Makro Online
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The WORST SERVICE EVER!
DO NOT PURCHASE ONLINE FROME MAKRO!
Purchased a Fridge for R12999.00 on 25 Nov 2021 online and til today 09/12/2021 i have not yet received the PAID Fridge, when i phone and follow up i am being told that the fridge is with the courier WUM Drop which also seems to not be able to tell anyone ANYTHING!
When asking Makro for a refund i am told that it would take 7 to 14 business days to process the refund.
I have been phoning since last week and keep getting the same info but nothing is happening!

Online order #MAK3303253
Placed the order on Thursday 25 November 2021. Delivery estimated at 3-7 working days.

Have folllowed up on NUMEROUS occassions and keep gettinge excuses like "Black Friday", limited stock, staff on strike etc.

Firstly, Black Friday should never be an issue. If you cannot handle the capacity and logistics, then don't take part in Black Friday.

The website now says "Place your order before 8 Dec 2021 for pre-Christmas delivery. " How can the company make this promise if orders placed TWO WEEKS ago are still IN PROGRESS!

Service levels are ridiculous! I want a definitive answer as to when our Stove and Hob will be received!

I made a purchase on the 24/11/2021 at Makro Silverlakes and paid for delivery 8km to my house. Apparently deliveries were too busy and they could only arrange it for Monday 29/11/2021.
Then on Saturday 27/11/2021 they decided to deliver, no call before to find out if it is ok. Just showed up at my complex called to say the delivery is waiting to be accepted.
I was not home and we had arrangements for delivery on Monday. There have been no contact after that, I tried the numbers available 0860 300 999 or 0860 600 999 I suggest no one waste their time and airtime calling this number because no one will answer.
I had to take off work and go to the store which was just another waste of my time as no manager will show up, the staff at the customer care desk called all over the shop and each person pushed them to the next until they finally pushed me to the next place directing me out the building to go speak to some other person who might or might not be there at online delivery.

Friday 3/12/2021 I received a call asking if I have been assisted and the lady said she arrange delivery for Monday 6/12/2021 which I agreed to, then in the afternoon as I sit in my meeting at work the makro delivery guy calls from my gate with my delivery.

I am highly upset with makro service, firstly there is no customer loyalty, theres no assistance. I've reported this on the WhatsApp number as well, they take all the details and never call.
I want my Purchase or I want my money.

Order Number MAK3259920.

I orderd a bicycle online for my 7 year old. A 20" bike that was on specail.

Let me give some background. My girl sold her old bike and saved for the whole year, to buy an new fitting bike. As the old one got to small.

We ordered on the 1st of November. The 17th the courier delivered. With much disappointed it was the wrong bike. It is a 12" with side wheels.
Picture on the box is correct but not what was inside. We phoned customer service and logged the return. The same day. 17th November 2021. And send (I don't know how many) emails. With no feed back what soever on when we will recieve the correct bike and what must I do with the wrong bike? Nothing nothing nothing.
I ask for feedback on email . As I work with small children during the week. Jus for incase. No feedback emails. And I can say. That there was no calls to my phone. Please advise what must I do. Today is the 3rd of December.

Note. The box we received. Is, as is. We took nothing out. As we could clearly see it was the wrong bike. We closed the box and sealed with tape.

I made an order on Monday 29 November and the order was delivered to me today but the order is not complete ...only R79 worth of the R508 goods I ordered got delivered and was invoiced. I tried calling the Makro number over and over but it was not going through.

At this point it is an inconvenience to me as I needed the goods by Friday and yet I am still waiting on most of it and my money is gone.

Very disappointed.

Good Day

I am a first time Makro customer. Having just made my very first purchase of a R16000 laptop, I found the product to be unsatisfactory. I proceeded to return the product in its original packing and within two days of purchase. However I was subjected to a very unpleasant experience with the customer service of the Macro at Abour Crossing. I just bought a laptop on 30/11/2021 and brought the laptop back to the store on 02/12/2021 for a refund and the employee there stated that they don't refund laptops at all. Kindly confirm if this is Makros return policy and how I should proceed further with my complaint.

4 November 2021: Placed an order online for an Elba gas stove. Delivery: estimate 21 days. Didn't think it would actually take 21days when most companies deliver in under 7 days. However I accepted the delivery period.

24 November 2021: I called Makro customer care to confirm delivery on the 25th, as there was no movement on the tracking. I was told someone would contact me within 24-48 hours. Received an email : Please note that your query has been escalated to the relevant department for further assistance, therefore will revert with feedback as soon as is provided.

