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brandon.ryan.rowe brandon.ryan.rowe

1 reviews | Active since Feb 2017

11 May 2018, 12:37

YET AGAIN STANDARD BANK *****ING THEIR CUSTOMERS!!!!!!

Standard Bank I am absolutely DISGUSTED with how your treat your lower income customers!!!! ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED!!!!!! A friend of mine had an ATM swallow his card and tried several times to contact the ***** department to cancel the card, and when he did manage to get through to your ***** department 2 hours later, he had already had almost R2000 taken from his account. Neo Nathsidiso then called my friend a few days later to say he wouldn’t get the money back because the ***** was done using the original card and Standard Bank won’t refund if the money was taken using the original card. Shortly after I went to a branch with him and chatted to a consultant who said this was *******, the reason was actually because he didn’t cancel the card in time. So the consultant called your ***** department to find out the details on why the money wouldn’t be refunded, and the person at the ***** department said that the card needs to be cancelled within 5 - 10 minutes of the machine swallowing the card…. but wait… here’s the kicker… IT TOOK YOUR BRANCH 27 MINUTES TO GET HOLD OF YOUR ***** DEPARTMENT WHO TOLD US WE HAD TO CONTACT THEM WITHIN 5 - 10 MINUTES!!!!! Obviously now you can understand how ****ed off I am that I’ve wasted half an hour at your branch to be told this, and so the person at ***** who we spoke with requested the matter be revised and your consultant at your branch sent an email to Neo Nathshidiso requesting they look into this matter further, as my friend tried calling you several times, but after waiting on the phone several minutes, put down the phone and tried calling your ***** department again… and again… and again… until at last he got through! I was promised by your consultant that Neo would get hold of my friend the next day to sort out this matter, and you guessed it…. 2 weeks down the line AND NEO NATHSHIDISO NEVER CALLED MY FRIEND BACK. So today I spent another 20 MINUTES on the phone to get through to your ***** department to find out what’s happening, and you guys had the decency to put the phone down half way through me explaining what had happened at the branch!!!! NOW I AM SO ****ED OFF THAT NOONE AT STANDARD BANK CAN LIVE UP TO THEIR PROMISES, AND THAT I’VE WASTED MY TIME TRYING TO SORT THIS MATTER OUT!!!! PLEASE CAN NEO NATHSHIDISO GET HOLD OF ME SO I CAN SORT OUT THIS MATTER ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!! MY FRIEND DID EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER TO GET HOLD OF YOU AFTER THE MACHINE SWALLOWED HIS CARD, AND IF YOUR ***** LINE WASN’T SO USELESS, HE’D HAVE CANCELLED HIS CARD WHILE WAITING AT THE ATM!!!!!!!

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Standard Bank
Standard Bank's reply11 May 2018, 16:31
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Thank you for posting your comment.

We assure you that as an organization we are committed to providing the best possible service and assure you that this will be addressed as a matter of urgency.

We apologize for the inconvenience and undue frustration, this has caused.

We greatly appreciate your continued support

Kind regards


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brandon.ryan.rowe brandon.ryan.rowe's update11 May 2018, 19:06
Reviewer Update
Is this a joke!?!? You send me the same automated response that you send to every person who lays a complaint against you guys!? Where's the personal touch!? Where's someone replying because they actually care about the client!? One thing I didn't mention about my friend, is that he is an informal trader, and one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet, dedicated to turning his life around and that the money ****** from his account (±R1700) is equivalent to almost a full month's salary for him!! And on top of you feeding him some bull**** excuse on why you can't pay him back his money, you have the audacity to charge him for a new debit card after YOUR MACHINE swallowed his old card!? I was actually sick to the stomach this afternoon when I found out you had not done anything to resolve this matter, after promising you would! This proves to me your true colours!
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brandon.ryan.rowe brandon.ryan.rowe's update11 May 2018, 19:06
Reviewer Update
Is this a joke!?!? You send me the same automated response that you send to every person who lays a complaint against you guys!? Where's the personal touch!? Where's someone replying because they actually care about the client!? One thing I didn't mention about my friend, is that he is an informal trader, and one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet, dedicated to turning his life around and that the money ****** from his account (±R1700) is equivalent to almost a full month's salary for him!! And on top of you feeding him some bull**** excuse on why you can't pay him back his money, you have the audacity to charge him for a new debit card after YOUR MACHINE swallowed his old card!? I was actually sick to the stomach this afternoon when I found out you had not done anything to resolve this matter, after promising you would! This proves to me your true colours!
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brandon.ryan.rowe brandon.ryan.rowe's update22 May 2018, 15:22
Reviewer Update
My friend in questions is a street vendor, and so every day is different for him. I'm now overseas and I've been told I cannot answer calls on his behalf, so I recommend you calling him every half hour (Considering the hours of my time and his time you've wasted already, this should be no inconvenience to you), or send him a message and ask when would be a good time to get hold of him. Alternatively, if after trying every half hour to get hold of him, you still cannot reach him, please send me another message either here or on Facebook so I can arrange for email correspondence, as I see you're very happy to take advantage of a street vendor's lack of knowledge on how financial systems work, and I would like to be kept in the loop on any further correspondence if possible to save me wasting more time later on if I found an unfair (or in this case *********) decision being made later on. I also want to make it clear, that I wasted over an hour in your branch and another hour on the phone being put through to people who made empty promises, so when I say I expect you to call him every half hour, I feel that is the least you can do to make up for the **** service you've forced upon us so far, and I will be HIGHLY annoyed if I find out you guys did not do everything in your power to try help my friend retrieve his money.