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vodacare Bad Service

I took my 2 cell phones for repair. The 1st time round I got a message that these were repaired, then I collected them. Getting home I realised that the U900 was not repaired as the speaker was still non-functional. I took this back the following week & it was booked-in again. A day or 2 after I received a message stating that my phone is not repairable. I called in to find out & they said-WATER DAMAGE-what water damage all of a sudden because there was no water damage before & by the way this was not reported when I collected the phone previously? When I went there to find out, the repair rep told me the same WATER DAMAGE story before checking the cause & after. On posing questions, I was told that in a week a lot of things could have happened. Million Dollar question to her: What can one do with a non-functional phone that it should extract water? Well she said: Should I call the manager for you? Obviously I would love to see him/her & understand. When he got there he told me the same story & that he personally worked on this phone this time round-convenient & I asked if it was repaired the 1st time & he's not sure of that. Where's the truth then - Did they damage it? Who knows?

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vodacare Appalling Service

I went into the Vodacom/Vodacare shop in Witbank Highveld Mall to place an order on a back cover for my Sony Ericsson C902. This was about 2 months ago now. I have had no phone call to let me know of the status of the order or to let me know they had ordered it. I have then been into the shop every week to see why it is taking so long, all the consultants can tell me is it has been ordered, they don't know when they will receive it. And i must just be happy with that. They are honestly not very interested in offering their client a service that i am paying hundres of rands a months to receive. They couldn't be bothered following up on the order or anything. They keep saying i must just wait. They could at least phone the supplier themselves and get an update and then keep me informed. That's what a customer care service is all about. I am terribly upset and disgusted about how i've been treated, and will not recommend them to anyone.

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Marisa Luneburg
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Oct 19, 2009 8:08 am EDT

I have experienced the same type of service from the vodacare in Menlyn. Why do they call themselves a 'service provider' when they do not really provide a service?

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vodacare Repair of cellphone only got half a phone back

Aan wie dit mag aangaan

Ek het my selfoon, ‘n HTC by Menlyn vodacare op 20 Februarie 2009 ingegee omdat dit probleme gee deurdat dit dikwels vries en dan wil dit glad nie werk nie. Ek het op dieselfde dag ‘n sms gekry wat lui: ‘ Job number 448509 has been sent to a higher level repair centre. You will be notified when it is returned and ready for colletion’

Verlede week het ek ‘n sms gekry wat se dat ek my foon kan afhaal.

Vanmiddag het ek by vodacare my foon probeer kry en het die job nommer vanaf die sms gekwoteer. Die dame het gevra vir my ID boek en toe my foon gaan haal. Groot was my verbasing dat ek nie my volledige foon terugkry nie. Die battery en die agterste cover was af. Sy het aan my gese dat volgens die job kaart het hulle die ‘accessories ‘ aan my oorhandig toe ek dit ingegee het. Ek het gese dat dit nie waar is nie. Ek het die bepaalde dag nog my telefoonnommers by dieselfde vodacare op ‘n CD laat sit en dit kon nie gedoen word sonder die battery en die agterste cover op nie. Die volledige foon was net so direk aan Vodacare oorhandig en ek het GEEN bewys stuk gekry dat hulle dit ingeneem het nie.

Ek het gevra om ‘n bestuurder te sien. ‘n Ene mnr Tobie Basson het my te woord gestaan. Hy het aan my gese dat ek die job kaart wat die dag aan my oorhandig was aan hom moet gee. Toe ek se dat ek nie ‘n jobkaart ontvang het nie- geen dokumente dat hulle die foon ingeneem het nie, het hy gese dat ek nie die waarheid praat nie. Ek het aan hom verduidelik dar ek op hierdie bepaalde oomblik ook nie enige bewysstuk het dat hy die foon aan my teruggegee het nie (hy het op die oomblik met al die papiere in sy hande gesit) maar dat ek wel die foon in my hande het. Dit is aangevoer as bewys dat hulle wel opslip om papiere te oorhandig. Hy het gese dat ek die foon aan hom moet teruggee, want hy gaan nie aan my die foon teruggee tensy ek 'n jobkaart aan hom toon nie. Ek het geweier. Ek het vir hom gese dat die foon korrespondeer met die jobnommer wat ek per sms ontvang het en ook my ID boek wat hulle onder oe gehad het.

Hy het gese dat hy my sal laat arresteer indien ek sy winkel verlaat met my (halwe) foon. Ek het gese dat ek nie gaan loop sonder dat ‘n volledige foon, soos wat ek aan hulle aanvanklik oorhandig het, aan my gegee word nie. Na ‘n langtyd wat ek gewag het en dit duidelik is dat ek nie gehelp gaan word nie, het ek mnr Basson laat roep en aan hom die halwe gedeelte van my foon (sonder die battery en agter cover) oorhandig en gese dat hy sal weer van my hoor.

Ek is uiters geskok en terleurgesteld hoe ek as klient hanteer was. Mnr Basson se arrogante en uitdagende houding hoort nie by ‘n persoon wat met die publiek deel nie.

Ek neem hierdie aangeleentheid met u op en hoop dat ek spoedig my volledige foon wat behoorlik herstel is sal terugkry.