26 November 2021: NO feedback, called customer care again. Then I'm told its 21 working days, but it will be escalated. Will take another 24-48 hours for a response.

29 November 2021: I send another email, no response. Calling the call centre is absolutely a waste of time.

30 November 2021: Receive another useless generic automated response :As per our telephone conversation, your query has been escalated to the relevant department for further assistance. I ask to be included in the correspondence to the relevant department, no response.

1 December 2021: I receive an email, my order is being packed. Will receive an sms with the courier is dispatched which means absolutely nothing. Tracking shows in progress, and I won't be suprised if there's no movement for another month. Request specific date of delivery.

2 December 2021: Receive another automated email. Still no movement on tracking.

30 November 2021:

I ordered a chest freezer for Makro online on the the 22nd of November 2021. Delivery said 3-7 days. It's been 8 WORKING days! When I track it online, it says packed since the day I ordered it. I called to complain and all I got was an SMS saying that due to large numbers of orders, processing was delayed. This is a load of garbage as the order was "packed" according to the tracking. They could've just owned up and admitted fault, instead of making excuses. Honesty would've been better!

Ordered liquor online from makro, item missing on delivery. Contacted customer care a week ago who said the matter was escalated, however, no response has been forthcoming. The order number is 3275081. Numerous emails have been sent to customer care as well as phone calls. To date no progress of what is being done to resolve this issue. The missing item from order needs to be refunded or delivered to me.

Good day all.

I have purchased a fridge from macro begining of this month.

The delivery took over 4 days to happen.

When i finally received the fridge it was broke.

We followed all protocols to ensure that there would be a replacement made and that we would receive a new fridge that is nog broken.

I have been waiting for longer than a week for them to come and get the broken fridge from my house and replace it with a working fridge.

I have lost over R1000 worth of groceries due to me not having a fridge to store my groceries in.

I was told multiple times that all is confirmed and they will deliver the next day, but it just does not happen.

I payed someone to be at my house during the day all week last week as i am working and my husband aswell. I wanted to ensure that someone was at my home to collect the fridge. I am down R900 because it cost me R180 a day.

Yesterday I wanted to take the fridge to makro and return it myself but i was told by the manager that I should not bother as they would deliver it today before 11am

It has not been delivered and i am not geting any response from makro.

They have provided me with contact details that does not exist.

I encourage you all not to support a company that does not take their klients serious.

I am down more money than i can afford and still dont have a fridge.

Hope you all will stand with me in not supporting a company that deliveres broken products and cant even have the decency to correct their mistake.

Thank you for taking your time in reading about my review.

Name: Selvan Govindasamy ID [protected]
Cell: [protected]

Complaint:

I logged a service call on 27th October for a Sinotec 55" Smart Tv at Makro, Cornubia, filled out the necessary forms, and was told I will be contacted for service technicians to make arrangements to check at my residence.

To date, after numerous calls as well as being told that techinicians will attend to on 10 November, this has still not been done.

Called again on 11th November, spoke to Priscilla and she advised that Sinotech wrote down my cell number incorrectly. Form also had an alternative landline number.

kind regards
Selvan Govindasamy
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Second complaint about Makro Centurion, the previous complaint they apologised with a R500 gift card, this time I just want my money back that they stole.

Purchased headphones here, 2 different sales people on 2 separate days regarding an aux cable, they assured me that the headphones had an aux cable. Upon opening the box at home, well, as the box stated, no damn aux cable. The Bluetooth was terrible too. I then returned the goods, & they absolutely refused to return the money back into my card. I am now left owing my company the cost of the headphones & no headphones. There is such miscommunication between staff & managers. I asked to speak to a manager (they told me they had requested a manager by the name of John to speak to me), waited forever, then finally went to look for John myself. When I found him he was on the phone with a supplier & shouting at them beyond belief, appalling how they treat their suppliers, perhaps I should treat them the same way. When I did get a chance to speak to him, he didn't have a clue of what I was talking about, turns out that the salesperson didn't even call him? What the FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF is going on in this store? Please guys, just give my money back already!

Makro Wonderboom.

I phoned, preordered and made an immediate eft payment in order to have my order ready for me early the next day and when I got there nothing was done. The accounts lady was EXTREAMLY rude! The sales person had no idea what to do and management was un helpful.

After I asked them to hurry up they made a point of it to be slower.

Accounts lady: Maria
Sales person: Memory

WORST EXPERIANCE EVER!

Placed order that was not delivered & requested refund. Received the refund tax invoice on 4 October 2021 - still haven't been paid. Was told the refund takes 2 - 6 working days. Been following up & keep onbeing told my call has been escalated but no luck. Called them and was told the manager, Busisiwe Radebe would contact me. Still no phone call.

