JB
James B

1 reviews | Active since Feb 2015

24 Dec 2019, 10:55

The worst customers service and general sales and support policies of any company!!!

Multichoice wins hands down as having the absolute worst customer service and general policies regarding forced upgrades(no consent) and making it nearly impossible to downgrade or cancel anything. They are very similar to the worst features of used car sales and their customer service reps appear to be largely inept, with shockingly low competency levels. For example, my wife phoned on last night and gave them the last 4 of her phone number, which are -4853. When the rep repeated the numbers, they came back as -7218. My wife politely asked to speak to a supervisor and was put on hold and eventually cut off. This is not a once off- we run a B&B and must unfortunately depend on Multichoice. My wife has literally spent many hundreds of hours on the phone with them- probably the equivalent of 10 hours in a 1st world country or less. The average rep IQ can't be more than about 80. I won't venture further down that path, however.

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DStv (MultiChoice)
DStv (MultiChoice)'s reply24 Dec 2019, 11:33
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Hi, 

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
JB
James B's update10 Jan 2020, 14:22
Reviewer Update
It is now 10 January, and the issues continue. One of our services has been cut off and whenever we attempt to do a downgrade of service, the phone call mysteriously gets cut off. That never seems to happen on an initiation of service or and upgrade. We are now struggling to get the service going at one of our holiday homes. ..... Again, DSTV consistently has the worst by far, customer service of any company we have ever dealt with. Their staff just don't care in the least. When we do occasionally manage to get competent staff member on the phone, we tell them they need to get another job.... and they generally agree. The apathy at DSTV is overwhelmingly apparent! When there other options become available, we will be done with DSTV!!! I would imagine other folks feel similarly.
JB
James B's update10 Jan 2020, 14:27
Reviewer Update
Corrections on above: .... or an upgrade. When other options become available, we.......

Regarding the service we are now trying to get going.... DSTV promised to get it running days ago, but never did anything..... really pathetic. The cycle is never ending. They really just need to fire 80% of their staff and start over!
JB
James B's update08 Mar 2021, 12:03
Reviewer Update
This is now 2021, and nothing has changed. If anything DSTV has gotten much worse, both with service and cheaply acquired, low intelligence level programming. We will be discontinuing our account shortly and providing Netflix to our guests. DSTV equipment doesn't work. Constant problems, just when you don't want them. ********, unintelligent, unresourceful staff!