Ria Venter

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vodacare telephone repair

On the 6th January 2009 I took my 2 and a half year old Palm Treo 650 to the Vaodacre shop at Paarl Mall for non warranty repairs. The telephone function on my phone would not activate / switch on. I received no rceipt or confirmation that the phone had been handed in to the Vodashop. The next day - 7th Jan. I contacted by Vodacare Tygelvalley and informed via SMS that my phone would be sent to Jo'Burg for the neccesary repairs. I phoned them for confirmation which was forwarded to me immediately by Janine via an e-mail. On 23 Jan I was notified by SMS that my phone had been repaired and was ready for collection at Paarl Mall. I collected the phone from them on Monday 26 Jan and paid the repair charge of R799.00. The phone would not switch on when I collected it from the Vodashop and it appeared that it needed to be charged. I took it home and charged it overnite, but the next morning the phone would not work either ! I immediately returned the phone to Vodashop. On 16 February I tried in vain at both Vodacare in Tygervalley and Vodashop Paarl Mall to ascertain when my phone would be ready. without any sucsess. I encountered a really disturbing " could not care less" attitude at Tygervalley Vodacare ! When I informed them that I would persue the matter further, I was told that I should go ahead ! The staff at Vadashop in Paar Mall - Lerisha - did not bother to return my call after promising to investigate the matter and getting back to me. To recap, the current siduation therefore is the following : My phone was handed in for repairs on the 6th of January 2009. The repairs were purported to have been completed on the the 23rd Jan. The repair bill was settled, in full on 26 Jan. On the 17th of February 2009 - 6 weeks down the line ! - I am still waiting for my phone to be repaired and no one seems to able, or interested in informing me as to how much longer this could take ! This attitude seems to me smack of monopolistic, corporate disintrest ! I do however beleive that my rights have been compromised. How can you charge someone for a repair that was not properly done !

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Aug 18, 2011 11:29 am EDT

I took in my phone for repairs about a month ago with vodacare (14 March 2011) and the people fixing it did not call me to inform me of what was happening. I was the one following up on phone and everytime i called i was told that by friday they should be done fixing my phone which is was blatant lie because till this day i still dont have my phone with me. Last friday i called and again was told that they will call me after 4 till today they have not called . I just called vodacare and they informed me that my phone wont be fixed under warrant and i will have to pay . I dont have a problem paying i just need to know when were they going to call me to tell me this ? I am very dissatisfied with the service i am receiving at the VODACARE IN PRETORIA CBD.

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Anthony Melly
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Jun 29, 2011 9:39 am EDT

I agree. I handed in my x10 for warranty repairs and i was told the battery was broken and not covered under the warranty, i proceeded to buy a new battery at R890 and the phone was still not working. Now i can't get an answer from anybody except that its the repair facility that told them what the problem was and they can't do anything and i must sort it out myself.

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daniel coimbra
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Mar 20, 2010 10:18 am EDT

I have had my sony erricson phone now for nearly 2 years, and untill then i have had endless problems with my phone. ive literally lost count on how many occasions ive sent my phone for repairs. The phone automatically restarts by itself evn when im on a phone call, it does this continuously that frustration is not even the word to explain it. This current phone i have is the 3rd new phone of the same model and yet it still has the same problems.Vodacare in alberton had informed me that the phone was repaired but yet after 3 phones still the same nonsense.I told vodacare that i was very unhappy about this phone that i am paying every month for a phone that barely works and just gives me headaches, i demanded that i wanted to cacel my contract or recieve a new phone of the same value(different make of phone) but was told that i would have to pay for cancelation. I am so frustrated that i even want to open up a campaing letting sony erricson that their products are faulty and not up to standard. What do i do? stick it out n carry on paying for aphone that barely works or what? please assist me on this matter, i have realy had enough of people waisting my time and patince.thank you.Danny-dan6nine@hotmail.com

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arunmatrix123
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Feb 21, 2010 3:51 am EST

I also faced the same problem. I bought HTC s710 from incredible collection at waterfall mall(rustenburg) on august 2009 . I'd faced alot mf problem like sim card missing error, screen blank, battery drain, . It is still in warranty so i handed it to vodacare near waterfall mall. But totally 3 times i got my phone back with out any results. Actually they just returning the phone. Ive still 17month warranty. Guys pls tell me wat to do. Email me @ arunmatrix123@gmail.com

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Mikael
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Jun 11, 2009 2:48 pm EDT

I have had a similar experience.

Vodacom Westgate (Gauteng) have had my Sony Ericsson phone for minor repairs for aout 2 months. During these 2 months I have had the phone back once, for a week, before the same problem occoured.

Every time i get told my phone is 'ready for collecion' I drive out to Westgate (about 35km there and back) only to get dissapointed with a phone thats not been fixed, or fix and put back together poorly. I paid the bill of R600 the first time I went to collect.
Aftr the forth time I went to collect my "repaired" phone I test it and the same problem occours. I have taken up the problem with the manager and phoned all the numbers but nothing seems to have been done. The 'I dont care' attitude in the shop is appauling and n-one seems to care.

Today i got it back again and the problem had been fixed, after trying to dial a number i realised that majority of my numeric keys and softkeys were faulty (these were not the problem i had when I gave the phone in). Now i have to drive all the way there and give my phone in for a 5th time. Im greatly annoyed by the shocking service and even worse customer care in the shop. The repairs seem to be done half-heartedly and dont ever last long. The phone has never come back repaired properly, the workmanship is terrible.

Vodacom has not lived up to its 24hour policy and all promises made have never been kept. I have the name of the tecnition who was ment to fix my phone, he has never phoned back when promised, despite my constnt phoning, i hve yet to receive any calls from him.

Does anyone know what acion can be taken against this? Its only a matter of time before people start posting complaints etc. on facebook and other social websites, then its going to be up for the whole world to see.

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