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The Wedding Design Magazine review: Liar 20

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WITHOUT PREJUDICE
This is a women that MUST be avoided at all costs, she is a pathological liar, has no business acumen, will promise you the earth in order for you to give here what she wants, BUT will never deliver on anything. Let me just say that she does have a publication called The Wedding Design Magazine it is NOT in all the shops as she professes but I have seen it personally ONLY in Exclusive Books in Greenstone Centre Edenvale, I’m from Durban and nobody here has ever heard of the magazine or even seen it.
With great regret I was approached by this women about 3 years ago as somebody reported her to my Scams Website and she was paranoid about the entry stating that she was running for a big competition (###) and this could prevent her from winning, eventually after her incessant nagging I removed the entry, what followed was a barrage of promises and lies like you will never believe, she is a master of deception and has every single excuse under the sun, BUT NEVER taking the blame for anything.
Over the period I've been bombarded by her to help get 100’s of entries off the Internet on many “bad service” report sites in exchange for all kinds of wonderful things, like a partnership in the business, she will send me all kinds of business related matters, photos, business plan, eft funds to my account, she will relocate her business to Durban, even down to meeting me in Durban and NOTHING came thru, f*** all ever happened.
I went to Gauteng on 4 occasions to meet her and on all occasions she never pitched up or even had the common decency to call me and cancel, I always had to call her and hear all these stupid stories of why she couldn't make any appointments.
She will ask you to call her in an hour or two and when you do she will say, “Call me back in 10mins” and when you do she will postpone again, CORALIE JANSEN VAN RENSBURG is BAD NEWS believe me when I tell you, DO NOT GET INVOLVED with this women as you will only regret it.
The registration of her website has no bearing to her name at all, which makes one wonder if she in fact owns the thing or not – go to http://www.whois.com/whois/ and enter in “weddingdesignmagazine and see what you get...you will get this
Registrant Contact:
plastiek.tv
Werner Botha ()

Fax:
PO Box 29233, Sandringham, 2131, Johannesburg, South Africa
Johannesburg, 2131
ZA
She claims to be getting divorced yet her husband has a website doing exactly the same this as she is with the same magazine.
AVOID THIS LIAR AT ALL COSTS, and if you've had experienced the same I welcome you to call me on +[protected] or email me directly on [protected]@garthjw.com, my name is Garth J Whittaker and I REFUSE to be anonymous in this matter.

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Monique Kleynhans
, US
Jan 23, 2021 2:34 pm EST

We should take this woman to court. She has scammed too many people and is still up to NO GOOD.

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Nita Terblanche
, US
Jan 15, 2024 10:37 am EST
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I am absoutely shocked to read this and the fact that no-one has been able to stop this woman is appalling. It seems she is enjoying overseas trips, living the life while scamming people. She did this to us in 2012 and nearly ruined our wedding. I will never forget this name.

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Lee-anne Range
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Jan 08, 2019 1:09 pm EST

We just came home (we left at 17h30 only to arrive home at 20h30) after a long drive to collect a fondant topping for a cake my sister had to bake for Coralie. Said it's for her daughter's birthday. She said the topping was nothing like she wanted it and she demanded a full refund. After she made the payment for the cake only a few hours earlier AND she wanted the cake for tomorrow, after she asked it for Thursday only. First she said it's for her magazine, Mathilde&Me and later said it had to go to school for her daughter's party. She also wanted an immediate refund. She never stated that she wanted the topper exactly the same. There went a lot of time and effort into it, even saying that she was dissapointed as she is a business woman herself.
We really do wish that we had known of this before.

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Gerhard Taljaard
, ZA
Nov 28, 2018 8:17 am EST
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I am amazed to see that Coralie is still around and cheating, lying, conning like always! My company rendered a courier service to her in 2012, of which she still owes us more than R50k. She is the biggest con artist I have ever (telephonically) met in my life. She was never available to meet us in person, and/or always cancelled meetings on short notice. She seems to get away with murder all the time...I have logged many complaints on Hello Peter and Complaintsboard and yet nothing happened to my complaints. BE WARNED, Coralie Jansen van Rensburg IS BAD NEWS!

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Joanne99
, ZA
Feb 02, 2018 3:25 am EST

Coralie took my sister and an old school friend of mine for the same ride... they paid for their photos to be featured in the “real life wedding” section but no one ever heard from her after payments were made. She approached me as well but luckily I got a heads up. I put a complaint on Hello Peter - she phoned me at work - suddenly coming out of the woodwork! Demanded and manipulated me into contacting them to remove the complaint. I can’t believe that she is still at it! Unbelievable! Dishonest scammer!

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Chanté
, ZA
Sep 05, 2017 2:32 am EDT

Coralie Jansen van Rensburg has a new scam - MATHILDE AND ME Magazine/Blog. She (who calls herself Mathilde) contacted us on 24 August 2017 after finding our work on Facebook. She asked us to join MATHILDE AND ME at R85 p/month for the next 12 months (but you have to complete a Debit Order Form with all your banking details, strictly no EFT's). I asked her for a Company Letterhead, which included Cell Phone Number [protected] and Business Registration Number 2016/268319/07. The company is registered to Cornelia Grobler with Physical Address 1023 Wilhelm Street, Eldoraigne, Centurion. Mathilde denies being a fraud; but all the information se provided led me to the complaint by Garth Whittaker. Please be careful, it appears that she is contacting Wedding Industry Suppliers, Photographers, anyone who is involved with DIY Home-makeovers, services relating to Babies/Toddlers (especially small businesses) as well as couples who recently got married (Real Life Weddings section). If you're unsure, have a look at the Pages that MATHILDE AND ME liked on Facebook - if your business is on that list, she will probably contact you.

