Poor Upgrade Department
I did a pre-order for the new iPhone X on 17/11/2017. Ref number FICWQK. As per the sms "A consultant will contact you to confirm your order from 17 November 2017." 7 Days later no contact from Vodacom. I then went online to do my upgrade. I experienced major difficulties trying to do this so I called the updgrades department to do my updgrade on 24 November 2017. I was told all has been done and confirmed. Saturday 25 November 2017, I received a strange call from an Agent stating she is calling from Vodacom and needs to varify my details. I told her I'm not comfortable handing over all my personal details on phone to a department that I don't even know about within Vodacom. No one had told me I'd be receiving a call. I explained to her very nicely to please ask upgrades to contact me to explain that this is the next step in the process and even apologized if she was a legitimate employee of vodacom, but with the amount of ***** in our country, this call just seemed strange to me especially on a Saturday morning?? She pleasantly told me she would do so. Monday 27/11/2017, I receive a call from cancellations department, wanting to know why I've cancelled my contract??? The consultant from Saturday put a note on the system that "I refused to give my details, so she cancelled my contract!" NOT TRUE AT ALL!! This women from Monday's call sorted everything out and I received my confirmation call. 2 Weeks later and 3 days of constantly holding on at upgrades to follow up with my order and finally today this morning I get through to someone to be told "we are offline" and she will call me back when they are back online, 2 hours later I miss a call from them and receive an sms "Dear Vodacom Customer, we trust you had a great service experience. If your query was not resolved, simply reply NO within 24 hrs and we will call you back." I reply no. I have not received a call back and phoned now to customer care, asked for the complaints department only to be told you don't have a complaints department!! I was put on hold again!! And eventually got through to a consultant at Upgrades to be told, there is no stock of my phone? How is it that 3 other people I know who did there upgrades after me with no pre-order received their phone's yesterday? I am a VIP customer, pre-order done and due to one *********** staff member I now am in the back of the que! I need my query resolved by close of business today and need to know what has actually happened!
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.
***Please note*** Beware of phishing ****s.
Vodacom will not contact you via Whatsapp to request your personal details.
Regards,
Vodacom Consumer Website Team
Best regards,
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.
***Please note*** Beware of phishing ****s.
Vodacom will not contact you via Whatsapp to request your personal details.
Regards,
Vodacom Consumer Website Team
Best regards,
