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Wendy-Joy Timmes

1 reviews | Active since Mar 2013

31 Jan 2017, 11:49

Desperate measures MUST be planned well

<p>I opened my Edgars account when I first started earning my own salary and didn't have to use my mother's account anymore. So that's around 30 years ago now.</p> <p>So I have a deep-seated loyalty toward the business and would never wish it anything bad but I have had the most appalling experiences with them now for too long. And there've just been too many.</p> <p>I know the Online Shopping website was 1 of their attempts to revive the profitability of the Company but you cannot throw a solution at an informed and educated Public when you haven't done either your analysis nor your development and testing thoroughly.</p> <p>You cannot track your purchases online. The delivery process took 6 weeks in my case and that only after multiple email & telephonic attempts by me to get an update to 'find' the goods. My 2nd online purchase was only done because of Black Friday prices and because I didn't need the items urgently. I also chose 'click & collect' rather than 'delivery'.</p> <p>It didn't talk too long (longer than other sites but not 6 weeks) to get my notification that it was ready. I collected it the next day. This was now a month ago? I am STILL getting email notifications to say my order is ready.</p> <p>The emails I've sent telling them remains unanswered, the Customer Service phone number either doesn't get answered at all or you get cut off right after someone answers.</p> <p>I've previously complained that the staff in the store are unfriendly and ***********. This has improved slightly but they're still not great. And are generally 'invisible.</p> <p>I do very little shopping in Malls nowadays and prefer Online. Edgars is getting neither right. </p> <p>What To do?!</p>

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Edgars
Edgars's reply01 Feb 2017, 10:25
Official

We have escalated the complaint to the Edgars Cape town City management to address as our valued customer is not happy that the staff members were not friendly and unhelpful. A reference number for the formal complaint logged on your behalf is as follows ***/GO. The store management will make certain that this kind of incident does not re occur and provide the necessary training for our staff members. It is feedback from customers like you that will ensure that we will continue to maintain the high standard of service that you expect of us.

Kind regards,

Customer Experience Team

Call Centre: ***.

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Wendy-Joy Timmes's update01 Feb 2017, 10:58
Reviewer Update

Is this really the 'Official business reply'??

I write a complaint of 22 lines - 2 lines of which mentions 'unfriendly & *********** staff'. The rest of it is about your Online Shopping processes.

Your 'Official business reply' promises to look into 'the staff members that were not friendly and unhelpful'

Really Edgars???