Cell C
Reviews and Complaints

i stay in queenstown and use cellc for the past 5years on difirrence cell numbers, the current problem im experiece is the network work coverage and not all the promotional items is available in the cellc store. for instance you guyse got an fast link moden on promotion but your store can not get supply, cause there is no fast network coverage for the internet especially. i currently had to settle with an mtn modem which is hellto slowly, but even if i can buy a cell c modem it will not realy make a different.at the cell c store in queenstown i was told that you guys did a coverage survey on cellphone coverage and the respond is that all network areas are covered in the queenstown area and surrounding towns, but not internet connection.so please look into it and correctify or upgrade the internet coverage in the queenstown area.i dont want to go to other networks and leave the one that im happy just because of an interrest that can be rectify.up to today i managed to positifly convinced made my family and friends to join the network, i dont think as they were convinced to join if they can go deeper in the network they will not be happy with what what they may discoverd buy then.

any kind of correspondence will i apreciate.

thanks concerned network client
Sam Smit
[protected]
[protected]@gmail.com
40 queens drive
queenstown
5319
31 september 2011
02h00 a.m

In February 2010 I made an arrangement with Cell C to do the payment of my outstanding account to them. The account then was R3715.94. I arrange with them payment of R300 per month untill the account was settled. Then after paying for 10 Months I phoned to find out what was the outstanding amount so that I can organise settlement of the account. After calling several times in November and December 2010 to the number provided on the letter 084 140 ext 1022 (Matshidiso Malinga) I could not get any response from them to get the settlement amount. Then I received a letter fom Pholosa credit solutions at the end of July 2011 ( it was dated 16 May 2011) that stated I was handed over by Cell C and that my outstanding amount now will be R6571.03 After that I contacted Pholosa now SEVERAL times to get the R3000.00 that I have paid subtracted and a new settlement amount so that I can do the final payment. I spoke to Pholosa's personal the forst time on the 04/08/2011 and after that almost twice a week. For every call, e-mail ect that I make to them they are charging me. I mailed my bank statements to them so that they can subtract the amount that I have paid to them and give me a settlement amount, but no reaction. Every time a different story. I suspect they are dragging this issue so that they can make money by handling this issue. Can you please help?

These people are total scammers, all they do is give an reiteration of the user's manual which you already possess in the user's manual this is ridiculous.We should all file a lawsuit against this company which can not fulfill its claim of money back guaranteed. This is just a false advertisement to trap the consumers to buy their lame software.

REF: [protected]

I phoned Cell C in June with regard to having my banking details changed from Standard bank to Absa. I have three contracts with Cell C. Two was taken in the same year and another a year later. The bill for the first two averages about R270 and the other amount is R150. Cell C says all calls are recorded for quality purposes so I am appealing to Cell C to please go and listen to my calls with the instructions for the change of banking details. And why was the two lines debited from the correct account and the other line not? Cell C debited my Standard bank account and I have to pay R115 bank charges for the unpaid amount.

Because of this unpaid I had to make a cash payment to Cell C which I did on the 15th of July. I then faxed proof of payment to Cell C on [protected] and I also phoned them to make sure everything was in order. Cell C confirmed that this will not happen again and that the new banking details had been captured. I logged my complaint and I still did not receive an answer as to why my banking detail wasn’t changed on the one account.

One the 26th of August I get a sms from my bank saying there is another unpaid because Cell C tried to debit my account for R150-00 and there was insufficient funds and then again I have been charged R115 bank charges. When I called the call center I was told that my account is in arrears and I needed to payment. So I didn’t make a fuss about this although I was a little confused because my debited order date is for the 30th of the month. I have trusted Cell C with my bank account allowing them to debit me on the 30th but they don’t even make one call to me saying that my account is in arrears and I need to make payment. So anyway I made a cash payment on Friday the 26th August (Attached proof of payment) with the reference number for [protected] because that was the line they said was in arrears. On Monday I spoke to Sybil and was told I have to wait till Friday for my line to activated.

When I look at my account I see that Cell C had forgotten to debit me on the 30th of July and suddenly someone picks this up and tries to debit me on the 25th. I want to know why was I not debited on the 30th of July and who gave Cell C permission to try and debited my account on the 25th without my permission? So I’m going to SUE Cell C for Breach of Contract. I also picked up that when I made the payment to the number in question that payment was allocated to the other two numbers and that’s why I was told I should wait till Friday the 2nd of September because this will give Cell C time to get another debit from my account on the 31st of August and they can quietly sort this unnecessary problem out.

