough money in about a month.

 

i have tried alot of places will only take 16 year olds and above doing anything possible - thats legal to get some money

 

I still don't get it. When you said the notebook wasn't cracked when you sent it, what was their reply?

 

just show them their commercial... the one in which some guy rode a bike on the R61 and jumped up and down.

ask them how can the screen be cracked if the commercial is true??

I start to realize that the whole 'premium build quality' thing is just bull****.

 

For every clicking sound my keyboard makes writing this message, it dies children from starvation, illness, abuse etc etc.

They have not even any opportunity to write anything on the Internet to make themselves heard so people help them.

I would MUCH rather help such people.

Using this forum to begging for money...

Pity for your loss, if that is what really happened. Hope you are not one of those scammers who want to sound innocent and fool people.

... A small thought to all the poor ones who died during this short time I wrote this small message...

 

You know what's bull****? The fact that you didn't even know the OP doesn't own a ThinkPad. He's talking about the N100. Thanks for your comment, though. Nice try.

 

Well paradoxer, in fairness to the OP, at least he didn't offer reps for cash, which would have been even more hideous.

 

Yes, so shame on you too, paradoxer. You deride the OP on grounds of moral priority- why don't you just ignore him and go help the starving people in third-world countries already? You marginalize the suffering with your meaningless discourse. Actions speak louder than words.

He has no reps to offer.

 

hmmm. well, at least one lesson learned, DO only send things by certified mail with insurance. I put 3,000.00 insurance on my laptop back to Lenovo on return. It only cost something like 22.00. Definitely worth it for peace of mind.

 

Who the HELL are you to judge me like that?
When you look at yourself in the mirror, do you feel like a God or what?

Actually, I donate some money to DIFFERENT organizations EVERY year. My mother worked for the Red Cross for 14 years. Yes, my small contribution is not so much, but it is at least SOMETHING.

And what have you done for the world? Now, tell me again, what did you mean by "Actions speak louder than words"??

Pfffff...

Oh, I forgot; your highness, why didn´t you ignore MY post since you know how handle such BS in this forum?

Can someone close this thread please? This is pretty much off the topic.

 

damn people calm down... first playmaker, you are way out of line, im sure paradoxer was only giving a suggestion/ healthy advice and i agree that the OP should not beg for money. He should earn it himself. There was nothing that Paradox said that was "deriding."



yea close the thread

 

What's with the lame "Save My Laptop" site? It's not even like you spent much on your laptop lol. I find it a little melodramatic. Plenty of people have had problems but they don't create blogs about it. Maybe I should sign the guestbook eh?

I have to agree with paradoxer, it's bad taste and wrong to come on here and ask for donations. I resent the special treatment the OP feels he's entitled to through his coy post. The OP needs to learn his lesson: if it's important, ship with insurance.

Before my freshman year of college I shipped a desktop computer to my out of state school. I had speakers, monitor, and computer all shipped without insurance. The computer was beat so hard in transit that the processor and HSF jumped out of the socket flattening the pins and rendering a $700 processor useless. My 15k 74GB Raptor was also dead. My video card was jolted so hard that it broke out of its PCIe socket and was bouncing around inside the case. I spent 2000 on the computer a couple months before and it was completely destroyed in shipment. The monitor was also beat up, but didn't crack. Instead it developed lines of dead pixels. The speakers made it though find though. I ended up selling the entire system for salvage and went with a laptop instead. By the way USPS was the shipper who destroyed my computer and it was sent via USPS 2-3 day priority but took 8 days (they needed extra time to play soccer with it). In reality I have no idea how it got so messed up in transit.

Thinking about my experience, I find it distasteful that the OP would come on here with such a petty problem asking for donations. You need to take responsibility for your mistakes and stop asking other people to make up for them. Since you're only 16, consider this an early life lesson for later adulthood. OP, you learned your lesson, ship with insurance. I do now.

 

There are 3 rules when dealing with playmaker.

1. He is always right, and therefore is entitled to be derisive.

2. If he is wrong, he has better rep than you and has therefore contributed more, which makes him entitled to continue being derisive.

3. If you have more rep than playmaker see rule number 1

 

I would also say that people shouldn't donate because the OP needs to learn to take responsibility for his own actions. People on the internet are not going to fix your problems. You should not expect them to do so. You might have been inspired by other people who were able to get donations over the internet. Many of those people had a worthy cause which yours is not. As it stands, this is your problem and you need to fix it off of the internet and this forum.

 

Total blashpemy, to the point that im laughing on the ground.

What are you? his slave, his royal highness? I only gave out my opinion, if you believe paradox is wrong, and playmaker is right, then so be it. Give your opinion and let it be. But your post, if its not a absolute JOKE, does not make any sense and attacks me for giving an opinon. For the love of god, please tell me that you are joking.

And second of all, our little heated disscussion has nothing to DO with ****ING reps, reps only concern computer knowledge, experience, and has nothing to do with morals, philosophy, etc.

Playmaker has more reps, and if we were talking about computer stuff, he would one-up me, but this has nothing to do with technology....

