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Tessa M
Active since May 2019
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4 reviews38 months ago
Makro Online…were great service-wise, but have lost the plot
I ordered and paid for two bottles of brandy, but only received one. Pointed out that they were for Birthday presents and I needed the second bottle URGENTLY. Can’t get past the Customer(Couldn’t) Care Line staff. Insisted on being put thru to a Supervisor, which number remained unanswered for over eight minutes. Asked for Head office number, which was reluctantly given. I asked whether someone would actually answer that number. “Jaaaaa they do……..unless they don’t” They didn’t!
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41 months ago
Never anything less than great service and workmanship
I have used The Curtain Company numerous times over the past few years and have been nothing less than impressed by the work that they have done for me.
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42 months ago
The absolute WORST online store to deal with!
This is TOTALLY THE WORST Online Store I have ever dealt with! I looked online for a Bosch stove extractor, saw what looked like a quite good-looking product; saw the "Ships in four to seven working days" and on this basis, ordered same and paid by credit card. This was on Monday 7th November, so....theoretically....I should receive it by Wednesday next week. Having paid, I then got an emailed invoice, with the anticipated delivery date as the 24th November, which is far too late for my purpose. I phoned up Customer "Care" and got Sabrina, with a fairly "off" attitude. She said the the 4 to 7 days was the time it would take for Loot to "source" the product and had nothing to do with the actual delivery date. The item would then be shipped by Bosch from Gauteng. I then spoke to a lady from Bosch in Cape Town. Between us, we worked out that the photograph in the Loot advert is not even the product that I have ordered. The picture is of the 90cm cooker hood and not for the 60cm one. The Bosch lady then spoke to their rep, thru which all orders from Loot HAVE to go. He said that he had not, at that point, even received my order from Loot. I emailed Loot in this regard, and got another "just suck it up, hartjie" kind of reply from Sabrina. When I responded to this, I was give a response number but, from previous experience, I know not much will happen. This morning, I spoke to Lyndon, again explaining the entire story with the multiple levels of extremely poor service AND attitude. Lyndon promised, faithfully, that he would get back to me..........and never did, over a period of five hours. The Bosch lady called me back to say that, if I can get a refund from Loot, they can source the same product, at the same price, for me. I thanked her, profusely, and said that I would get back to her if Loot were unable to pull themselves towards themselves. Furthermore, their rep had told her that he had spoken to Loot, who said that they had not placed my order because I had not replied to the email regarding the finest details of the delivery, as in are there stairs etc. (It's a cooker hood, not a stove or a two-door fridge, for Heaven's sake.). I explained that I had not replied to this, because it might infer that their unsatisfactory delivery date is acceptable. If we get past this issue, we can then worry about the refinements of delivery! I phoned Loot AGAIN, to speak to Lyndon. Instead Ebrahim answered the phone, saying Lyndon is on another call, but that he would get him to phone me back. Twenty-five minutes later, still no call from Lyndon. I phone again, only to get Ebrahim again. I pointed out that the "hitch" told to the Bosch rep had not been relayed to me by Sabrina, or Lyndon, or he himself and may I please speak to Management, apparently, named Laura. However, it is IMPOSSIBLE to speak to Laura, because she works from home and they don't know where she is or what she's doing, they can only relay my request that she call me back. Half an hour went by, with no call from Laura. I tried to phone Ebrahim again, to find that, although he told me that they only close at five, he had already "gone home". So, instead I got Phumi, who could only relay a message to Laura, which she might or might not think about before tomorrow. The whole issue could be resolved in MINUTES. Loot simply needs to bite on the bullet. Arrange for the Courier Guy, or similar, to collect the hood in Gauteng........and deliver it. Could be with me in TWO DAYS. If they really cared even a jot for customer relations! Subsequently, AGAIN, spoke to Phumi, to cancel my order and get a refund. Huge mega deep SIGH from her......She cannot send me an email confirming my cancellation, but I will get it sometime in the next couple of days, together with my sometime in the next couple of days, maybe and perhaps, refund. This is because "the order is with Bosch", only the Bosch rep told the other Bosch lady that Loot had still not even placed the order, because of the delivery instructions. Soooo if this is true, at this point in time, the transaction has absolutely NOTHING to do with Bosch whatsoever. I have been in retail FIFTY-ONE YEARS, so know a little about Customer Service.
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42 months ago
Why do I even persist with trying to bank with Standard?
As a Standard Bank shareholder (inherited, not bought 😁) even I wish that I didn’t bank with Standard. For over a month, we have been trying to get an account loaded on Business Online, so that we can see its balance and download statements for our Auditors. The ONLY place we can see it is in the inter-account Transfer records, otherwise it simply isn’t there. It is mostly IMPOSSIBLE to get thru to BoL by phone, as I have invariably been told that I am around Thirtieth in the queue. Even the phoneback system doesn’t work as promised. On Friday, the last phone call for the day with BoL lasted FORTY-ONE MINUTES, still with the matter unresolved. I was told that the Supervisor’s name was Gift and that she would be calling me back “straight away”. STILL WAITING!!!! There is, literally, only ONE redeeming feature to our experience of banking with Standard, and he is Jeremy Jones, who handles our Corporate Accounts…..at least, he TRIES to help. We hold about 25 accounts with Standard, over a period of about fifty years…..does that make us “valued customers”? Not on your Nelly. They simply don’t CARE….. I won’t even go into the months and months of appalling service and attitude given during the Covid era, when even elderly people were expected to stand in thirty/forty minutes queues outside the branch. They were not even organized enough to have a Collections counter, which could have moved a lot of people thru much quicker. AND ANOTHER saga….Two of my staff have complained about a broken network cable clip on our Shop’s Std Card machine…..but no-one had come to fix it (when I last spoke to them). They were LUCKY….they got thru to merchant services. I tried countless times and nobody answered the phone! It’s a nuisance to us AND to our customers as the cable can disconnect in the middle of a transaction. We both already have personal account dealings with Investec and they seem to be, generally, very jacked. It will be a hassle to change, but it’s getting to the stage that it’s even MORE of a hassle to stay with Standard. How BAD is it when a SHAREHOLDER has to give such a review?
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