Terrible Telkom

Hooray! End of saga at last! We have finally managed to get Telkom to stop billing us, 18 months after we cancelled our landline contract with them. In month 18, they still put through a debit order for R475, which we got reversed. I guess we can whistle for the total amount they owe us ! The problem results from the bank debit order process; If the receiving person or company does not cancel your debit order at your bank,they can keep debiting your account. The bank can reverse a particular payment , but cannot cancel the order for more than a few months. Telkom got past this "cancellation" by changing the debit order number so that the bank didn't recoggnise that it was the same one. Please watch out for this type of ****.