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Solidarity ditches Absa
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Venomous
Honorary Master
I will never deal with ABSA again....
had a student loan with them. They took money when they wanted to. I complained at that time i was not earning much & having them take what amount they wanted to 2-3 times a month was just to much. I complained. They said that I should ensure that there was no money in my account for 3 months as that is the number of extra payments they took. I did this (was a pain in the butt drawing my money before the debit order date & then to rebank afterwards. End of the 3rd month came. I went to deposit my money again & got told my account was closed coz of insuff. funds for deit order.
:wtf: i was following their instructions. i refused to open another account there & walked to another bank & opened a new account.
have also had some issues using their ATMs. There's no way you can withdraw R100(for agument's sake at 10:01). The R100 then shows twice on your bank account & then on investigation the R100 was done twice @ 10:01. It takes longer than a min to draw cash....
to many bad experiences.
had a student loan with them. They took money when they wanted to. I complained at that time i was not earning much & having them take what amount they wanted to 2-3 times a month was just to much. I complained. They said that I should ensure that there was no money in my account for 3 months as that is the number of extra payments they took. I did this (was a pain in the butt drawing my money before the debit order date & then to rebank afterwards. End of the 3rd month came. I went to deposit my money again & got told my account was closed coz of insuff. funds for deit order.
:wtf: i was following their instructions. i refused to open another account there & walked to another bank & opened a new account.
have also had some issues using their ATMs. There's no way you can withdraw R100(for agument's sake at 10:01). The R100 then shows twice on your bank account & then on investigation the R100 was done twice @ 10:01. It takes longer than a min to draw cash....
to many bad experiences.
blunomore
Honorary Master
I will never deal with ABSA again....
had a student loan with them. They took money when they wanted to. I complained at that time i was not earning much & having them take what amount they wanted to 2-3 times a month was just to much. I complained. They said that I should ensure that there was no money in my account for 3 months as that is the number of extra payments they took. I did this (was a pain in the butt drawing my money before the debit order date & then to rebank afterwards. End of the 3rd month came. I went to deposit my money again & got told my account was closed coz of insuff. funds for deit order.
:wtf: i was following their instructions. i refused to open another account there & walked to another bank & opened a new account.
have also had some issues using their ATMs. There's no way you can withdraw R100(for agument's sake at 10:01). The R100 then shows twice on your bank account & then on investigation the R100 was done twice @ 10:01. It takes longer than a min to draw cash....
to many bad experiences.
They are truly pathetic and mediocre.
I got an SMS asking me to collect my new credit card and to bring along my proof of income and proof of address. Why?? I am RICA compliant, you don't need that again!
About 2 weeks after I collected the card (which they gave without asking the things mentioned in their SMS), I get another SMS asking me to collect the same card. No cross-communications between branches and the card division!!
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lol, you just fixed it. Fair enough.
Goliath
Expert Member
How's about an option on the poll: I've already left ABSA. Please?
You had to pay to get it closed?
Good thing that as I worked for them a few years ago, I knew that after 3 or more months they'd automatically close mine
At no cost to me. Fsck 'em!
Yep.. i paid extra to get it closed.. just hearing the name ABSA is making me bitter, wonder if they realise they are losing so much clients..
Also left ABSA recently. I have huge debit orders that use to cost more than 30 bucks each. Every month it was adding up to +-R700. Now with Capitec I pay no more than R50 on the same transactions. What is even better I get the R50 back in interest earned(I keep a positive balance). I also like the fact that with Capitec I have one account unlike with ABSA, I can save on the same transactional account...
The only downside with Capitec is their Internet Banking. I am so used to paying bills online and they don't have that option.
The only downside with Capitec is their Internet Banking. I am so used to paying bills online and they don't have that option.
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