This is really a hellopeter thing, but my wife already posted there, so I'll spread the word here. If you have a debit order going to ABSA for anything, try to stop it so long. By the time it should actually stop you may have the attention of someone high up who can actually stop it.
On advice from a friend whose debit order kept going after his student loan was normally repaid (nothing funny like early payments), my wife and I decided to jump the gun and repay her loan (which had just two payments left) and close it in one go to prevent this.
So, a normal ABSA branch shows you the door and directions to the student branch in Hatfield. The student branch seems to hit a panic when you talk about paying them. As it turns out, they (a bank branch) have no facilities to handle payments. They're good at sucking in students, though.
We transferred the remaining balance to the account (as instructed) and followed up a week later after not hearing anything like promised. We followed up, got a surprised person X. Later we heard due to a R4 imbalance the account cannot be closed. Another promise was made about the R4 being paid back and the account then closed.
Guess what happened this morning. The debit order went off. Now we have to grovel and groan to get a lot of money back. What if we lost our jobs and that money was supposed to feed us this month?
On advice from a friend whose debit order kept going after his student loan was normally repaid (nothing funny like early payments), my wife and I decided to jump the gun and repay her loan (which had just two payments left) and close it in one go to prevent this.
So, a normal ABSA branch shows you the door and directions to the student branch in Hatfield. The student branch seems to hit a panic when you talk about paying them. As it turns out, they (a bank branch) have no facilities to handle payments. They're good at sucking in students, though.
We transferred the remaining balance to the account (as instructed) and followed up a week later after not hearing anything like promised. We followed up, got a surprised person X. Later we heard due to a R4 imbalance the account cannot be closed. Another promise was made about the R4 being paid back and the account then closed.
Guess what happened this morning. The debit order went off. Now we have to grovel and groan to get a lot of money back. What if we lost our jobs and that money was supposed to feed us this month?