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Obiede
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Apr 18, 2017 3:21 pm EDT
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Sy het dieselfde gedoen met my . Belowe alles maar niks gebeur nie. Oor die R800 uit my gekry.

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Anéll
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Mar 13, 2017 2:21 pm EDT
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Caralie has contacted me on Facebook in 2011, about a year after my husband and I got married. Told me how beautiful we looked and that she would like to feature us in the Wedding Design Magazine. I had to pay R380 and send her CD's with our photos on it. I even got an example of what the article would look like in the magazine. Needless to say, it was never included in any of the editions. I was so furious for being taken for a ride! I am shocked to see that she's done more or less the same thing to other people as well!

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Johnc1
, US
Jul 18, 2016 6:31 am EDT

She is actively doing business again, and involved in other types of fraud. Contact her on [protected].
Her husband: Peter Jansen van Renseberg, his number [protected].
Their Postal: 56 Senekal Street, Wierda Park, Centurion, 0157
I would rather just pitch at her house 1023 Wilhelm street, Clubview, Centurion.
Peter works at Nissan Centurion.
We are currently having her investigated.

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Ldejager
, US
Feb 11, 2016 7:02 am EST
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We need to find out whom ells was promised all these things and take it further. We all have spend money? and still nothing came from it...

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Landrie Bredenhann
, US
Feb 11, 2016 4:24 am EST

I can't believe that this is still going on! She sold me a magazine at the Wedding Expo in 2011, my wedding was a few months after that, she promised me, she being Coralie, that she would publish my wedding in the magazine, sent me the edited pictures etc, then I never received the magazine with my pictures in it...then to apologize she promised to publish my picture on the cover of the next magazine...then again I didn't receive that copy...ahg and then the empty promises of hampers and coffee dates etc just kept rolling in...I have also spoken to the Sonette who then took over from Coralie, as Coralie is just not getting through all their business... It has been years now since I have heard from them, I really do wonder if they actually exist - I mean, they never pitch up for meeting arrangements...?!

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Ldejager
, US
Feb 01, 2016 4:28 am EST
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I haven't received any feedback. They aren't responding to messages

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MoniquemsKK
, ZA
Feb 01, 2016 3:29 am EST

any update on this? Cant we refer her to Carte Blanch?

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Ldejager
, US
Nov 23, 2015 3:40 am EST
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i want to meet her as well. Apparently she is very sick so i don't know. A lady called Sonette is dealing now with every thing. Keep us up to date so that we all can face her

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Cornelk
, ZA
Nov 18, 2015 10:51 pm EST

Coralie Jansen van Rensburg did EXACTLY the same to us.
Promised us the world and delivered nothing. Every time we had a meeting scheduled with her she didn't pitch, always having some lame excuse.
At the end of it all we lost all our money paid to her. Our lawyer tried to get the money back, but she told our lawyer that the company is in the process of being liquidated, so we had no case. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS WOMAN! In actual fact, if you are in the process of dealing with her let us know so that we can meet up with her face to face.

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Moniquemsk
, ZA
Nov 18, 2015 4:17 am EST

HI All,

Can we please STOP THIS WOMAN! After paying and nagging her for my money or décor. She advised us that her company liquidated in April? (a month before my wedding). Lets create a forum and file a law suite in her personal capacity?
THIS IS FRAUD.

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Ldejager
, US
Aug 04, 2015 7:07 am EDT
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13th of Oct, 2013 by DANIEL POSTHUMUS

I disagree with you. if I could show you all the mails, messages via whats app and sms's you would belive Gath. Im waiting for my money back as well as 10 magazines (one for the photographer) and still nothing. she was "on her way to JHB to dop off all the magazines as well as the money (MY REFUND) to me END OF MARCH, guess what. im still waiting for her. I spend over R200 calling her and messaging her to found out whats going on. Now she doesn't respond to my mails, messages, nothing. even left her message on facebook and still nothing.

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Ldejager
, US
Aug 04, 2015 6:26 am EDT
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Hi Garth

The same happened to me. I will e-mail you some of my mails. I even what's app her and called as well as sms'd her and still nothing. No magazine received nor any hamper as he has promised in March this year. I have been waiting for 2 years now and still nothing

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Mandels
, ZA
Jul 01, 2015 9:06 am EDT
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I feel the same as Garth J Whittaker ...the same happened to me, paid her and still no article in the magazine...and she do not want to pay my money back

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DANIEL POSTHUMUS
, ZA
Oct 13, 2013 2:53 am EDT

The Wedding Design Magazine is professional. We do business with them for quite a while now. We are responsible to make all their travel arrangements. We also advertise in their magazine. Keep up the good work ! looking forward to your next issue