Disgusting service from Iburst and still not resolved

Zodiak

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:mad:Unbelievable, I have been with I-Burst for 3 years now, served my 2 year contract and decided to stay even though I had a nightmare with billing from them for the first year (double billing, triple billings, all sorts, crap service etc.) but things were ok for the last year....

Until now, I get my invoice yesterday and I am being overcharged by an extra R200 so I call and the lady there says I chose a VAS package which I never requested, so I told her to tell me when and how I requested this because I didn't and want this removed and I didn't want to be charged, she tells me that I have to prove that I didn't request this. The reality is that I don't have to prove anything because I never requested it, they need to prove that I requested this, eventually I spent 20 minutes holding on my cell (R60 airtime later) I get put through to Gift a TL in Iburst accounts who said they will credit this and it was an error.

Then I call back wanting to speak to Gift because I was still on the old 5 Gig package and decided that I might as well look at upgrading. Gift was busy so I asked for a call back, guess what nobody bothered to call me back (I spoke to Gugu in the call centre when I requested this call back). I then call back and get through to the same Gugu, so I ask her why didn't Gift call me back and she flat out lies to me stating that I never spoke to her and she is a different Gugu but I could here by the voice and the way she spoke that it is the same person I spoke to.... Anyways, I asked to be transferred to Retentions who can help me upgrade.

I spoke to Dudu there who said that she will sort this and will phone me back in the morning. She phoned me this morning and tells me that I now have the Uncapped for R599 and my current package running at the same time for the remainder of this month, so on 1 May I will be billed about 1.5 months (R900 for the uncapped service) but I also already paid R445 for my current package. So I said look can't we start the uncapped service from 1 May she says no they can't forwardward date these things. I asked to speak to a manager after she started speaking over me and apparently there are no managers available at all. Then she put me on hold and cut the call, I called back twice asking for people in the call centre to send Dudu a message to call me back, it has been over 30 minutes and she hasn't bothered to phone, last time I phoned I asked to be transferred to Dudu, the call got cut again....

Now I don't know what's happening with my packages, my billing and nobody in Iburst seems to give a cr@p. So I think I will be looking for an alternative ISP in the meantime for this cr@p service unless somebody bothers to contact me and resolve this today....
 
This is exactly why I ran as fast as I could when my 2 year contract expired.
Same billing mess as you and even a year after I cancelled my contract they continued to debit my bank account EVEN THOUGH I HAD TOLD THEM TO FIX THEIR #$%^ EVERY MONTH OF THAT YEAR!

All this mess was after they "shifted" their antennae away from my residential area to a more lucrative one. Signal strength went from 90% to 20% or basically amazing to unusable.

Anyways. Hope this will steer people away from Iburst and their crappy service.
 
+1 I called back numerous times to speak to this Dudu person and she just never bothered to phone me back, eventually I got through a decent sales consultant who explained to me what needs to happen etc. But after 2 days of B.S. service and over R100 airtime spent on getting a reversal on the overbill of R200 and to try and upgrade your account.... Eish, I have nothing left to say. Crap-Burst ruined it for themselves....
 
To also add, I e-mailed all 3 IBurst e-mail addresses with this detailed complaint this morning, not a single response from Accounts, Helpdesk and Sales lol....
 
Lol ya, still waiting for a call back or even an acknowledgement of my complaint via e-mail.... Nothing as expected.
 
Surprise surprise I get woken up today with a mid month random bill of R399 after I paid R445 on 1 April.... WTF!!!! HelloPeter here I come, still no response to my previous complaint from anybody there, PATHETIC!!!!! I will make you guys pay for my bank charges, for my cell phone bill calling you and refund me all the money you overcharged me! ADSL is the way clearly, these b@stards still can't get their billing and servicing sorted after 3 years!
 
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