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Therese M

1 reviews | Active since May 2023

15 May 2023, 14:58

I just want my refund after faulty product, it has been more than 3 months!!!!!!

I have had a very bad experience with Makro the past 6 months. I bought a Meccer inverter from their online store for R3 200. After it broke 3 months later, it took about 2 months for them to fetch the inverter, as it could not be returned to the store as I bought it online. The inverter was collected in February and I sent follow up emails every week requesting on the progress and when I'll receive the inverter back, as I work from home and need it to work with all this Loadshedding in SA. For the 1st week I got a response indicating that it is at the supplier and they are working on it, but after than, no response what so ever. I continued to email them once a week to follow up on the matter with no response from any one. Finally beginning of May they sent an email after I followed up again, indicating that they cannot fix the unit and will refund me. I immediately responded that they should refund into my bank account as I no longer have a Makro account. I provided the details of my bank account and even attached a Proof of Bank account letter, once again with no response. I phoned the call centre early last week to follow up on the refund, after the call got dropped a couple of times as they tried to follow up with the finance department, I kept on phoning for an answer. Finally I was told that they tried to refund to my account which failed. I explained again that I told them not to refund into my account and provided banking details. I was assured that the process would take 24-72 hours and that I would have the monies in my bank account by Saturday 13 May. I phoned again this morning, each time the call got dropped when they put me on hold, each phone call lasting between 7-15minutes and I have to pay the costs. This is pathetic service, I can't even buy the exact same inverter with the monies they will one day refund me, as it is now a R1 000 more. I just want a date for the refund to be paid in my bank account and no one can seem to give me an answer, and if you go into the Makro shop to speak with a person they just tell you, sorry, we can't assist as you bought it online. My next step is to take it to social media and reach out to people in Management on public spaces, so people can see what bad customer service Makro is giving people....my monies wasn't broken and now I need to spend extra cost to find somewhere else to work, while Makro takes their time to refund me!

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Therese M's update18 May 2023, 11:14
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Makro is pathetic, it has been more than 3 months!!!...they still can't tell me when I will receive my refund (just empty promises and lies to try and silence me), and in the meantime I need to make other arrangements for hybrid working. My monies wasn't broken and who is gonna pay for all the additional costs I need to incur to arrange alternative working space where there is electricity during loadshedding (which is now almost 6hours every day). And each month prices increase, by the time they finally decide to refund you, you would not even be able to buy the smallest inverter out there and I had a decent sized one. Next step is going to Facebook and contacting the CEO via LinkedIn, hopefully then the world would realize not to shop at Makro and hopefully management can do their job and fire the *********** people!!!
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Therese M's update29 May 2023, 09:53
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Dear Makro. You are pathetic. Once again after following up multiple times and the phone getting dropped...(what a suprise!) the pathetic call centre operators does not even know what they are doing. Keeping me on the line for 15 minutes and then telling me they are gonna deliver something, what the ****...and then another 5minutes later, apologies, we are still trying to refund you...isn't that what you have been telling me the past 4 weeks, and then the Makro team telling me 10days ago they are ensuring that the matter is resolved, bull****, you are doing nothing...now I've had it...I'll go to social media and tell the whole world how ****ty Makro is and also inform the CEO that he needs to get his employees in line!!!
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Therese M's update19 Jun 2023, 09:32
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Empty promises time and time again. You have rep**** more than a month ago that this, matter will get urgent attention and would be resolved...no one have contacted me, I have to follow up 3 times a week and no one has come back to me or can supply me with proof of payment that I indeed have been refunded. I have had enough and going to take this matter to the ombudsman tomorrow if the monies is not in my bank account by then and I'm also gonna contact the CEO of Makro via linkedin and inform him of the pathetic customer service and lies I've been told