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Renesia B

1 reviews | Active since May 2018

31 May 2018, 17:48

Pathetic Customer Experience with Vodacom

Pathetic customer experience, verging on rude, dismissive and condescending from 2 senior staff members at the Canal Walk branch. THe branch manager, Morne Speelman and the assistant manager Adri Johnson (or thats the name she gave after refusing to provide her surname, with the comment "what has my surname got to do with you" and .... "who do you think you are" Similar condescending and infuriating comments by the manager, when after reporting the rudeness of his staff, made it very clear to me that he was not interested in my complaints about his rude staff and the poor customer experience at his store, responded to me by saying "so what is your actual issue here, can you just please say what it is you actually want done because all you are doing now is complaining!"...... He was extremely dismissive, rude and condescending. It was the worst CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE i have ever experienced from any retail store /front-end staff in my life. I think the level of corporate bullying has reached a stage where if people dont start calling out the behaviour of these corporates (and their staff), then they will engage with people in their "gangster" type attitude without any consequences. Clearly they have been getting away with this attitude if the two most senior employers of a prestigious store like Canal Walk behave like little gangsters. I have 2 personal contracts Vodacom and a third through an employer? I have had terrible service with this provider in trying to resolve a technical issue on one of my contracts over the last 3 weeks. The experience with the Canal Walk store this evening is the last straw! one of my contracts is up for renewal and I will be cancelling that with immediate effect. I would like to warn any prospective clients that my experience with Vodacom has been pathetic. I would not recommend anyone to have dealings with that company. Aside from the terrible customer experience, the technical issue i have with one of the devices I purchased on contract is so bad that I am in the process of reporting it to the TCF regulators and will position that issue separately on this medium once I have consulted on the technical issues with an independant advisor.

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Replies (6)
Vodacom
Vodacom's reply01 Jun 2018, 06:29
Official

Dear Customer,

Thank you for making us aware of your complaint.

Kindly be advised that a consultant will make contact with you in due course to assist with your query.

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Regards,

Vodacom Consumer Website Team

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Renesia B's update01 Jun 2018, 11:57
Reviewer Update
What a total dissapointment! I received a response from a Dane Larson at 11h40 1 June. His apologies for the rude service I received was dismissive, robotic and insincere. the conversatino did not go well. He refused to provide the email or telephone number of his seniors to whom I have asked to escalate my technical issues. He is clearly not capable of engaging on the legal, TCF and technical issues of my complaint. His blanket, non-sensical responses to my very technical questions are totally unacceptable. His inability to provided satisfactory answers to my very direct questions amounts to corporate bullying, His refusal to escalate my matter to more competent seniors is a further incident of bullying, just now by the very junior levels within Vodacom. AS a customer I will never renew my business with this company and I will continue to discourage friends and family from doing any kind of business with this organisation. the Customer Experience remains negative, the issue remains unresolved. THe company appears incapable of responding to my technical matters and questions.
Vodacom
Vodacom's reply01 Jun 2018, 13:06
Official

Good Afternoon Renesia

As per our telephonic conversation, physical damage voids the warranty.

So sorry to be bearer of bad news.

Kind Regards
Dane Larson

Vodacom
Vodacom's reply01 Jun 2018, 13:06
Official

Good Afternoon Renesia

As per our telephonic conversation, physical damage voids the warranty.

So sorry to be bearer of bad news.

Kind Regards
Dane Larson

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Renesia B's update01 Jun 2018, 13:41
Reviewer Update
You ave failed to engaged me on the issues. Your incompentence and inabiility to deal with this matter will be escalated within yout buiness. You cannot objectively respond to a complaint about yourself!! This matter will be reported to the relevant regulators and you will be hedl to account
RB
Renesia B's update01 Jun 2018, 14:15
Reviewer Update
I cannot escalate the matter within Vodacom because the customer services bunch refuse provide the names and emails of their managers, insisting that they themseves are "capable of dealing with these issues"....which is a complete joke becuase there has been absolute no response to my technical questions and regulatory issues re policy and "definitions" which are at the core of thsi issue. Who is the senior manager at the Vodacom technical Centre at Belville?? PLease provide the escalation process and people. thanks