Profesional Con Artist

<p>I am reposting this as she managed to use sneaky a Hello Peter loophole to have my and the other 3 or 4(or more) other post/reviews against her removed.  Just shows you how mischievous she is and I can’t believe that she is still getting away with it.</p> <p>I have names and contact details of at least 10 other people who was also scammed by her should someone be looking for more proof and evidence</p> <p>Below my post from November 2016 ……</p> <p>I met Martie Eksteen when I walked into her shop, De Ville Glass, while I was on the hunt for a better service provider that could install aluminium windows and frameless shower doors for my renovations company. We struck up a conversation and it appears I immediately fell for her “I'm a widow” story and decided that I would place my next order with her to try and help her out.</p> <p>A couple of weeks later I called her for a quote, she was extremely helpful to arrange a suitable time for a site inspection and she arrived on time to do the measurement on 5 August 2016….. That was the last good service I received from her.</p> <p>I paid her a 100% deposit as she explained to me at our previous meeting that she has been done into many times by clients and doesn’t take on projects if she doesn’t receive a 100% deposit which was understandable as I myself had issues with clients that struggle to pay once the project has been completed.</p> <p>She promised me a lead time of around 10 working days for the installation. Needless to say, this wasn’t adhered to. About 20 days later, we still had no shower door and I became anxious, as we had to complete the project and hand over to the client. Hereafter followed a cat and mouse game to get hold of her and get answers out of her. Several delivery dates were promised and never kept.</p> <p>They eventually did the installation about a month late without any supervision or competent staff.  I am sure a 10-year-old could have done a better job. The glass panels were completely the wrong size, fixing brackets installed in the wrong places, seals, and gaskets missing, just to mention a few of the problems.</p> <p>The next day I expressed my clients and my own extreme disappointment with the work that they have done and the poor service we received to date. It was a struggle to get her back to site for an inspection to point out the obvious mistakes and blatant negligence and poor workmanship.</p> <p>Once she was there I offered her an ultimatum to have it rectified within a reasonable time frame or refund me which she agreed to in writing.</p> <p>Long story short, almost 4 months after paying my100%  deposit, lots of false promises, several unanswered calls, Whatsapp and emails we still don’t have a completed project and still waiting on her new installation date. Needless to say, I also didn’t get my refund, just a promise that they would come and fix it.</p> <p>We are still waiting for them to come and complete the installation. Her last words were  “ I'll call you as soon as I received the glass from my supplier and then we can arrange an installation date”. From what I hear she talks to all her clients like they are the ones at fault, once they are on to her, that is if they can get hold of her.</p> <p>I did some investigation and it appears that I am not the only one who she did in. I got hold of at least 5 other people with similar stories, some of them that “apparently” lost almost R50 000 on similar incidences and am thankful that my loss is only R 6 300.00, as I was about to give her more projects.</p> <p>Please make contact with myself, Stephan on ********** or Annina on ********** if you had a similar experience as we plan to take collective action if there is enough interest. </p> <p> </p> <p>Regards</p> <p>Mr Gullible</p>