TLDR- Bought a lenovo laptop on its website on 9 October 2020.
- Stated delivery within 8 weeks at time of purchase
- Lenovo lied, and shipping date is end January 2021 (4 months after)
- Cancelled order, and request refund on 26 October 2020
- Lenovo has't refunded in 2 weeks, calls and emails lenovo
- Lenovo ignored, and just say wait, we check our system
- Send an email to bank, cc BNM, OFS, KPDNHEP
- Bank refunded in 2 days.
IMO not many of us know that with credit cards, there's a greater amount of consumer protection in case of unfortunate incidents where we need to dispute transaction with merchants. As we can use intermediaries (banks, card issuers (mastercard/visa/amex), BNM, OFS, KPNDHEP) to ensure that our rights as consumers are well-protected.
In my case, Lenovo sucks balls to the max. At the time of my purchase, its website shows that the item will be shipped within 8 weeks. I made my order, paid, and wait. One week after that, lenovo portal shows my laptop is shipping in November, a few days later, it changed to December, and a few days after that, changed again to late January 2021.
I am well-aware that AMD Ryzen CPU now has a worldwide shortage, but is it so difficult for Lenovo to estimate their shipping date? If it ships in 4 months, just write 4 months la, don't la lie to people and say it ships in 8 weeks.
My experience with refund with other companies, are normally quite quick, ie less than a week. After 2 weeks of not getting refund, this thing is starting to get on my nerves.
Wrote a long email, and copied to BNM (bnmtelelink@bnm.gov.my), OFS (enquiry@ofs.org.my), and KPDNHEP (eaduan@kpdnhep.hep.gov.my) on 7 November (Saturday)
BNM replied that they noted, OFS called and tell me to call them within a week, if there's no development from HSBC.
HSBC immediately replied within 1 working day (9 November) and say will investigate and get back to me within a week.
HSBC refunded me on 10 November


Did lenovo charge you full amount? Mine one only charged rm1 for verification, and full amount when the order is shipped.
But i agree that the experience of their online ordering is very bad. I called to complain about my purchase, that still in waiting to ship, is cheaper now. The customer service ended up offering me a partial refund, but subject to approval from their management.
And this morning i checked the shipping schedule again, ETA from 30 Nov become 26 Dec