Help create a cancelation letter to Telkom

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I can't wait for the day when I can finally walk into my local Telkom office and cancel everything I have been forced to take with them. I do not plan to do it over the phone, because that would reduce my pleasure. So I thought that while I am waiting for SNO to get their act together I would begin work on my cancellation letter. Perhaps some of you wouldn't mind contributing one line each to the letter. So I will start.......and if you all could just add on one extra sentence that would be great.

Dear Telkom,

It is with extreme pleasure that I wish to cancel my line with you.
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Thank you telkom for raping me, my country, and 3 generations of my family.
Your attention and commitment to always find us and extort every last cent out of our pockets is noted.
 
Telkomhater said:
Dear Telkom,

It is with extreme pleasure that I wish to cancel my line with you. May you burn in hell. Thank you Telkom for raping me, my country, and 3 generations of my family. Your attention and commitment to always find us and extort every last cent out of our pockets is noted.
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.... I look forward to my first Telkom-free month. I feel like it's Christmas all over again!
 
PostmanPot said:
if you try to be a smart-ass, telkom will never let go of you..
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I think the Potty Postman may be on to something here. In a fleeting moment of insanity late last year, I considered reconnecting my Telkom line. For some unknown reason they demanded an R800 deposit - which they had not wanted before. I don't know if maybe this deposit story is a new 'across the board' policy for all new connections though.
 
Debbie2 said:
For some unknown reason they demanded an R800 deposit - which they had not wanted before. I don't know if maybe this deposit story is a new 'across the board' policy for all new connections though.
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I think that unless you are an existing subscriber with a good payment record, they look you up on Experian credit bureau and require a deposit in relationship to your credit score. They tried it on me when I moved city because the old account had been in my wife's name, and they had no record of me, and I got some kind of cr@p rating on Experian because I do not run accounts. The clerk signing me up let me watch the process on her monitor.
 
"For some unknown reason they demanded an R800 deposit - which they had not wanted before."

I took out a line in August 2004 and they didn't want a deposit as recently as that. But they wanted it in August 2005.
 
Debbie2 said:
"For some unknown reason they demanded an R800 deposit - which they had not wanted before."

I took out a line in August 2004 and they didn't want a deposit as recently as that. But they wanted it in August 2005.
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R800!
That is quite a lot to ask someone for a deposit.
Thought only the Government like Eskom could get away with that.
But hang on isn't Telkom basically Government.
So yes a ridiculous deposit of R800 is to be expected of the Monopoly.

A basic telephone service has just become even more unaffordable for the low income groups.

I wonder how Telkom came up with R800.
It surely cannot be for the Telephone or Telephone Line.
Telkom does not provide a telephone any more and the wire to the exchange has been paid for countless times.
It can only be for those customers that use a telephone and then abscond, leaving an unpaid bill perhaps?

I hope when the SNO gets it act together that this Deposit Fee gets competitively waived.
 
BTTB said:
R800!

I wonder how Telkom came up with R800.... It can only be for those customers that use a telephone and then abscond, leaving an unpaid bill perhaps?
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Yeah well at the time I did have R1 owing to Telkom....(but only received the R1 bill the following month).
 
Debbie2 said:
Yeah well at the time I did have R1 owing to Telkom....(but only received the R1 bill the following month).
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Naughty you.:D

Was that the bill you were going to pay off 5c per month?

I hope you know that there is some shareholder at Telkom that has been done in by a few cents by your unpaid bill.:p
 
R800? and we wonder why the disadvantaged dont have phones, if this is the type of finance one needs to secure a land-line, the government should be ashamed of themselves.
 
Sneeky said:
R800? and we wonder why the disadvantaged dont have phones, if this is the type of finance one needs to secure a land-line, the government should be ashamed of themselves.
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That deposit only applies to special people ;)

Maybe Telkom bases itself on the conduct of your previous account?
 
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