JM
John M

1 reviews | Active since Jan 2014

21 Jan 2021, 11:44

Un-professional behaviour

Vodacom introduced a service that involve money that can be incurred by a customer without activating the service. When you call the customer service, all what you get is arrogance. My contracts where all suspended for something I didn't activate. October 2020, I noted after paying my monthly subscription that I still owe Vodacom about R2500.00. I then phoned the customer services 082 135, later they agreed when I said it's my account and I did not authorised nor activated anything on the device.

The later corrected the issue. I suggested that why don't they make sure that in their introduced service they introduce authentication of whether is the account holder activating any of the service introduced. November 2020 after I have paid my monthly subscription discovered when I received my statement that I owe Vodacom R2200.00. I contacted their customer services. I was told that it's the activation from their *135£ someone activated data. I told them that this a joke as they say it was activated the same time as the previous issue. I was not informed about it. Vodacom forgot to bill it in October and they are doubling it in November. I told them I have nothing to do with the activation. I was ignored even after phoning them about four times in November 2020. December after paying my monthly subscription Vodacom decided to suspend all my contract. Contacted them that I am paying my monthly subscription and why my contracts are suspended.

I was told that my account is on arrears. I told them that I have nothing to do with that activation they are claiming. I have a router with them and a router at home, why would I want to activate data from them . They were explaining abstract and later said I must log a query. I did that and later my cells were activated. I suggested again that they should introduce authentication for their services that involve money, in that way I cannot phone them and claim I don't know a service that I activated.

20 January 2021 I visited one of Vodacom shops about my query, the shop suggested that I should take Vodacom to the social media. They had lot of similar queries whereby data services are activated and Vodacom claims that the client activated it. This is not accepted because one gets arrogant customer service that will always tell you that the matter has been referred to the back office. The issue are ignored or never resolved

When ask to speak to the back office, you are told that no one speaks to them. I also want to take this to twitter.

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Replies (3)
Vodacom
Vodacom's reply21 Jan 2021, 13:53
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. ***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,

Vodacom
Vodacom's reply21 Jan 2021, 15:03
Official
Dear Customer,

Thank you for the time and effort taken to voice your dissatisfaction to our office. It is with the cooperation and feedback from valued clients such as yourself that we are able to identify any areas of improvement within our organisation.

Drawing reference to service request number ***, our records indicate that your query was escalated to our billing team for further assistance. Our team completed the investigation and found that the bundles were added via the USSD self-help option on the device. Based on the feedback provided, our team deactivated the recurring services and credited your Vodacom account with R1327.24 as a gesture of goodwill.

Drawing reference to service request number ***, our records indicate that your query was escalated to our billing team for further assistance. Based on the feedback provided, our team assisted and added the USSD inhibitors on your number.

Should you require further assistance, kindly contact our accounts team on ***(free call from Vodacom sim) Mon – Fri 08:00 – 17:00 Sat 08:00 – 13:00 Sun 09:00 – 13:00.

We apologize for the inconvenience and the service experienced.

Regards,

Vodacom Consumer Website Team

Best regards,

JM
John M's update21 Jan 2021, 17:49
Reviewer Update
Thank you for your response, at the same time I received a threatening letter from your office saying they were going to report me to the credit bureau. However two of my cellphones encountered the same issue of the self service you are talking about. The two phones came as a package and both had a similar problem.

Why is it easy for someone to activate a service without verifying if it's the account holder. My issue about your service is verification of the person activating the service. The problem about your service it involves money.

I can't wait to move all my from Vodacom. Bullying and threatening is not working.