Active since Mar 2023
Makro - the Xmas Grinch Promises and commitments broken with no empathy for the customer. Ordered a gift for my daughter to be delivered on the 22nd, online tracker committed to this - unfortunately my daughter will not be receiving her Xmas present this year, even after multiple calls to Makro’s call centre which was a shocking experience to say the least. 3 promises to deliver before the 25th not only failed but absolutely no communication followed. Will never buy from Makro again
Purchased a Delonghi coffee machine. Out of the box came up with a function error, after 15 min on hold to their customer support, was answered but immediately put back on hold after another few minutes had no option to drop the call. Tried using their contact page on their website, 3 days still waiting for any response - absolute disaster
Unfortunately the growth of the business has seen a demise in its service delivery, with a level of arrogance, blame game and aggression that is not customer centric in any way shape or form.
Unfortunately they have become to commercially focused and their service delivery and capability has dropped significantly. Follow up on poor workmanship only comes at additional costs
Just general shocking level of service at every turn. Requested a month to month agreement which was committed to on the call with their sales people. They then installed the device and then informed me it's a 36 month contract. I asked them to recall the voice recording to evidence the conversation/agreement. 10 days later they refuse to and refuse to contact me to have the device removed and any level of agreement terminated. Where to now?
I the executor and son of my late mother (DAJ Deftereos - ID 4205130040083) have been trying to close my late mother’s accounts since the 2nd of February 2023. I was in the Fourways branch and dealt with Takalani Mashau, who supposably sent through all the documentation required and which was acknowledged by him. On phoning the ABSA deceased estate call centre 2 weeks later to follow up on progress - I was informed that Takalani did not attach the documents and that I had to go back to the branch and resubmit all the necessary documentation again. The attitude of the call centre was extremely poor with no empathy, whatsoever. I went back to the branch on the 16th of Feb and concluded the necessary steps, where Takalani, cc's me in the mail to the deceased estate call centre, which I have as proof. I then followed up at the end of Feb to see the progress, where they stated that they were still in progress and would take another 10 days or so to complete the closure of accounts. I phoned in on the 13 of March and on my first call was told that they didn't have the death certificate but then remarkable found the death certificate and that it would take another two weeks. I asked to speak to a supervisor but was denied and was transferred to another line were I was hang up on. I phoned back to the deceased estate a few minutes later and insisted to speak to a supervisor and was informed that they all in meetings. I refused to accept this and was put on hold and after a few minutes the ABSA employee hang up the call. I then called back a 3rd time and spoke to an Arther, who was the first polite individual I spoke to and informed me he would leave a message with his supervisor but alas never received a call. Phoned Escalation line 0800414141 on the 15th of March – they had no record of the Website escalation I concluded on the ABSA website on the 13th of March ??? Logged a query ref # C25449539 with the Escalation Dep and sent through the email correspondence with the branch and the deceased dep as evidence to the Escalation Dep and committed that it would be resolved in 3 to 5 working days Called on the 22nd – they had an incorrect email address, even though I resent the mail to complaints dep on the 15th. The escalation dep acknowledged that they used the wrong email address and subsequently tried to get hold of Amanda in the deceased dep but were unsuccessful. The escalation team said they would get Amanda to contact me. I informed them that I will no be highlighting this to Hello Peter.
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