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Thomas S
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7 reviews103 months ago
What are the Traffic officers doing
This is the second time that I had to experience this. A few months ago, I received a summons for an outstanding traffic fine. When I read the offense, it stated, "Failing to display a license disk. The fine was issued in Paarden Eiland and the vehicle was a Mercedes Benz. I do not own a Mercedes Bens, so I figured someone must be driving around in a Mercedes Bens, using the Registration number of my vehicle which is a Renault. I immediately went to the traffic court, took my vehicle's registration papers, license renewal papers and an Affidavit to state under oath that I am not the owner of a Mercedes Bens. The magistrate checked my documents and then sc****d the fine. I then asked her.....Will the Traffic Department trace the Mercedes bens...what must I do if I get more traffic fines like this because clearly this person/s is driving around in a Mercedes Bens using vehicle'smy registration? The answer I got was: "You will just have to come to court every time with all your papers. i just looked at the magistrate in disbelief, and I left. Today 24 October 2017, my wife called to say the sheriff delivered another summons at my house. It has the same wording. Failing to display License Disk. Also noted on the summons is the same Mercedes Bens. Now how is this possible that the officer who saw the vehicle parked without displaying a License Disk, and who wrote the fine - did not run the registration via the traffic central control. This way it can be verified as to whether the make and model of the vehicle matches the registration plates. I WANT HELLO PETER TO INVESTIGATE AS TO: How is this my problem that someone else is driving a different vehicle using my vehicle's registration. Why do I have to take off from work to go sit in a queue at the traffic court to explain what the traffic officers fail to see. How can the magistrate tell me that I just have to come back with my papers if it happens again. How long is this going to inconvenience me. I have sheriff's knocking on my door with summonses of offences that I did not commit. What are the traffic officers doing about this - What if this vehicle is used to commit a serious crime while the registration number points to my name and address? By the time the courts hear all the facts, I would have already been picked up, handcuffed, processed and behind bars waiting to appear in court for a crime I did not commit. The state will then just apologise and that would be life-changing for me as I have never been behind bars. Don't the traffic Officers keep a record of such suspicious vehicle's and act upon it when they see a pattern? I am a taxpayer and living in Cape Town, and because of this, the city is not working for me :(
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116 months ago
Holding back my invoice to generate revenue on AD HOC ITEMISED PRINTING
<p>I have an MTN 200 TOP - UP contract with MTN and I am so sick and tired of MTN charging me extra for services that are supposed to be included in my contract. For the past 4-5 months I have not been getting my monthly invoice via email or otherwise. So I have to call/ email the MTN call center every time. The person/s at the call center are genrally very apologetic and blames their system for being off-line. This is a typical answer from the call center"I apologise Sir but we cannot check for you because our system is off-line" but we will forward the invoice as soon as we are back online. Please also note Sir that you will receive feedback within 3 - 48 hours"</p> <p>Then after a few days I get an email to verify that I am who I say I am before I can get the invoice. So I email my full details including my MTN pin. What a surprise to see that an extra charge R21.50 is added to my account under the heading "AD HOC ITEMISED PRINTING"</p> <p>They are basically charging me for sending me the invoice that they initially failed to send in the first place. I cannot wait for my contract to expire. The staff of MTN is not only incompetent, but they are also not educated well enough to think outside of the box, and this includes their suprevisors on duty. The more I try to explain that I did not get the invoice, the more they tell you that the problem will be escalated to their IT department.</p> <p>I want MTN to go into my account and reverse all the "AD HOC ITEMISED PRINTING" charges that was added. I have an email trail of the numerous times that I had to request my monthy invoice. At one point I even created a new email address because they made me believe that there might be a problem with my email address. Even after going to the process of registering my new email address with MTN, I still did not get the monthly invoice. All other correspondence to and from MTN is not a problem.</p> <p> </p>
