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My T410 crashed and went blank while updating BIOS at the suggestion of Lenovo "Solution" Center (quite ironic )
The machine was bricked and rendered useless. Being out of warrant the customer support team here in Bangalore, India threw up their hands and absolved themselves of any responsibility. Not only did they not believe it, but instead argued against it referring to high quality standards that Lenovo ensures while putting any BIOS/software out to the public. Had a terrible and frustrating experience.
This was despite the fact that the same issue had been faced, and acknowledged by Lenovo in the past which troubled many users.
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-L-R-and-SL-series/SL510-crashed-in-the-mid...⇄
All this was informed to the customer support team but to no avail, Their argument was that it was something specific to SL510 series and no fault in any BIOS version for T410 had been discovered. The guy just would not understand that it is not about the BIOS but rather the update process, which can go wrong, though very occasionally and there is clear documented evidence for that. Besides the process of reaching out to the team was a cumbersome one with no reliable means to establish contact.
I had the same miserable customer support service experience as described by people in the above post (not referring to the online help rendered). After great effort, the customer support team lead made me travel far to their service center only to have another bad experience and terrible waste of time. Finally, I had to shell out money from my own pocket and take the risk of a local laptop repair shop trying to fix the issue, which, at least, thankfully succeeded. That was with a great amount of risk though which could have further/permanently damaged the laptop further.
Quite amused to read the frustrating experience described by "glvtech" on that forum and disgusted to have found it unimproved even a bit.
4 years on, still the same words of another user exactly describe my situation and customer orientation at Lenovo:
" ...Google rates their customer service extremely low, and I can see why. Corporate office has NO ONE assigned as a customer advocate. Tech support has no provision for "appealing" out of warranty claims. Their policy: pay up or they hang up. Its happened to me twice now"
" ...My gut tells me that a policy that technically and ethically amounts to a company throwing a brick through your front window and then standing on the curb demanding to be paid to fix it can be changed if enough wronged people stand up and complain loudly"
Wonder when things will improve!!
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