Rant on takealot dishonesty and lack of business ethics

<p>I'd been looking for a cookware set to buy for quite some time and found takealot had Bastille cookware set for R3799, R500 cheaper than anywhere else. After ordering, and waiting for over a week with no feedback or delivery I decided to find out what was going on(let me just note that at this point the scanpan cookware set was about R2500).</p> <p> </p> <p>One support person told me they did not have stock(even though the website said it was in stock when i bought it). He promised that i would get my delivery within 2 weeks... blatant lie.</p> <p> </p> <p>A couple of days later i noticed that my order was cancelled. No email, no phone call... just cancelled. I once again queried what was going on and was told that the supplier does not stock it anymore. I queried how that could be possible as several other stores have it but at a higher price, and got utter bs excuses in return. They did not even offer me a timeframe to wait. i found this very suspicious at the time...Takealot had obviously made a mistake and were now pulling out of the deal. </p> <p> </p> <p>To top things off, takealot decided to increase the price of the scanpan range to R4000 and offer it to me as if they were giving me a deal. I had tracked that particular cookware set for months, it's not even worth the R2500 they previously had it, let alone R4000!!!!! Absolutely crazy how they thought they could con me.</p> <p> </p> <p>I got refunded and bought the cookware set at Makro for R4249, because they mysteriously had stock.</p> <p> </p> <p>So i checked takealot this afternoon and takealot is again selling the Bastille cookware set, BUT FOR R4249... and the scanpan pot range is down to R2500 again.</p> <p> </p> <p>I will never ever buy from takealot again with such dishonest service. For that R500 mistake that you wouldnt own up to, you will lose tens of thousands as i take my business elsewhere</p> <p> </p> <p>I have the emails and screenshots to back up what i wrote if you want to challenge me on anything written above.</p> <p> </p>