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Roelof L

1 reviews | Active since Nov 2019

03 Feb 2020, 12:26

Cant close DSTV account

I immigrated in September 2019 and asked for my DSTV to be disconnected from October 2019. I sold my decoder to someone on Gumtree and as per DSTV's instruction, I gave the user a change-of-ownership form (filled out). Since then DSTV have been deducting money from my account without my permission. I phoned DSTV from Germany last year and noticed that all the verification details I was asked, is exactly all the details on the form I gave the user. He obviosuly never changed the decoder to his name and now have my ID number, Name and Surname, Address and telephone number...essentially giving the new user all the detail he needs to phone in and pretend to be me??? This makes no sense...and now I have some guy activating my account every month, having to cancel every month and try my best to reverse the money from my bank account. I have now instructed my bank to stop the debit orders, but somehow its happening again...I have spend countless minutes on the phone, spent how many euro's phoning DSTV, but cancelling your DSTV account seems to be impossible. I am actually out of options. If DSTV could contact me that would be great, cause the phone magically gets disconnected every time i reach the cancellation department...this is very upsetting. Replies on social media goes unanswered...

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Replies (4)
DStv (MultiChoice)
DStv (MultiChoice)'s reply03 Feb 2020, 13:54
Official
 Dear Roelof, 

We acknowledge receiving your complaint and we are attending to it. Feedback will be communicated as soon as possible. 

Kind regards, Dstv: Hello Peter Team 

Best regards,

DStv (MultiChoice)
DStv (MultiChoice)'s reply03 Feb 2020, 17:27
Official
Hi Roelof Loots,

On behalf of MultiChoice, I want to extend my sincerest apologies for the negative experience that you had with our service. 

We do not have a request for canceling the services or Change of Ownership. However, we have scheduled a cancellation for the 01\02\2020. 

Please provide us with the Change of Ownership forms so that we can transfer the decoder.   

Kindly contact us on *** should you need further assistance. 

Kind regards
Ntando

Best regards,

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Roelof L's update03 Feb 2020, 17:56
Reviewer Update
Hi Ntando,

Thanks for the quick response...Can you not see any other requests for cancellation for last year? Thanks for the cancellation request, but this have been done before...Sadly I cannot give you the change of ownership form, as I gave it to the person who bought my decoder, as he needed to take the form to DSTV to change the ownership. (I sadly did not make any copies)

All I know is that his name is Isco Ndururani.

Can you not completely cancel my account? Remove the smartcard number from my account? Remove my bank details from the account? How will I prevent this from happening again? He obviously still has the form with all my details on and is why he is able to activate my account every time :( There must be an easier way to stop this *****?

Pls help


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Roelof L's update08 Apr 2020, 14:44
Reviewer Update
Guess what guys??? My account is active again...and I apparently owe DSTV R597 ??!?!?!??!