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8 reviews34 months ago
Deon Maritz / Deon Schoeman / GT750 / GS1000G / GS850G
There are two individuals who are involved in this business. The first one goes by the name of Deon Maritz. He is the more technically knowledgeable one. The second one goes by the name of Deon Schoeman and he has almost no technical knowledge from what I can tell. They are operating from two different locations. The first one is located at No 34 Jolly Street, Lowrenville, Johannesburg. The second one is located at No 7, Ohm Street, Kya Sands. The Kya sands location is grotty and disorganised. It is being used to store vehicles which belong mostly to Schoeman including a white and blue 80s GSXR750 and another red and white 80s model GSXR750. Maritz keeps a 80s GS850G which is unlicenced at the Kya Sand location. Take note that even though Maritz has a GS850G parked at his Kya Sands business premises he is still unable to provide spares for a GS850G which fit the bike properly. They deal with old Japanese motorcycles including the 1980s Suzuki GS1000G, GS850G, smaller 1980s Suzuki GS bikes and Suzuki GT750 two stroke. It appears that Schoeman is buying old bikes and then peddling them at massive mark ups. I highly doubt that he is declaring his income to SARS as required by law. They charge exorbitantly high prices for spares and there is a chronic problem with the quality of their spares. They do not display signage on their business premises and do not provide a tax invoice. They provide a hand scribbled invoice which does not contain any details of their business or details of either of the individuals who are involved in it. I can only conclude that they are not paying tax and the business is not VAT registered as is required by law. They charged R4645 for a points ignition set for a GS850G which I bought for a friend of mine. The points do not work on the bike from what my friend told me. I recently bought a GS850G. The bike's fuel tap was leaking when I bought it. I took the fuel tap to Maritz and specifically asked him if he can repair it by fitting a new O-Ring kit to it. He told me that there is no such thing as a replacement O-Ring kit available for these fuel taps and that the only solution is to replace the entire fuel tap. He charged me R750 for a "new" fuel tap, which has its outlet on the wrong side (the right side) and not on the left side as with the original one. Maritz R750 fuel tap leaked even worse than the original one. I complained about the exorbitant pricing and poor quality of their parts. Schoemen then fitted another "new" fuel tap to the bike which also leaked like a sieve. I then said that I want a refund to which Maritz refused. Eventually I took the bike to a local bike shop who repaired the original fuel tap by simply replacing the O-Ring kit. Maritz charged me R400 for two carburettor clamps for my GS850G. Suzuki charge R46 for one. This means that the Deon pair charge over 400% of what the agents charge for spares. Needless to say that one of the carburettor clamps did not fit the bike. Remember that they have a sample GS850G parked in their business premises which can be used to check that parts fit. They provided me with a GS850G badge that that had the G broken off. Schoemen blames everything on Maritz and neither of them accept any accountability for their poor quality service. The fact that they are unable to repair a fuel tap leads me to the conclusion that they are not safe to work on a motorcycle since a leaking fuel tap can cause a motorcycle to catch on fire. On 12 May I travelled through to their Kya Sands business premises to collect my fuel tank, to which they had fitted yet another leaking fuel tap. Deon Schoeman tried to assault me during this encounter. He approached my vehicle while I was in the process of leaving the premises and accosted me next to my vehicle. These two men are very dangerous individuals. They believe that they can solve their problems with violence. Schoeman refused to provide the business name under which he is peddling old vehicles. My advice is to completely avoid both of these men. They believe in violence.
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39 months ago
Floris Visser Fraudster
This man operates under the name Floris Visser of A-Z Handyman Services Centurion. His contact number is 0610209107. He is a white male Afrikaner. He came walking around my home advertising that he is a DIY man who can fix things and so forth. I contacted him to replace the 0.75KW pressure pump in the front of my property. He came out and removed the pump. I paid him R3500 cash for the replacement of the pump on Friday 10 February 2023. At this point he started making all sorts of excuses as to why he could not complete the task. He said his mother is sick in Alberton and some or other family member of his died and that he ordered the new pump online. I told him to bring back my old pump and my money. He has not complied with my instruction. Do not allow him onto your property and do not give him money.
