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Fern S

1 reviews | Active since Jul 2009

02 Feb 2015, 10:56

Trying to close my account since 2013

Letter written to Edgars in Feb 2013<br> 'Without Prejudice<br> I am hoping that you will be able to assist me.<br> I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to close my Edgars account for some time now.<br> I sat in Edgars Bayside in January and spoke with various call centre agents. As I was retrenched in June 2012 and had been struggling to make ends meet, I approached Edgars and advised that I had contract work from January until April of this year. I offered a settlement amount of R as I am only earning R p/m. This was rejected outright by the call centre agent (whose name I have forgotten - I think it was Ashwyn). He advised that I would need to keep my account open and pay what instalments I could. He completely ignored my stating that I only had contract work until April and that as it was unlikely I would have work after this, I could in no way commit to interest gathering instalments. I made it very clear that I wished to settle and close the account. As the outstanding balance at that time was at R , I believe that my offering a settlement amount of more than 75% coupled with the fact that I was prepared to go without food for the month should at least have been considered. This rather th

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Edgars
Edgars's reply03 Feb 2015, 14:35
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Hello Bee,

Our attempt to contact you at 02:09 was unsuccessful.

We would like to apologise for the overall experience. Please note we would like to assist you. However, you did not provide us with the account details. Please contact the accounts department on ***and quote your reference number

Your reference number is as follows: ***/GO

Kind regards.
Edcon customer experience team,
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