 

I think attacking each other doesn't help anyone and I agree with Kerb that shipping insurance is for preventing these kind of problems .
and I think Stewie is right reps has nothing to do with anything else and as all of us can see how some people like Stallen, Playmaker and .... took their time and with help of their knowledge and experience made very useful threads that benefits all of us and i am sure REPs are for these reasons to thank them and help newbie to know who is guiding them and their knowledge . Lets keep our forum clean and full of respect as you all know this is one of the best websites that other sites refer to us and I knwo some people who joined us recently that have no rep yet but they are full of experience and knowledge

 

there's starving kids in africa dude, you cant expect anyone to donate to your "fix my laptop" fund.

 

I think TPA might have said it as sarcasm. I also agree, this has nothing to do with Lenovo. Lenovo would happily ship him back his laptop without fixing the screen so it's not like they're holding it hostage. There's nothing that can be said against Lenovo in that regard.

I don't agree with Playmaker's stance of letting it be and if you don't like it don't donate. It is board member's jobs to discourage behavior that isn't conductive to the forum. Asking for money because the OP didn't get insurance is certainly not something I would encourage. Like I said, he needs to accept that other people wont just solve his money problems. It's a good lesson, and I feel some people think they can come to the internet with their money problems and people will fix them.

That leads to paradoxer's and fluxion's point which is that this is not a worthy cause. This teenager doesn't sound impoverished and why should we help him; just because he can come on the internet, create a web page and ask for money? It sounds like the OP is far from helpless. There are other people who are far far more deserving than the OP and I think that was the point.

To wrap it up, I think the OP's parents should step up to the plate and help him out. If I were his parents I would absorb the cost and talk to him about getting insurance in the first place. Either that or give him an interest free loan to be paid off whenever he is able to. Or make him do chores/shopping to make up for it. It's not unreasonable considering that his parents paid for the laptop in the first place. The OP should learn that stuff happens and this is why they invented insurance and that sometimes there is no easy fix.

Did I miss anything? I'm not sure what else needs to be said.

 

Well put xnviews.

Btw, speaking of Reps and "Playmaker":

Is it me or does his Rep Power status look a bit strange? I know I am fairly new to this board, but it says 0 at the moment - although there are 3 boxes.

Edit: ignore my question above. It seems he has been banned (or so it says under his username anyways)

 

I have a rep power 3, I've been on this board for like 2-3 months and I have no idea what rep power is or what it's for lol.

 

I think I can enlighten you:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=64155

And to keep it in the reputation spirit, according to the thread I just sent you, I have been helpful and informative to you. Hence you should now add to my reputation

Seriously though, the link above explains it all. It's a pat on the shoulder and user seriousness/reliability thing. Unfortunately some users might have a lot of Rep Power and might have posted a lot, but it doesn't necessarily mean that they conduct themselves in a respectful manner.

 

Ah well rep doesnt mean anything if you are banned.

 

thread closed

 

You thought I was defending him??????

Mr Johnny Playmaker was knowledgeable and helped many people including me but he lacked tact, and common decency.

Definitely Sarcasm!

 

Not quite yet. You don't have anything else to say?

 

Apart from this thread's most interesting discussion of morals and ethics, it also illuminates, thanks of JaJa, the subject of reps, colored bars, and so forth, none of which made sense to me before. So, thank ya kindly on that score.

As for the OP's non-rebuttal (and eagerness to close the thread) I think (his) silence is golden at this point.

 

Ok people, I think Stewie is right and we should all calm down.

It was fun and necessary to see some sarcasm thorugh the posts.

I think that some people here learned things, or at least, they have something to think about. It would be sad otherwise.

I hope that this post will be the last nail in the coffin so we can bury it.

 

Well Mark, it actually sounds like you might be under 16. I'm sorry for the damage to your laptop. Did you purchase any insurance when you shipped it? I don't think you ever did mention who you used to ship it. Often times, private shippers will allow claims on damaged goods even if it is not insured. I would also have your dad to all the talking. Nobody will take a young teenager seriously or believe what they have to say. I tell my kids the same thing...Mow some lawns, ask neighbors if they need any errands or chores to be done to earn money. Ask your parents the same thing and earn some extra allowance. You might be surprised at how much you can earn.

As far as the rest of you and you know who you are...

I am ashamed that you would treat a young kid like this. It is apparent he is too young to even get a normal job. He was wrong to ask for money here, but that doesn't mean he should be chastised for it. Give the kid a break, correct him and offer sound advice! More than likely, he comes on here to find the knowledge base that you all have to offer. Instead, he gets slammed. Shame on you.

Edit:
I want to clarify that the message above is only inteded for the targeted audiences. Not everyone who has posted on this thread.

 

One more thing to consider...
It may be possible to get accidental damage coverage on this still. It isn't exactly the most honest way about it, though.

 

Oh how could you!
You revived the thread that sounded the death knell for Playmaker!
And everyone has worked so hard to scour his presence from this forum.
Even his most useful threads have been usurped by moderators to erase him.
This exhumation is most unfortunate.

 

could everyone please stop arguing i have edited the 1st post t update with recent events!