As a customer I am very unhappy and pissed-off with Cell C for the attitude and manner in which they have managed my account. Seriously for R150 I now have to pay my bank R230 bank charges and also I have a bad credit rating and I am also due for a upgrade and because of this situation I now have to wait for three months, your sales team will not assist me because of these unpaid amounts. The server inconvenience that has been placed upon me and the stress that I went through have to call your call center numerous times and everytime you get cut-off I have to call again and keep repeating the same information to ten different people is very annoying.

I am awaiting your urgent reply and I promise to take this up further if need be.

Regards
Jessica Pillay
[protected] – Kindly contact me on this number.
[protected]
[protected]

I have a cellc phone and it was stolen yesterday, my husband used the phone with a vodacom sim card in his phone was damaged with water. The stole the phone out of his hand yesterday, phoned cell c this morning and they advised that because it was a vodacom simcard in the cell c phone i will not be able to claim for this phone! I feel it is not wright, as i pay everymonth for the cover! The other thing is one of the consultants from the tell trevor departmetn advised me that he will upgrade me on the 3rd of August due to a fault cell c made, and when it came to that date the consultant that helped me with that was no longer with cell c and now cell c just refuses to upgrade me and they say it was the consultant who made a mistake and they will not help me with the upgrade. I feel that it is not my mistake and they must still ge me the upgrade as i am the client and i did not make the mitake! Please will you look in to this for me, as i am very discussted in the servise i am getting from Cell C, it is getting wore by the day, they are quick enough to disconnect your line if there was an unpaid debit order but when you want to claim or something they just say sorry we can not help you!1

Hi,

please help me!

My name is Gschwend Slambert [protected]. Account number: 2534566 (R.Daly)

I have been trying to settle my account with Cell C and RL Daly with no success I have to say.

It has been back and forth for the past two weeks because no one can tell me what the outstanding amount on my account is. They talk about the money that I have paid them needs to be allocated first, but how long should I wait for this process. I am in the process of application at the bank.

I am not happy about this, can someone help me please?

In december 2010 cell c went onto a new system and our debit order did not go off, we received and sms from cell c to say they we must pay within 10 days, I sent an email to cell c to find out what the problem was as my bank did not return any debit orders and was told to ignore the sms as the problem was with their new system and that they would be rerunning the debit orders. At the end of december I noticed that the debit order was still not through and contacted cell c and was told to pay mannually and fax a copy of the recipt, which I did. Suddenly my phone was suspended and an indian man contacted me to find out what my banking details were. I advised him that I have had the contract for 3 years and been banking with the same bank for 20 years so my banking details that they have on they system should still be the same. (With so much telephone fraud now days one does not want to give out too much info). He told me that until I confirm my banking details and pay the outstanding bill my phone would not be switched on. I told him that the phone bill was up to date and that I could only owe the monthly contract amount as the phone has been off since december. I then contacted the contact centre and was told that my payments have been received and that my account is up to date, from april every month I receive a sms on my vodacom cell phone to say that I have been handed over to vcm for non payment of my cellphone account and I email all the proof of payments from december todate to them and the account was rectified and yet every month I get an sms, I was told by the consusltant that my monthly contrat was r145 and I have been paying r149 every month on the 20th. Today I received an sms again to say that I have been handed over to legal department and my name has been put onto the credit bureau... I contacted the contact centre and was told that they have been receiving my payments monthly and that they can see that they received another payment on the 22/07/2011 so why have I been handed over... An if they can contact me via sms on my vodacom dell number why has no one even tried to contact me before handing me over? I also used to receive my statements via email and in december the satatements stopped comming. I sent an email to cell c service centre and have had no reply from them either. I feel that cell c have not done anything to contact me at all and just felt it easier to list me yet they will be able to see that I have contacted them on a monthly basis. Everytime I get told that someone will get back to me and it is now july 2011 and I have had enough of their nonsense. I want someone to do something about this.

On the 8/7/2011 I went to cell c kolonnade to upgrade, and renew my contract to cell c. I also wanted to take out another contract on the speedstick. On applying for the new contract I was told that my account has been handed over to prelegal due to non payment. I pay may account monthly by internet banking and have proof of payment for every single months payment. So in front of aprox 10 people in the store I was told that due to non payment I can not take out a new contract. After numerous phone calls nothing happened. On monday 18th july we went back to cell c kolonnade to find out what is going on, they phoned again and another call was logged. Again a week later nothing happened. Eventually on thursday they phoned from prelegal to say the account was in arrears and we need to pay. I queried it again and was told they will log a call and phone me back. On friday 22 july I phoned the call centre again and spoke to a tiffany who said that the account has been rectified. On saturday 23 july I received a message from there attorneys stating that I was handed over and blacklisted. For nothing! Please people stay away from these thieves if you dont want to be blacklisted illegally!