53 replies
121 months ago
Unfair Policy
<p>I opened a new account at Truworths. On 5 April 2016 I bought a 3 piece wedding set at Truwoths Adderley Street Cape Town, and to date this was the first and only purchase I made on the account. I was planning to ask my girlfriend for her hand in marriage and this I planned to do on her birthday which was 20 May 2016. So on Friday, 20 May 2016, I popped the question to my girlfriend. She said yes so I took the rings to put it onto her finger only to find that the rings were too small. She was so happy but said we can have it resized. </p> <p>So on Sunday 22 May 2016, I took the 3 piece wedding set to Truworths at The Promenade Mall in Mitchells Plain. Not only were we told that the store do not provide a resizing service, but also that they have a 14 day policy in which to return jewelery. I informed the store manager that I was unaware of this policy, and even if I had to know about it, it would still be unfair. Unfair in the sense that</p> <p>1) They have no resizing service</p> <p>2) How could the 14 day policy make sense if the getting engage is a planned surprise.</p> <p>3) Now we are sitting with a 3 piece wedding set that the store refused to credit.</p> <p>The store manager advised us to have the wedding set resized at Sterns or American Swiss Jewelers. So we went over to these jewelers and they used a measuring tool to see how many sizes the wedding set would need to go up. It turned out that it needed to go up 5 sizes at a cost of R75 per size if the wedding set was purchased elsewhere.</p> <p>The calculations were as follows:</p> <p>5 x R75 = R375.00</p> <p>R375.00 x 3 rings = R1125.00. We went back to Truworths and informed the store manager that it will cost us an additiona R1125.00 to have the rings resized at the other jewelery store, So I again asked for the wedding set to be credited instead. The store manager insisted that the Truwoths policy will not allow her to pass a credit. She advisec that she would do an exchange, but then I would have to purchase other goods (clothingor shoes) to the same value. My reply to her was that her suggestion was outrageous bacause we are now sitting with a wedding set that is gorssly undersized, which I paid R2500.00 for, and Truworths are basically forcing me to pay an extra R1125.00 over and above the initial purchase price just because their policy says so? I also asked why would Truworths sell jewelery and in this case wedding sets that are only available in 'standard size" as the manager named it? Why do they have a 14 day return policy on jewelery if they cannot provide a resizing service. So what they are basically saying is that I WILL pay the 2500 plus interest on my account regardless of whether the wedding set fits on my fiance's finger or not. I would appreciate it if someone from Truworths head office can intervene. I also want to alert other potential Truworths account holders to be aware not to fall prey to this. Truwothrs opt to sell jewelery and in my opinion they should have aftersales/ backup/customer support in cases where their standard wedding sets does not fit on a womans finger. It is not fair to assume that jewelery are one size fits all. As a new account holder, I am appalled by this policy and see it as grossly unfair. We are now engaged without a ring on her finger simply because the set purchased at truworths cannot fit on her finger. My fiance and i are both very dissappointed because we are planning to get married on 3 September 2016. The onus is Truwoths to look at changing this exchange policy on jewelery and look at subcontracting / source a company to do their jewelery resizing. I was very upset when i left the store and was tempted to go public with this. I however decided to give Truworths the benefit of the doubt by just posting my dillema here on hellopeter.</p>
53 replies
121 months ago
Daylight robbery without shame!!
