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Mark Janse van vuuren

1 reviews | Active since Sept 2011

18 Feb 2026, 17:20

Vodacom FRUSTRATIONS AGAIN

Actually for this specific interaction there should be a negative numeral. At 14:53 today I called into Vodacom to do 2 upgrades. The first upgrade is for my home internet. In November 2024 I received a promotional call to increase my Wi-Fi to open ended 30 up and down but with fair usage at 600GB. Suddenly the last two month suddenly we get cut off at 600gig, not throttled but cut and I have been having to buy an additional 200GB. ( PS. That is not the problem) I called in and spoke with an extremely helpful agent, Nokukhanya. I explained my situation and she explained to me that my contract can only be upgraded end of August. I explained that, that would be too long so she looked at my full profile. One of my other contracts is due for an upgrade. It is my ****le which I use for when I travel. To cut a very long story short she suggested that I cancel my Wi-Fi contract and pay the R1576.15 "cancellation Fee" and then gave me a very good deal on upgrading my ****le to WIFI at 1 TB. I told her that I accept that and thanked her for being a great consultant. Unfortunately she could not assist with that and I had to call 135 customer service and they will assist. This is where my problem started. No matter what I did I kept getting the chatbot TOBI whom could not help. I spent almost an hr just to get through to an agent. Eventually I got through to Sizwe at 16:02 who too was unable to assist me and put me through to Mighty at 16:15. Mighty did not sound too enthusiastic to assist at all. I explained to Mighty that I have a credit of over R5000 so please could they take the R1576.15 from my credit. Immediately he said NO and rather asked why do I have such a large credit. I have no idea what this has to do with it. Then he told me that he was unable to take the R1576.15 from my credit. I asked why as I receive one statement with one account number on it and he was adamant. I told him not to worry and that I would rather do a complaint on hello peter as I would get proper assistance from somebody that actually wants to assist me. Please a senior enough person call me to assist me as I have a second query unrelated and I just simply cannot get through to the right department on 135. I keep getting blocked by the chatbot that cannot answer my question and no matter what I do I cannot get through to an agent on 135. It is now 17:18 and this process started at 14:53 and i just cannot anymore.

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Mark Janse van vuuren's update19 Feb 2026, 09:34
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Kindly can you reply publicly as I can not find your private reply
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Mark Janse van vuuren's update20 Feb 2026, 19:17
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Our SAGA continues. Vodacom just cannot get it right. My plight started on
18/02/2026 @ 14.53. The initial consultant I spoke with was Nokkukhanya and this is NOT about her. She is the only one who assisted and what followed was out of her hands.
The following is the list of agents that I spoke with and bear in mind that this was a continual conversation since 14:53 until 17:50 being put through, line dropped etc
16:02 Sizwe
16:15 Mighty
17:33 Gina
17:50 Priscilla
Then we continue the following Day

19/02/2026
11:05 Narcia/Marcia
14:24 Tembi
16:18 Nomusa = Nomusa informed me that there was a system glitch and when I asked for the upgrade on my number *** unfortunately the system glitch kicked in and my number *** was cancelled taking my DATA with it. She emphasized that it was a system glitch and that it would take 24 hrs and my number would be up again by tonight.

20/02/2026
Unfortunately today was meetings on meetings and I could not attend to the Vodacom saga.
18:39 The number is still suspended. I called and spoke with Ntombikayise who really tried and even spoke with he supervisor but unfortunately the upgrades department is now closed and so we continue tomorrow
UNACCEPTABLE VODACOM😒😒😒 I now have to purchase ADDITIONAL expensive data because of YOUR INCOMPETANCE How long before you make an effort to fix this 🤷♀️🤬🤬🤬