Cell C in South Africa ran a "Dream Call" Competition that ended in May.

I have been receiving SMS' s every day since - announcing the so-called "winners"
The problem is that I'm being charged R1.50 EVERY time I receive this sms.

How can I be charged DAILY for a competition that ended in May?

This is proposterous, and could definitely be constituted as fraud.

I demand that my account be credited with the Airtime they took fraudulently.

R.Klopper

Good morning, I went to cell c canal walk on thursday 7 july after listening to a ad on an afrikaans radio station bok radio, they advertise a blackberry on a top-up 100 at certain cell c stores. Needles to say I went to canal walk and asked about this deal, I was told they don't know anything about it, maybe vodacom will know. Not even tried to find out.

I understand that this competition has come to an end in may. However I am still receiving daily sms' to this day - "that I have been intered into today's draw". Costing r1.50 per day.
I would like my account to credited with this monies, as this is fraud.

Sir/madam

1. The matter between me and cell c has the following reference.

2. In october 2009 I have received the billing letter from cell c stating that I must pay r1399.00 from their bill whereas the contract agreement was r99.00. I was so surprise when I discovered that I was subscribed with exact mobile that was billing me every minute.

3. I have contacted several cell c shops including colognade cell c shop in pretoria and they have failed to resolve the matter. I have requested cell c to pay the agreed amount excluding exact mobile and cell c denied and told me it was not possible to pay them without paying exact mobile. Then I decided to stop paying at all because I knew that I did not subscribe with exact mobile.

4. Then I referred the matter to my lawyers who referred me to icasa. Icasa referred me to waspa. Waspa told me in writing that the matter has been resolved with the service provider that’s exact mobile. So I went to cell c and told them that the matter has been resolved the only thing I want from them was to give me advice as to how to make payment to them of which they fail to come with the solution as the statement was still including the bill of exact mobile.

4. I am very much prepared to repay cell c as they are the people I entered the contract of r99.00 a month with and not exact mobile. I feel I was not treated fair by cell c in resolving the matter as there was no professional correspondence between them and myself. Their staff members were unable to give assistance to me even though I told them I was prepared to pay the bill that excludes exact mobile and today I have to go through their lawyers to settle the matter which is unfair to me.

Below is attached respond from waspa

Mrs m. Mngoma

Cell c - everything falls to deaf ears: !
To the point: after sending two emails, smsing to cells's call me back complaint short code, visiting the redbull cell c mobile store, the cell c customer office off rivonia road (Opposite maritz brothers) , and visiting dion wired hyde park where I bought the device, no-one gets back to me or can answer my question. I have also been told from an anonymous source that cell c know there is a bug in the device, but them or huawaei cannot solve it.
Please cell c - all I want is my paid for data to work when its meant to work.
I have many screen shots where I have full signal but no connectivity.
Trevor... Trevor... Trevor... Maybe you can use this complaint in your next stand up.
See attached screenshots - this complaint was sent using alwayson - which I now pay for over and above my cell c data.

Hi

Cell c has unlawfully blacklisted me for an account that is not mine & according to their legal department the account is also fully paid & inactive. They claim they haven't listed me even though I provided them with an mie & an itc report.
Cell c then promised to update itc accordingly & send me a letter confirming that my name was clear but this was in the beginning of 2011 & still I have not heard a word from the sp.
What’s sad is that this account belonged to my sister erica phora & the account has subsequently been fully paid. I am now struggling to apply for credit facilities because you have incorrectly blacklisted me.

Can someone in the legal department that knows their story correct this. This is unlawful & there are acts that guard consumers against service providers such as yourselves.

Regards

CELLC

My name is Savvatoula Petalas on the 31st of the 3rd menthe cell c debited my account with R1040.00 INCORRECTLY Three weeks ago I contacted Cell c with my problem, the consultant requested that I mail my bank statements through as proof witch I have done twice already IF YOU HAVE A LOOK ON YOU SYSTEM FOR THE PAST 3 WEEK IV BEEN CALLING IN NONE STOP IV EVEN GONE TO THE HEAD OFFICE IN PLATTERKLOOF CAPE TOWN, I have spoken to numerous consultants and Team leaders and supervisors

Each of these people made me promises that were not fulfilled promises that I will get my refund promises that the admin department and the billings department would return my call and last night I spoke to a Wayde Stoffell and his team leader Mompulelo Zunga who guaranteed me that I will get an answer by ten o’clock this morning Wednesday 04 2011 and once again no one has bothered to call me.