<p>I opened a new account at Truworths. On 5 April 2016 I bought a 3 piece wedding set at Truwoths Adderley Street Cape Town, and to date this was the first and only purchase I made on the account. I was planning to ask my girlfriend for her hand in marriage and this I planned to do on her birthday which was 20 May 2016. So on Friday, 20 May 2016, I popped the question to my girlfriend. She said yes so I took the rings to put it onto her finger only to find that the rings were too small. She was so happy but said we can have it resized. </p> <p>So on Sunday 22 May 2016, I took the 3 piece wedding set to Truworths at The Promenade Mall in Mitchells Plain. Not only were we told that the store do not provide a resizing service, but also that they have a 14 day policy in which to return jewelery. I informed the store manager that I was unaware of this policy, and even if I had to know about it, it would still be unfair. Unfair in the sense that</p> <p>1) They have no resizing service</p> <p>2) How could the 14 day policy make sense if the getting engage is a planned surprise.</p> <p>3) Now we are sitting with a 3 piece wedding set that the store refused to credit.</p> <p>The store manager advised us to have the wedding set resized at Sterns or American Swiss Jewelers. So we went over to these jewelers and they used a measuring tool to see how many siszes the wedding set would need to go up. It turned out that it needed to go up 5 sizes at a cost of R75 per size if the wedding set was purchased elsewhere.</p> <p>The calculations wore as follows:</p> <p>5 x R75 = R375.00</p> <p>R375.00 x 3 rings = R1125.00. We went back to Truworths ans informed the store manager that it will cost us an additiona R1125.00 to have the rings resized at the other jewelery store, So I again asked for the wedding set to be credited instead. The store manager insisted that the Truwoths policy will not allow her to pass a credit. My reply to her was that we are now sitting with a wedding set that does not fit, which I paid R2500.00 for, and Truworths are basically forcing me to pay an extra R1125.00 ovwr and above the initial purchase price just because their policy says so? I also asked why would Truworths sell jewelery and in this case wedding sets that are only available in 'standard" as the manager called it? Why do they have a 14 day return policy on jewelery if they cannot provide a resizing service. So what they are basically saying is that I WILL pay the 2500 plus interest on my account regardless of whether the wedding set fits on my fiance's finger or not. I would appreciate it if someone from Truworths head office can intervene. I also want to alert other potential Truworths account holders to be aware not to fall prey to this. Truwothrs opt to sell jewelery and in my opinion they should have aftersales/ backupo/customer support in cases where their standard wedding sets does not fit on a womans finger. It is not fair to assume that jewelery are one size fits all. As a new account holder, I am appalled by this policy and see it as grossly unfair. We are now engage with a ring that cannot fit on her finger and we are planning to get married on 3 September 2016. The onus is Truwoths to look at changing this exchange policy on jewelery and look at subcontracting a company to do their resizing. I was very upset when i left the store and was tempted to go public with this. I however decided to give Truworths the benefit of the doubt by just posting my dillema here on hellopeter.</p> <p>I can be contacted on: 0837192925</p>
106 replies
122 months ago
Dont just get Savvi, get REAL
Please get REAL and not just Savvi.<br> How is it possible that my number was unavailable? You have all my contact details on my membership profile. <br> Durr :(
75 replies
123 months ago
They are not bothered how far you are from Doctors
I joined get Savvi in December 2015 and are still in my 3 month waiting period before I can use the service. During this time, i spoke to my family GP who refuses to join the get Savvi Panel. There is no GP or Dentist on the Get Savvi list of service providers that are within walking distance from where i live. Get Savvi staff informed me that it is up to me to speak to my family GP to convince him to join Get Savvi. They have no marketing department that does that. In the event that someone in my family should fall ill, it is going to be a hassle to get to the nearest GP on the current list of Get Savvi service providers. One would think that Get Savvi will do their best to canvas in all areas for GP's and dentists to grow their network and make their medical services more accessible.
75 replies
127 months ago
I am satified
Dear complainant. I have purchased a car from Dart motors for R56000 (Renault Scenic) Huge deposit yes, but they need to cover their costs as they provide IN HOUSE FINANCE. I had to a few minor issues a few days after purchase too. I approached them about it and they took the car back and their on site machanics fixed the problems. I paid the car in full within 3 years. Went back to Darts and they offered me another car, but I did not have deposit, and i actually love the first car that i purchased. Today I am still driving it and saving up for a deposit. If you want more security, get finance from a Bank, then go choose a car of your choice at Darts. You will not pay high deposit if you go via the bank and if any problems, you can complain to the bank. Dart Motors help most people who have bad credit records and that sometimes come at a price. Ensure that you keep your credit record clean then buy through the bank. I will definately recommend anyone to Dart Motors. Go speak to Aihisha and tell her Mr Smouse sent you. That is the lady that has been looking after my queries and I could go to her for any problem with the car (and there were not many)
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