ABSA Inconvenienced Customer

<p>I am an ABSA customer. Today I went to Clicks to buy something I needed. I stand on the que, get to the till the card declined and said I must use contact less option. Thinking it's their system I go to woolworth. Get there it gives me the same massage.i go to the ATM to withdraw because I really needed the item,still I couldn't. In the afternoon I go inside an ABSA branch to query and I m told the card is blocked because I m considered a bad debt because there was an Unpaid debit order in my account. Irritated, I ask for the complaints number, I called and the lady I spoke to tells me it will take 8 days for them to resolve the issue. I can't swipe, I can't withdraw and I am told that I must wait 8 days for my account to be unblocked. I didn't receive any warning from ABSA about the possibility of my account being blocked, I had to embarrass myself going from one store to the next ,queue in long queues only for my card to decline. I would have appreciated the courtesy to be warned about my account. Their complaints department is also a waste of time. I m moving my account to any other bank but ABSA.......</p>