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Debbie Dixon-Paver

1 reviews | Active since May 2018

17 Sept 2020, 15:22

Shocking service from Makro, Riversands

I have had the worst shopping experience EVER at the Riversands branch of Makro. On Tuesday at lunchtime I purchased a fridge, paid for it and left with the promise that it would be delivered the following day between 9 am and 4 pm. The delivery was even earlier than expected....the guys were at my door at exactly 8:24 am the next day, with my fridge. They handed me a delivery note which I was asked to sign....which clearly states at the bottom that I had received the purchase in good order....but which the delivery men did not wait to actually allow me the chance to remove the fridge from all of the packaging. At lunchtime my daughter and I started removing all of the polystyrene and plastic wrapping from the fridge, only to discover at least 3 dents and a scratch. I phoned the Riversands store....spoke to someone whose name sounded something like "Popo"..no apology from him, in fact he made it feel like he was doing me such a favour by organizing an exchange. I the phoned to speak to the store manager...not available....got someone called Marius instead. He organized a "new" fridge to be delivered on the same afternoon. I asked the delivery men to remove all of the packaging before I was signing anything. This fridge was also scratched. Today I got a call from Owen, at the store, to offer me a R200 discount if I would accept the scratched fridge. Heck, NO!!! I told him that I would be up there at lunchtime to get a refund. Spent an hour in the store and left, very angrily, with no refund....because their exchange /returns person wanted to see the fridge which I was returning. Oh, you mean the one that you took yesterday? This is the first and probably last time that I will buy at this Makro branch and would welcome a call from their manager to explain how this is acceptable service.

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Makro
Makro's reply17 Sept 2020, 16:06
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Good day Debbie,

Thank you for your review on our Hellopeter platform, we do apologize for the delay in response and inconvenience caused.

We take all our customer requests seriously and assure you that this matter will be our priority.

We have received your complaint and we will therefore have it addressed and dealt with internally with relevant departmental managers, We shall thereafter relay back to you with concrete feedback within a period of 24 to 48 hours. 

Once again we do apologize for the inconvenience caused throughout your journey with us. 

Hope you find the above in order. 

Have a wonderful day. 

Kind regards
Makro Hellopeter Team 
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Debbie Dixon-Paver's update17 Sept 2020, 16:44
Reviewer Update
Kindly make sure that when you do look into this "internally" that you get all of the correct details as they transpired....how I was told by the person in your refunds department that she had already issued a refund for R4999....really? Without my card and when my amount spent was R5090??? She then went on to say that she couldn't issue my refund until she saw the fridge... Oh, you mean the one you took back yesterday afternoon. A whole hour was wasted trying to get a refund....because of inefficient, *********** staff. I stormed out of there because my daughter's lunch break was over and she needed to get back to work. Really appalling that Makro could not issue a refund in an hour. I the had to rush my daughter back to work and return to Makro to present my card for the refund...contrary to the woman in the refunds dept who told me that she had already issued one without my credit card. What a circus. I would welcome contact from the manager.