As far as imp concerned I AM SICK AND TIRED OF YOUR VERY POOR SERVICE NEVER MIND THE FACT THAT CELL C HAS MADE ME SHORT OF PAYING MY OTHER ACCOUNTS DUE TO THERE INCORRECT DEBIT ORDER WICH I AM STILL WAITING FOR.

IM SENDING YOU THIS EMAIL TO NOTIFY YOU OF THE CANCELLATION OF MY CONTRACT I WILL STOP ALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS AND IF CELL C CUTS MY LINE OR BLACK LISTS ME I WILL GO TO THE OMBUDSMAN AND WILL CONSALT A LAWYER. I WILL NO LONGER LISTEN TO CELL C EMPTY PROMISES AS FAR AS IM CONCERND YOU ARE IN BREACH OF YOUR OWN CONTRACT BY DEBITING MONEY THAT IS NOT DUE AND STILL OVER A MONTH LATER IM STILL AWAITING MY REFUND. AND THE EXCUSE THAT THEY NEED TO FIND THE PROBLEM INORDER TO REFUND ME CELL C HAS COST ME PETROLL MONEY DRIVING UP AND DOWN TO TRY AND SORT OUT A PROBLEM THAT CELL C HAS CREATED ASWELL AS COSTING ME MONEY EVERYTIME TO REQUEST BANK STATEMENTS AND MONEY FOR THE FAXES IV SENT THROUGH. IM AM SERIOUSLY VERY ANNOID AND IM NOT LEAVING THIS IN CELL C HANDS ANYMORE AS THIS IS THE WORST SERVICE IV EVER HAD VIA ANY SERVICE PROVIDER OR RETAIL STORE.

Savva Petalas
National Groceries operationa manageress
( Cell) [protected]
[protected]
Fax to Email [protected]

I ran a credit check on myself about a week ago. Turns out that I have been blacklisted by Cell C on an account that has been indeed settled in full on 18 August 2010. I still have a copy of my proof of settlement (and also confirmed this again with Select Online). I have been trying to get 8n tough with the legal department of Cell C for almost 48 hours now.. ...nobody answers the phones. I have left numerous messages with operators etc. Everybody just tells me that the leagl department will phone me back...NO results.

All I want to do is clear my name. I am stronly considdering leagl procedings against Cell C for wrongfully blacklisting me.

I have been calling the call centre every week for the past 4 months. I am trying to do a migration to a package i was previously on. I get told that i will be contacted by the credit department within 48hrs. I call in every week. I don not receive any calls back from cellc. My bill is now over R2000 A month. I have not paid my last bill and will not. Cell c has to compensate me for the past 4 months. Will only pay when cell c contacts me regarding this matter.

Repairs of 3 weeks, now months later
Phone model: lg (Red) phone to cellc in maynard mall, wynberg, cape town s. A
History of the matter: the phone broke during the period of the guarantee and was handed in for repairs in november 2010 with which we received a 90 day repair gurantee. The phone then had the same problem that was supposedly repaired in the 90 day repair guarantee. I took the phone back in early march 2011 and was told that it will take 3 weeks, after the 4th week I became worried and upon enquiry was told that they still waiting for it from the cellc repairs shop. I went there about 21 - 30 times to go check and up till today have not receive the phone back. I received a phone call from one, candace from the repair shop and was told that the phone was not repairable and she offer me a lower grade phone, the offer was unacceptable and I was referred back to the wynberg cellc shop. I was then told that the owner, mr. Oswald is not willing to make a decision and neither he nor the repair shop ever came back to me. Please furnish details of the person with who I must deal with at the head of cellc. I am no fed-up of this or alternatively I am referring this case to the ombudsman and the media. Bad publicity of a cellc branch could damage their market as they are damaging my daughter's carreer. Mrs susan adonis, cape town south africa

Dear All'
This is the most worst company i ever had a contract with. My contract expired last year June, i asked them if i could upgrade they said no because my sim card is reported stolen with my phone but they still billed me every month for 24 months. I was surprised that after the 24 months was over that they still debited my account i went to the Head Office and enquired about it the gentleman told me that if your contract expires they put you on a month to month i said i was not happy with that and we cancelled the contract immediately at Cell C Head Office. Yesterday i was informed that they had put a ADVERSE against my name on the Credit Bureu for wahat i don't know.
please assist me in this .LAA'IQAH NORDIEN