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lyle P

1 reviews | Active since Jul 2010

06 Jul 2018, 01:57

Battery Mobile Centre - Maitland - Cape Town are DISHONEST & RUDE in my opinion

I used this company to change a car battery for my sister’s car that I drove on that day, the 30th of May 2018 whilst I was at a site meeting. The service was excellent. I got a bill for R1000 and I paid them online that evening but I made a mistake and I paid them R1800. I realised. Then when I checked my online banking 2 days later I realised this and I sent an email with my banking details asking them to refund the R800. Maybe a week or 2 later, after forgetting to follow it up, I got a call from a female at the office, whose name I am not going to mention at this time as I am a gentleman, and she mentioned the refund and asked wether it had to go into my bank account or my sister’s as it was my sister’s car that I had a new battery fitted in. I said to pay it into my account. Around the 17th May as I had not received payment I went to my bank and had the payment reversed. According to SA law I have a month to do this. I got a notification from the bank a couple of days later to say that the reversal was unsuccessful due to insufficient funds available in their account to do the reversal. I phoned this same lady from Battery Mobile Centre - Maitland and said to her that I had done a reversal which was not successful, that I had not been refunded and I had been advised to lay a charge of theft with the SAP and I asked this lady to please go to my bank which is a different bank and pay the cash in as I wasn’t prepared to wait 10 days or so for clearance when I know banks clear a payment immediately but they pull the wool over South Africans eyes saying it takes time whilst my money makes interest for the bank. I have bank accounts in 4 countries in 3 continents and unfortunately SA banking has gone from being incedibly efficient to quite ***** in my opinion. This lady became to defensive and rude and said it was my fault that I paid the incorrect amount and that I could come and collect the cash from their office. I said I was in Johannesburg on business so that was impossible. She was incredibly rude and unprofessional. I am a director of a company and a successful business man globally and if I treated my clients in such an unprofessional and rude manner, I would never be where I am. I told her I’d put this incident on Hello Peter and Social Media. Like many ******** South Africans who do not realise the power of social media, she told me to do it because she does not care. I have shut down a company through social media for having the same attitude so I hope the ignorance of this female, creates the damage to Battery Mobile Centre that it deserves for hiring such arrogant, unprofessional staff. I am going to email the owner and ask to be paid the funds immediately as asked plus a fee to cover a months interest of sitting with my funds and for my hourly rate as a professional for wasting my time on this rediculous matter when I could be earning money.

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lyle P's update08 Jul 2018, 09:19
Reviewer Update
WITHOUT PREJUDICE As soon as I put this review up and forwarded the link to Battery Mobile Services, I got an email from a Brian Shepard stating; Good morning > > Kindly send me your bank details and I will sort out > your refund today . > > Kind regards > > Brian I sent the bank details and added that I expected compensation for my 2 hours of wasted time and income hassling with this matter and interest from having my R800 in their account for + 5 weeks. Well I got the R800 on my account that evening but never an apology nor any compensation. It plainly shows to me, in my opinion, that overall this entire company runs on arrogance, entitlement and non-professionalism. The new South African service attitude is that the client owes the vendor and they bury our heads in the ground ostrich style when there is a problem and wait for it to go away. In my opinion SA is going to crash badly and rapidly become another Zimbabwe and mostly because the South African individual does not care and does not try to fix the country. An apethetic attitude of being a victim. When I was at varsity I was tear gassed, rubber bulleted and arrested for fighting for the freedom of the people of SA. What a waste of time. Nelson Mandela sat imprissoned for 40 years to give South Africans freedom. What a waste of his life! Until South Africans stop acting like victims and start to join together, fight for their country, give the best service, be positive and be honest, the country will keep getting worse and that is such a shame as it is a beautiful country with great wealth potential but unfortunately a general population that’s angry, feel entitled , have given up and are letting their children’s future slip away. A government cannot fix up a country, the people do that. The above is all my opinion and without prejudice and I am blessed to have duel citizenship and live in a polite, honest and civilized environment which is like that because people respect each other and give excellent service and are friendly and that creates positivity and a healthy economy.