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Eric S

1 reviews | Active since Jul 2011

04 Nov 2019, 16:46

PRICE LOCK OVERCHARGE

I signed up for a 2year pricelock agreement in February 2018 for R959 per month and together with a monthly insurance premium of R35 on he decoder, the total came to R994 (account no. ***).. For almost 18 months evrything went smoothly, every month the correct amount of R994 was deducted from my account via debit order. Then all of a sudden in September 2019 everything changed, Without any explanation, an amount of R1216.42 was debited to my account - over charge of R2222. On 16 September, I contacted DSTV Customer Care in this regard and was told that the matter would be escalated to the relevant department and that the amount would be reflected as a credit on my next months bill. But no such luck, next month came along and not only was the credit not processed but I overchrged again with R64 - an amount of R1058. Again I phoned DSTV Customer Care on 17 October only to be told again that the matter would be escalated to the Price Lock department for resolution. Today I contacted them to get an update on this issue only to learn that nothing has as yet been done. The consultant infact advised us to contact the Price Lock department ourselves via their SMS line to sort the matter. The lady informed us that she only deals with new business and we should phone their Price Lock Billing department. She provided their supossedly phone contact numbers but this turned out to be a fax line. So what now, where do I go from here? I am totally frustrated with DSTV and their so called customer care(less). So much for their "No price increase for 24 months". Cant wait for my price lock contract to end next year, will definitely not be renewing.. Just don't trust them anymore, they just do what they want whenever they want to.

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Replies (3)
DStv (MultiChoice)
DStv (MultiChoice)'s reply13 Nov 2019, 12:51
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Hi Eric S

Once again we would like to apologise for the inconvenience and frustration this has caused. Providing customers with unsatisfactory service is not in line with our ethics

As per the telephonic conversation, please note that what the account has done, is separate charges on the account, and is only billing your for the device alone as a payment, instead of bundling the Price Lock deal. Which means it will is billing you:

  • R809.00 for DStv Premium subscription
  • R95.00 for your PVR functionalities
  • R119.00 Payment Plan for your decoder
  • R35.00 for insurance

This then causes the total to be R1058.00 instead of the initial R959.00. We have forwarded your account to the team to look into this, and assist.

We sincerely apologies for the delay in resolving the issue, and would like to get this sorted as soon as possible. 

Kind Regards 
DStv Help Team 

Best regards,

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Eric S's update12 Dec 2019, 14:02
Reviewer Update
Well, nnother month has come and gone and the problem with my DSTV pricelock account has still not been sorted. Despite their promises, they have done nothing to sort this out. It has now been 4 months since problem was originally reported. I have been notified by SMS that an amount of R971.33 will be debited to my bank account on 16/12/2019, it should be R994. Have got no idea whats going on with my account and it seems they that don't either. Don't know what to do, it seems they just do whatever they want too and there is nothing we can do or say. They simply take no notice. But, I only have another 2 months to go on this contract and then they will loose another customer. I just cannot believe that this is how they treat their customers.
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Eric S's update18 Feb 2020, 16:55
Reviewer Update
So, two more months and a bunch of phonecalls to the DSTV Call Centre later and this matter still remains unresolved. There just seems to be a total apathy and unwillingness or maybe just incomprtance on their part to sort my account once and for all. In the meantime my PriceLock contract has come to an end and now move over to a month-on-basis so I suppose the problem of overcharging will now never get resolved. As a last resort, I have referred the matter to the Consumer Goods and Services Ombudsman in a hope that they can force some action out of DSTV. Is this not just disgusting that we, as consumers and customers have to resort to such measures.