Webafrica shocking service! Avoid at all costs

womo

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I have just had the pleasure of dealing with Webafrica again after I swore I would never return to them. It all started last year when I hosted a few sites with them. Their customer service has to be some of the worst in SA, I have never spoken to people so unfriendly in my life.

It got to the point where my calls were just going unanswered so I cancelled my service only to have them keep billing me and then threaten me for failure to pay, when I had sent confirmation emails back and fourth confirming my wish to cancel, WHICH I THEN PRODUCED, AND WAS GIVEN NO APOLOGY OF ANY KIND. They also enjoy sending me their spam bull**** emails to this day.

I just wanted to try their Mailfire service out, I thought it could help me layout and send some online mailers and then maybe I would use them for my bulk sending.

All i wanted to do was send ONE!!! test email, yes just ONE! and I am still sitting here 30 hours later, over 20 calls with obnoxious rude call centre staff and two supervisors who were worse. With not one returned call, and not EVEN ONE TEST EMAIL SENT. [I HAVE SCREEN SHOTS SHOWING A TEST EMAIL SITTING FROM YESTERDAY STILL UNSENT]

If they cant even send one email in 30 hours how the hell can they handle large bulk sending, and their staff just refuse to deal with the problem in anyway. It is absolutely ridiculous. I AM STILL SITTING HERE WAITING TO HEAR WHAT THE PROBLEM IS

Even after threatening to cancel my service and requesting a refund all I was told is FINE DO IT!

Webafrica is a bloody disgrace to SA Business and all I can say is do yourself a favour and use someone else anyone else.

If you have had to deal with these obnoxious, rude, painful people before and have found someone better please post the company below.

I WILL NEVER GO BACK TO WEBAFRICA AGAIN AND ADVISE YOU NOT TO
 
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I have just had the pleasure of dealing with Webafrica again after I swore I would never return to them. It all started last year when I hosted a few sites with them. Their customer service has to be some of the worst in SA, I have never spoken to people so unfriendly in my life.

It got to the point where my calls were just going unanswered so I cancelled my service only to have them keep billing me and then threaten me for failure to pay, when I had sent confirmation emails back and fourth confirming my wish to cancel, WHICH I THEN PRODUCED, AND WAS GIVEN NO APOLOGY OF ANY KIND. They also enjoy sending me their spam bull**** emails to this day.

Now lets get to the new mistake I made yesterday, I just wanted to try their Mailfire service out, I thought it could help me layout and send some online mailers and then maybe I would use them for my bulk sending.

All i wanted to do was send ONE!!! test email, yes just ONE! and I am still sitting here 30 hours later, over 20 calls with obnoxious rude call centre staff and two supervisors who were worse. With not one returned call, and not EVEN ONE TEST EMAIL SENT. [I HAVE SCREEN SHOTS SHOWING A TEST EMAIL SITTING FROM YESTERDAY STILL UNSENT]

If they cant even send one email in 30 hours how the hell can they handle large bulk sending, and their staff just refuse to deal with the problem in anyway. It is absolutely ridiculous. I AM STILL SITTING HERE WAITING TO HEAR WHAT THE PROBLEM IS

Even after threatening to cancel my service and requesting a refund all I was told is FINE DO IT!

Webafrica is a bloody disgrace to SA Business and all I can say is do yourself a favour and use someone else anyone else.

If you have had to deal with these obnoxious, rude, painful people before and have found someone better please post the company below.

I WILL NEVER GO BACK TO WEBAFRICA AGAIN AND ADVISE YOU NOT TO

Really?
I have had great service from them.
But I did change over from Openweb which has NO service at all..
 
Yip cancelled my 30GB account and got billed again this month!!!

think they can't keep up with all the cancellations LOL
 
Really?
I have had great service from them.
But I did change over from Openweb which has NO service at all..

Same.

Logic dictates that when harassed by irate customers one can only remain friendly for SO long before sounding unpleasant. The last time I dealt with customer services, I was called back on my cell phone to save ME costs while configuring my setup. I've had worse service than that elsewhere.

Common decency seems to be less common than we can hope for.

So far I've had nothing but great service from: Axxess, Afrihost, Web Africa
 
Hi womo

Thank you for raising your concerns and it troubles me to hear of the experience you have had.

I sincerely apologise in the manner your request was handled. I would like to assist you from now on trying to resolve any outstanding queries you might have. Please can you PM me your client code in order for me to investigate this thoroughly. Once your query has been resolved, I will contact you with feedback as to what I have found.

Once again, I do apologise for the inconvenience this has caused you.
 
Hi womo

I have not received a PM from you as requested in my previous post, can you please PM me as I would really like to assist you regarding your query.
 
Lol. I had a 30GB IS account. The other day I received a call from webafrica billing department. the lady said. When are you paying your account Sir.

I'm like what?

When are you paying your account Sir. Its been due since August 2008.

Ive cancelled that account.

No you didn't. Its still active. When can we expect a payment.

Me Hung up the phone. After she had been so Rude.
 
I hate it when I get a canned response, not related to my enquiry from Web Africa. Clearly show the person sending the response have no idea what I am talking about. Wow I am really bad at communicating. Initially the service from Web Africa was great. But that wave is now surf that dissappeared into the sand.
 
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