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39 months ago
Poor Service Delivery and Refusal to Come Out
In November 2022 I contacted them to replace my pool pump and sand. I battled to get hold of them and they were very tardy in coming out to my property. Eventually they replaced the pump and sand. By December 2022 the system was pushing sand out (this was due to a broken finger which was not their fault). I phoned them again to repair the sand problem and this time they simply did not come out. They have signage in Doringkloof Mall but the business does not operate from there. There are several numbers listed as contact numbers for them but nobody assisted me regardless of which number I phoned. Eventually I got another pool company to replace the fingers on my pool filter. I am quite sure that my new pump has been damaged due to the long time the system spent circulating rough filter sand. Their service is extremely poor and I would advise people not to use them. Rather go to someone else.
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52 months ago
Do Not Join Academics Singles South Africa
Please do not subscribe to this platform. It is a huge money making scam. I joined Academic Singles on 6 November 2021. They charged me R199 on 06/11/2021 which seemed reasonable. A month went by and on 06/12/2021 they charged me R995, which I thought was extortionately expensive considering the quality of the platform. I thought I may as well live out the month and delete my account before the next deduction. I tried to delete my account on 03/01/2022 and the platform would not allow me to. It referred me to an email address which I emailed and which provided an automated reply which marketed additional subscription, which is exactly NOT what I wanted. I emailed the same address again with no response to date. On 06/01/2022 they deducted another R995 from my account. I wish I had read the reviews on Hello Peter before subscribing to this platform. It is a huge fraud show.
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58 months ago
Complete Respray of Yamaha 1989 FJ1200 in Cherry Red and White
Bike Service Centre did an excellent job of respraying my 1989 Yamaha FJ1200, 3 CV model in cherry red and white. The quality of their spray work is of a very high standard, especially considering that the cherry red has a silver base coat, which must be applied first before the cherry red can be applied. I definitely recommend them for anyone who needs spray work or accident repairs done on your bike.
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100 months ago
Fraud
I came across an advert by CaySeren Scaffolding (PTY) Ltd on one of the South African advertising sites in which building props were being advertised. I spoke to a lady by the name of Miss Sarina Zelda Sonny of ID number ********** 097088 who is the managing director of this company. I needed four props so requested a quote and was sent a quote via e-mail address ********** which contained a quote under the CaySeren company letter head. The business registration number and address of the business were on the quote so everything looked very legitimate. On Monday 15 January 2018 I paid R3700 into an ABSA account no ********** 5642, with branch code 252645, which is a Menlyn Branch and the account was in the name of Miss Sarina Z Sonny. Miss Sonny communicated via e-mail that the building props would be delivered to my address by Tuesday 16 January 2018. By Friday afternoon 19 January 2018 still no delivery of any kind had taken place, yet I had received a few sms's from Sarina Sonny during the week promising delivery and apologizing for the inconvenience. Sarina Sonny uses the cell phone number ********** as well as ********** . To all South Africans please avoid any person advertising anything using any of the contact, business or bank details explained above. This is a fraudster and you will definitely not receive what you pay for from Miss Sarina Sonny, if that is even her real name.
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135 months ago
Trip Track Software Feedback
Trip track attended to my request on 12 March 2014 by converting the files to a format that I can open.<br> I am satisfied.
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135 months ago
Trip Track Software Support Problem
I procured Trip Track as a means of tracking my vehicle's trips on 28 January 2014. From 28 January 2014, until 14 August 2014, I used the product to track and log my vehicles movement. Unfortunately by 14 August 2014, my computer was overcome with a computer virus and on 14 August 2014, I formatted the computer and reloaded all programs including Trip Track. I was unable to open, into any readable and editable format, any trips prior to 14 August 2014. I have tried everything to rectify this problem, including changing dates and kilometers on the databases, reloading Trip Track several times and trying other programs to open the GTL files. I have e-mailed Trip Track support staff on numerous occasions, since September 2014. Trip Track support staff have sent me information and hints, which have proved unsuccessful in rectifying the technical problem. I am left in a situation, where I have lost half my trips for the year. I do not have a way to recover these trips, which means I will suffer financial losses on my SARS Tax Return for 2014/15 year. I would suggest clients, to buy a travel log product that is capable of accessing its trip files after reloading of software.
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