Iburst the WORST

WendyCelliers

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Iburst must be the worst company with service!!!! Cancelled end of November 2010, faxed the cancellation letter to retentions, heard nothing. December during the month tried to phone Iburst lots of different times. Either phone gets put down in my ear, or it just rings and rings (some times I kept on for 20minutes listening to stupid music) And this was from my CELLPHONE!!!!!! At last I got hold of someone just before the end of December (took long enough) But then again, I spend 3 hours holding, phoning, getting the phone put down in my ear, but I persisted. She said no, there is nothing on the system! I then send her the proof, heard nothing. Then again in January a payment goes down, I cancelled debit order at bank. Tried again phoning, no luck. Gave up, send mail again, no luck. Busy with business, so tried again yesterday when I saw another premium of R1922 or something go down. (january and Februarie fee). I tried from 12h30 till 15h00 to get hold of someone, and managed to speak to Zannee. She said she understood and I must email her. Now, today, I got a generic email again from Iburst (retentions@iburst) to say I must pay the money or else!!!!! Zannee never looked at it! Worst is, she gave me the wrong email address. Send my email to 10 different iburst addresses saying "PLEASE FORWARD TO ZANNEE" Why did I do this? Bacause when the email would not go through, I tried to get hold of her again, took another hour untill I gave up.......I send Iburst all the proof of cancellation (fax letterhead etc etc). WATCH OUT FOR IBURST!!! All good and well when you are with them, but, when you cancel, you loose lots of money and have serious headaches. They are so unprofessional and need to get staff that knows how to answer phones, and be professional! If an Iburst rep sees this email (IF), my username was [email protected]
 
Also, I am now with another ISP. I can cancel on their webpage, no hassles. Easy to understand. When I phone there is someone on the other side that listens and understands!!!!!!!! What happened to Iburst :( I mean, now I must communicate through forums to hope and pray to get a response from someone that has manners (manners in the sence of answering a phone, not to put the phone down when trying to phone) I allready complaint on Hellopeter.com, also to Iburst headoffice (found emails on internet, send a few to different people, 80% of the emails was non-existent allready so was returned as undelivered) Only way now will be to pay my laywer R1000 to handle this, but he guarantees the case will be sorted since I did not have a contract, and also have proof of the 30days notice (which I did not have to do to start with). But, why go through all of this?
 
As per their website, their address since 28th June 2010 :

3012A William Nicol Drive,
Tiger Brands 2,
Bryanston

Would've been better paying them a visit, if you live in JHB.
 
OP, please... tell us how you really feel.

Jokes aside, there are a couple of iBurst folk on the boards. Maybe one of them will get in touch...
 
Welcome to the forums, Wendy. Apologies for you experience with support. I have requested that the customer services manager contact you.

Regards

Wendy my recommendation is that you communicate with r00gev@@r re. this matter. He has helped me in the past and like *sadly left iBurst* Shaun Green, really goes the extra mile, to try and resolve your issues.

I agree with you that their accounts department has been, and still is a complete shambles. It's fine if you stay on one package or upgrade, but when downgrading or cancelling there are major SNAFU's. I personally had a almost 2-3 year running battle with iBurst and their accounts dept going (The posts are there in the history here), especially when Jannie v Zyl was CEO. I thought this would have been all sorted by now, but apparently it's not.

In the end I came to the conclusion that it was utterly useless phoning the accounts dept. to try and get results. Same issues, no answer, put on hold & calls terminated while I was waiting, incompetent systems and/or staff when i finally managed to get through etc.
Where I did get results though is via this forum and at the time, Shaun Green, the iBurst rep.

So PM r00igev@@r and keep this thread going until your issues have been sorted.
 
normally I would be first on the Iburst hate wagon, but I agree with Gekco ^.
 
Hi Wendy,

I sent you PM last week requesting your contact details as the ones we have on the system don't work.
Kindly send me your contact details.
 
normally I would be first on the Iburst hate wagon, but I agree with Gekco ^.

the fact that you have to communicate through a 3rd party forum site in order to get through to your ISP is a load of bull and in itself shows the level of ineptitude/apathy within iBurst. Ronald is on permenant damage control here and it's completely pathetic. What about the customers who don't use this site? Looks like Wendy created her account here for the sole purpose of actually getting her issue known.

I can't wait for the CPA, iBurst is gonna S#@* bricks

if OP has full documentation of her cancelation, I would also suggest laying a charge of theft against iBurst for the money they illegally removed.
 
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the fact that you have to communicate through a 3rd party forum site in order to get through to your ISP is a load of bull and in itself shows the level of ineptitude/apathy within iBurst. Ronald is on permenant damage control here and it's completely pathetic. What about the customers who don't use this site? Looks like Wendy created her account here for the sole purpose of actually getting her issue known.

I can't wait for the CPA, iBurst is gonna S#@* bricks

if OP has full documentation of her cancelation, I would also suggest laying a charge of theft against iBurst for the money they illegally removed.

agree 100% with this. Ronald is very helpful, but the way issues are handled now is just not sustainable in the long run. What happens when Ronald goes on leave?
 
or when Ronald resigns? If I were him I probably would, regardless of the cash (which one assumes has to be alot!). When iBurst works, things are good. But the fact that they attract so much rage is an indication of how poor the customer service and the reliability of service is. It must be the #1 problem at iBurst and I cant believe personally that it has stayed so poor for so long.
 
or when Ronald resigns? If I were him I probably would, regardless of the cash (which one assumes has to be alot!). When iBurst works, things are good. But the fact that they attract so much rage is an indication of how poor the customer service and the reliability of service is. It must be the #1 problem at iBurst and I cant believe personally that it has stayed so poor for so long.

If you have any ideas to make it better, please feel free to suggest. I fully understand the dissatisfaction about poor customer service and respectfully request a mature and objective conversation to make it better.

I wake up in the morning switch on my laptop and read the news on BBC. Along the route no packet touches Telkom. How many people can claim that? That makes be fell good.
 
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