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Shelley P

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23 Oct 2020, 15:47

WHITE PAGES WORTHLESS SERVICE ( & Harassment ) Questionable technique of sales

On the Tuesday, 23 June 2020 13:58, our Company Reciepted a mail from : '***' <***>, to indicate - I trust that you are well, and thank you for your patience during this National Lockdown. We are working with limited facilities and services and will ensure every endeavour is met in resolving this Outstanding Invoice. ( A invoice we never requested, nor was advised about ), they had the AUDACITY to state (Kindly Find Attached the Requested Contract and Invoice. Please Ensure Proof of Payment is sent to Us Timeously as then only upon receipt of it can the Status of this Account be Updated. Regards Kim Green Accounts Department ***)

( MY RESPONSE) Tuesday, 28 July 2020 11:59 To: '***' <***> Good Morning It has been brought to our attention that your office at the time of calling on our Director “ ************x ”, had not supp**** clarity in line of your request. It was fully understood at the time of the call, that having our details listed via the telephone directory, would be based on mere representation of our company at no cost.Our Director would not , at any given time had any intention of entering a Contract, which seemingly now transpired on request from our office, No Mention was made/our Director made aware of a contracted price for the service to be implemented/ rendered.We were clearly not supp**** with a Approved Quote or invoice at the time , resulting in both parties approving and signing off the agreed document/contract. We wish for proof that you hold a disclosure of ****************** approving these costs and the nature of product indicating what services would be supp**** for the period of the Contract.Failing to do so, will result in us taking this up further with Schindlers/Council of Debt Collectors. We await further feedback . ( Nothing but THREATS and ITC harrasments via *** ( frot the Monday, 28 September 2020 14:17)

(To which I responded )- Hi Happiness I refer to your telephonic discussion with myself Today, and confirm that as per our discussion , and in line of the attached Whitepages invoice of non payment, it was validated that *************** was not interested in the contract, as it was supp**** under false pretences at the time. As notified by yourself, it was indicated that we have been handed over to the Credit Bureau for non payment hereof. Please ensure that feedback is supp**** to myself in line of what legalities were needed to be adhered to, as stated by yourself, we only had 5 days after completing the forms to state that we are no longer interested and the contract had to be cancelled.

We will reluctantly DEFER from payment as we believe this does bind us contractually. However let me place on record the following 1. We hereby give notice of cancellation of this agreement at annual renewal date as is required in your contract. Please acknowledge that this will be actioned without any further harassment. 2. It was our understanding that this would be an entry in what we understood to be the telephone directory and would never have contracted to pay R9540 for what we regard as a worthless service. 3. We further believe that you have used questionable marketing and sales techniques which certain did not spell out correctly the nature and cost of this contract. 4. Finally , we await your banking details to settle this payment as non was listed on either attached contract?

AND YET TO DATE STILL NO RESPONSE .....

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Shelley P's update19 May 2021, 16:09
Reviewer Update
To date no response has been supp**** , so it was taken further - Legally -
From: Lauren Squier <***>
Sent: Tuesday, 18 May 2021 13:24
To: ***
Cc: Jeremy Squier <***>; Mauritz van den Heever <***>; Shelley Pretorius <***>
Subject: ( LAFLAR COLLECTIONS) WHITE PAGES collections - Jeremy Squier
Dear Kantha,
The above matter and below correspondence refer.
We act for an on behalf of Jeremy Squier (“our client”).
Firstly, we place on record that as a managing director of Wealth Associates Bespoke Solutions (Pty) Ltd (“the company”), our client enjoys separate legal identity from the company and no collection attempts or demands can be made or enforced against him personally for liabilities of the company.
Furthermore, and notwithstanding the above, I confirm that the practice adopted by your client has as at all times been ******** and material misrepresentations have been made, Inter alia, using negative option marketing which is ********, to our client, acting as a director of by your representatives. Accordingly, the fact that any amounts are owing is disputed and any offers of payment made were done without prejudice and in an attempt to avoid further harassment by yourselves.
Despite the aforementioned, our client has previously requested your mandate and proof of account, so as to ensure that any amounts being paid (of which it is disputed that any are owing) are made to a registered and mandated collections agency, this has not been sufficiently provided. The document produced by yourselves to our client offers no proof and is of no probative value that you are mandated by your client. Please note that should the opposite found to be true, our client’s rights to law a charge of ***** and pursue harassment charges against yourselves is reserved.
We caution that the methods employed by yourselves in this collection attempt are irregular, ******** and are in contravention of the debt collectors code. Should these practices be proceeded with, we will lodge a complaint against yourselves with the debt collectors council and ask that your firm be removed as an agent.
Furthermore, should any attempt be made to ITC list our client in his personal capacity or to do so to the company, these attempts will be defended, as in addition to the demands being unfounded, compliance with the provisions of the National Credit Act is lacking and your listing will be ********. Furthermore, any damages suffered to our client or the company due to the ******** ITC listing will be claimed from yourselves and legal costs on a punitive scale will be requested from the court in this regard.
We await your response in relation hereto and trust that you will be guided accordingly.
Kind regards