My Bitch for the weekend...

[riaan_pta]

[bitch on] I have spend hundreds (no - thousands) of SA rands on Telkom in the past 10 years.

This is my sad story - please skip if in a hurry or easlily offended:

I applied for my very first Telkom landline in 1994. I waited 23 months for my phone - 3 months after installation I was cut off due to owing the organisation R72 (according to them).

Four years later I moved to the Eastern suburbs of Pta and applied for a landline again. This time I only waited 17 months - 3 months later I was cut off for owning the organisation R51 (according to them).

In 2001 I moved to a townhouse in Pta east. I applied for a landline -waited 10 months and then finally got my line. Got cut of later due to owning R142 in outstanding installation fees (their story).

I have now been living in my own place for 2 years. Applied for an ADSL line 3 months before I moved - Waited 8 months and finally got my line - Had a moerse fight with Telkom for being charged for a self-install.... Eventually I got cut off for owning then just over R842 in ADSL installation and re-activation fees (sad thing is, I signed a debit order...).

Long sad story - point being.... I can not wait to move to Neotel/GTS or any other service. Even of Telkom were 5000% cheaper than it's nearest rival, I would still rather pay it's nearest rival to keep me connected. [/bitch off]

I wish the english language could describe the contempt I feel for this useless organization… I would rather (physically) urinate on R100 notes and then feed then to hungry Ethiopian pigs before I ever, ever, ever (in a few monts time of course) hand them over to Telkom again…

 

[Kasyx]

Amen to that.

 

[LabAnimal]

... Why exactly would you get cut off for R72? or for R51? or even R142... I can understand the R842 but not the rest - its smallchange! compaired to some of the scary bills i've received from K*mTel...

have to agree with you - when there's another option, i WILL move to something NON telkom.

 

[Myrrdin]

I thought you had a picture of your bitch for the weekend.

Oh well on to the next thread.

 

[psheldon]

You had a DEBT order with them??? You mean you TRUST the government? I don't even trust my goverment (wife)

My Sympathies

regards
peter

 

[Kasyx]

Because without his R51, Telkom might be just off their R18billion net profit for 2006.

 

[RSnow]

Heh. Something similar happened to me.
I got my first landline in 1995, around June. Went on holiday in September, didn't have time to get to a Telkom shop before I left, so I gave the cash to one of my friends and asked him to go and pay for it. He did. Got the receipt and everything. It was something like R70 or so. Nothing spectacular. I got cut off the evening before christmas day, after everyone at Telkom had already knocked off for the holidays. (They only came back around the 6th of Jan or so, so I sat without a telephone for that period.)
The worst of all is that I recieved accounts from Telkom after that payment that did reflect the payment. So they did recieve it, and knew about it too. Took me about a week of arguing with them to get them to cancel the reconnection fee as well. I promptly cancelled my line, and went and got myself a cellphone instead. Only got a Telkom line again a couple of years ago, when I got married, and my wife wanted to be able to talk to her mother on the other side of the country. Telkom works out SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper for that...
If there was a viable alternative (price wise) to Telkom, I'd switch without even giving it a second thought. It wouldn't even have to be cheaper. Just reasonably priced (which the wireless services I can get in my area, unfortunately aren't.) Ah well.