I ordered a product online and paid for it with my credit card. Transaction done and stated so on Makro site. Delivery promised 2-5 working days. Current status on Makro Site still shows in progress with no updates as to being packages or send for delivery. Ons escalation Customer services indicated that courier has the package with a waybill number. Courier company acknowledges knowledge of number but that they have not taken delivery from Makro. 5 days later and I do not have my product and nobody seem to know or care where it is.
Online order # MAK3224268

I applied to sell on makro as i sell cds and have over 20 000 cds now shops no longer sell them they are very collectable and people now want them and as christmas is coming they will sell. I am a pensioner lady, no pension and i rely on selling cds for a living but i need a bigger marketplace such as makro. My dad passed away three years ago with alzheimers and as such i now have no family to fall back on financially. I was assuming that they guy who was handling my application was positive as he said he just wanted to check a few details then he comes back and turns me down. Can you please forward this to someone who can assist me please i am desperate please help

on the 27th of September 2021 I drove to Makro liquor Silverlakes after receiving a pamphlet about a special on wiendhoek draught which stated 24 draught cans priced at R259 and get another 6pack free...
after picking up a few 24packs I was told at the till point that the special is a mistake I asked for the manager his name Neil he was not even interested to hear my complain about sudden price change instead he referred me to call head office.. I even pointed out hat there were still pamphlets at the entrance regarding the special but my complain fell onto deaf ears I wish to take it up with Makro... I have pics on my phone as proof of the pamphlet special and dates
name: Kim Thantsha
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Good day
My Name is Getrude Koma
Makro Card No: [protected]
I purchased Gas stove on 09th August 2021, and also paid R950.00 for installation
The installers came to my house to make installation but they told me it would cost extra R4500 to to do installation, for which it is over 50% of the cost of the stove.
Firstly, this was not mentioned to me when I purchased the stove
Secondly, they did not ask me if I have existing line
I then told the I do not have R4500 since it was never mentioned to me. I went to the store were I went to the Makro store on 21 August to seek refund, they contacted service provider, the service provider said they cannot refund.
I wanted to return the stove they told me they will charge me 10% since the stove is opened. The manager called service provider, service provide said I must pay them R650 in order for me to get refund of R350. That did not make sense for. The manager told me he will escalate the matter and instructed Aaron.Mnyakeni (Sales manager) and Palesa Thulo (Sales Manager Germiston Store) to follow up.
I have been trying to get feedback from them since without any success.
I have sent them several emails went to the store several times without any success.

Kind Regards
Richard
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I placed an online order on the 27th August and was advised that the delivery would take 2-5 days. It's been over a week and my order has not been delivered. This is unacceptable. My Dad, recepient of the order, has been greatly inconvenienced by this as he's planned around the 2-5 delivery days. I called the Makro Call Centre, Saturday 4th September, and spoke to Gomolemo, reference number is 1814772. She said she'd speak to her Team Leader and that someone will contact me, no one got back to me.

I called the courier company, Time Freight/Dawn Wing, and spoke to Chris who said they'd only deliver on Monday or Tuesday. It seems Makro does not communicate the ETA of the order to the courier company. No one is taking responsibility for the delayed delivery. I gave my Dad's details as the contact person for the order yet the courier company still called me to confirm address, it seems Makro also failed to communicate this to the courier company?

I'm a regular customer at Makro and the service I've received is appalling.
My order status online says "order packed" and doesn't indicate that it's been collected yet by the courier company, Time Freight/Dawn Wing. The online tracking system is either inaccurate or the call centre is not being honest and shifting blame. Either way, the onus is on Makro to ensure that their suppliers deliver on time. This is poor customer service and just bad business.

I am a regular Customer of Makro SA. Today 02.09.2021 I went to Makro Liquor store Centurion, to buy me alcohol and the teller who assisted me was very rude, refuse to come and scan my products on the trolley and insisted that i must put them on the counter so that she can scan them, i refused and asked her to call the supervisor or give me the scanner so that i can scan myself. She refused to call the supervisor and ended up giving me the scanner to scan for myself(very disappointed you can check your cameras ) all the time when i go to Makro the tellers come and scan my staff on the trolley.

The details on my invoice is as follows:

Time: 15:54
Store No : M09
POS: 8
Invoice number : 332
Cashier No: 110

My Card Number: [protected]
Unique reference number: [protected]

Looking forward for response from Makro.

If you need additional info please let me know.

Regards;
A Muhanelwa
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