WL
Werner L

1 reviews | Active since Aug 2009

31 Jan 2022, 12:52

Entirely impossible to cancel DSTV streaming package!

Multichoice appear determined to make it impossible for customers to cancel their streaming packages. Today I made five calls to their Customer Contact Center and each time they gave me the runaround for five minutes, before putting me through to their Cancellation Department - who NEVER PICKED UP! They simply did not answer. I sat on the phone, wasting my airtime, listening to the same insipid seventies flute music and the same inane adds, until I finally gave up an hour later. Then I tried the Whatsapp channel. It politely told me that my Main Package could not be cancelled via Whatsapp. I needed to do it online. Then I installed the MyDSTV app and tried to cancel my Compact Plus Streaming package. It took me as far as stating why I wanted to cancel and from when, and then the page stopped responding and the spinner kept spinning. The MyDSTV web site did the same. It let me do everything I wanted, without fail, apart from cancelling my streaming package. It simply hanged and hanged and never came back! Finally, a call center agent told me to drive to the walk-in center, and so I did. And then discovered that it NO LONGER EXISTED! Very clever trick. You get people to subscribe, and then make it completely impossible for them to cancel. I am wondering though ... Surely that is ******* ..?

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Replies (2)
WL
Werner L's update02 Feb 2022, 09:50
Reviewer Update
Further to my complaint, I can announce that apart from cancelling my streaming package as I had asked, I was also billed for that package, to the tune of R588.00. To their credit, MultiChoice did telephone me and apologized for this, and promised to reverse the debit. I am hoping the reversal will happen this week still. R588.00 is a lot of money to pay for something you no longer have, and hardly used.
WL
Werner L's update09 Feb 2022, 10:45
Reviewer Update
Multichoice mistakenly debited my account and promised to refund it. It's been more than a week, and I still do not see the refund in my account.