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Duncan S

1 reviews | Active since Sept 2009

09 Mar 2021, 06:29

Travelstart poor service

I have been a loyal client of travelstart for years now, enjoying good service with their easy to use online portal. This ended abruptly with COVID unfortunately. Due to lockdown restrictions we had to change our trip over December and after a struggle we managed to get their approval to change the travel date to this year. I had paly the airline and Travelstart down against each other... Now that I have indicated a new date which they allowed me to do, they are not coming back to me. Over the past 2 months, I have had 2 responses, and not proper ones, I must say, and still struggling to a final booking out of them. The flight I purchased last year was over R8k and should I book it now, it will only be just over R5k. I still get an invoice to pay an admin fee, can you believe it. So after I asked why the flight isn't cheaper, or at least no admin fee, I started getting the poor response... This terrible Travelstart, especially for a loyal customer over many years!!!! I hope you respond to this message and get this sorted now, else it will cost me more effort in taking you to the Ombudsman. Obviously doing this take effort which I don't want to do already, but felt it necessary since I am not getting service from you and getting increasingly worried that you might charge me even more once you get back to me one day!!!

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Replies (4)
Travelstart
Travelstart's reply09 Mar 2021, 10:14
Official
Dear Duncan,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

I have checked the booking and have seen the request for 15 December - 01 January.  Please note I have sent you an email with the request for the change and awaiting your revert to proceed.  Please can you also provide a gmail email account and not a hotmail account as certain responses from Travelstart is being blocked by hotmail as your service provider deems it as sensitive information.

Wishing you a good day further.

Kind Regards,
Melissa 
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Duncan S's update09 Mar 2021, 11:55
Reviewer Update
I got the reply email, thank you, and as always. No issues with email, I must add. I rep**** again asking questions and dread that this will now again go full circle due to my questions, but why would you now go and increase the fee again!!!! It doesn't make sense that between email asking, why you are charging more yet saving a truck load, and now you even up the so called admin fee...
Travelstart
Travelstart's reply09 Mar 2021, 17:19
Official
Dear Duncan,

Thank you for taking my call.

I will be reverting back to you on email within the next 24 hours.

Kind Regards,
Melissa
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Duncan S's update10 Mar 2021, 16:46
Reviewer Update
Hi Melissa,

I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your effort in resolving this issue. I must say that I hope Travelstart realises that what they have in you as a staff member. You have made a huge difference in how I feel about the Travelstart service and I thank you for that!

Consider this item closed, and for the record, Travelstart has people that care, it's just getting to them that might still be a problem...

Kind regards,

Duncan.