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Jurgen W

1 reviews | Active since Mar 2019

06 Mar 2019, 11:52

Contract renewal rip-off

I had a contract with Cell C for 2 years. Unfortunately they do not offer the plan anymore and had no other suitable plan. So I called in the cancel the contract to move to a different provider (this was late November/early December). They forwarded me to the customer retention center, where the consultant made me an offer whereby I would have gotten 990 minutes per month at slightly less than what I was paying before. So I agreed to this. It actually worked for the month of December. Unfortunately I did not see the invoice for January and noticed with the February bill that I only received 90 minutes and had to make a plan to pay for the extra minutes. I reported it to the call center and the agent said that they would investigate. I didn't hear back from them for about 2 weeks, so I called in again. I was told that the investigation showed that I renewed the contract in the Canal Walk store (which I did not - I signed up there for the original contract 2 years ago), but whoever is investigating would update me shortly. A few weeks later I still haven't received any feedback and I am still sitting on 90 minutes for the month. This is a proper *******. If Cell C doesn't want to honour what the offered me than I would rather have the contract cancelled, like I originally intended on doing, and move to a different provider.

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Cell C
Cell C's reply06 Mar 2019, 12:15
Official
Good afternoon Jurgen

We have requested one of our team members to follow up on this matter and assist. Apologies for the manner in which this matter was handled.

Do expect communication.

Regards
Cell C | PN

Best regards,

JW
Jurgen W's update29 Mar 2019, 19:45
Reviewer Update
It took quite a while for Cell C to pull the tape of the conversation with the consultant and it confirmed that the deal was offered to me and confirmed. So from my perspective we have a legally binding contract. But CellC said that they have to look into it as they do not have such an offer and confirm the way forward. That was about 2 weeks ago and no indication. Instead I have been waiting an additional month without the service that I signed up for.