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Somana T

1 reviews | Active since Jan 2016

02 Apr 2018, 19:41

BAD CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

I am very disappointed with Ster kinekor Maponya Mall, We bought our tickets nicely and our movie was to start at 14h30pm Acrimony, at 14h15pm me and my mom where at the line to purchase snacks, the lines were long but and the people serving us tried hard to push the line but it didn't help much, as they where only using 2 tills. We entered the Cinema at 15h10pm after waiting for almost 40mins at the line, when me and my mom entered the cinema, to be seated we realised there were people already sitting in our seats according to the receipt we had, we asked ppl to move as they were in our seats as per our tickets, they refused we couldn't find space for 2 ppl, I decided to go back out to ask for assistance, when I went out nobody was there to offer assistance, the cleaning lady who was checking out tickets, showed me a guy wearing one of the Ster -Kinekor T-shirts to help us, they guy tried going back in with me and saw also that it was packed and he also couldn't find any seats for us, said the seats are not marked and ppl just sit wherever they want. He went out showed me the Manager Queen Hlongwane, I will never forget this woman, she is the reason I will never go back to Ster Kinekor Maponya mall, instead of assisting, or finding a solution and apologising for the inconvenience she said there's is nothing she can do, she is also swamped. By that time there were also other ppl coming back complaining about not finding seats for the very same movie, she avoided us and continued checking tickets for others and ignored us, when I asked for her name, she then asked for a lady who was standing in the queue to have her ticket checked for her number, as that woman will be her witness, that she couldn't do anything to resolved my query of not finding seats, A MANAGER saying that was really appalling and disappointing, instead of finding a solution, she said "What do you want a refund?" I said to her I came here for entertainment instead I am faced with this,I bought tickets for a movie I have to watch standing up? she turned away from me and continued speaking to other customers. The guy who initially assisted me came up with a solution,said he will stop and start the movie again, he's only asking for the manager to send someone inn to explain to ppl to seat accordingly and make space, which was done, that's how I got to see the movie. I am still very disappointed, I went to Southgate mall Ster-kinekor on Friday to watch Black Panther and got the best service ever, non of the nonsense I experienced today. My WORD I AM NEVER GOING BACK TO STER KINEKOR MAPONYA MALL EVER... mad for days....

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Somana T's update05 Apr 2018, 16:07
Reviewer Update
I got a call from Olga who stated that she is the Ops manager. I must say I was very impressed by her professionalism as she she seemed sincere in her apology regarding the inconvenience that was caused and also offered to for me and my mother to come back at Ster Kinekor Maponya so she can also apologise to her as well. She made no excuses for the incident and further mentioned that Ster Kinekor has provided training to all their stuff to ensure that they are able to resolve and handle such situations. Earlier on today before I got a call from Olga, I was contacted by Sinna who said she is the manager at Ster Kinekor Maponya and wanted to know what happened. Told her what her what happened and her response to me was that 'I should note that there are other complaints from other customers regarding the incident of the movie being restarted and that I myself also witnessed that Queen was swamped on that day as they were short staffed. She apologised for the seating arrangement issue and said that its an ongoing problem they have and reiterated that she has had other complaints from clients about the movie being restarted. I would like to thank Olga for her Sincere call to me, she did make me feel like a value customer and did not try to excuse anything. Sinna I agree with you that it was packed at the cinema and as per your request I am writing a compliment for the response I go for my complaint, I understand that restarting the movie caused even more complaints for you,I think it could have been avoided, I hope when I do return to Maponya mall Ster kinekor I won't have the same experience and hoping the seat issue would be resolved accordingly.
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Ster-Kinekor's reply10 Apr 2018, 11:37
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Good Day Busisiwe,

We thank you for sharing your update with us, and letting us know that Olga did her best to correct our mistakes.

We are working on correcting the seat numbers issue and we promise the best to our valued customers.

Kind Regards,

Ster-Kinekor

Best regards,