Makro Online
Reviews and Complaints

Placed an order 23 November 2022 online with Makro and the other item was not available and was advised it will be refunded. I have sent emails and called and all the time I'm told it had been escalated to the Finance Dept.Now a month later and more more than allowing 10 days of their refund policy still no refund has been received in my bank account.Feedback is the same, escalated and I must wait , such an inconvenience and inconsiderate business practice for me as a customer.

My name is Andrew Lithako order MAK4131601 dispatched

On the website the delivery indicates that I will receive my order within 2-5 workings days however I waited for almost 2 weeks. This inconvenienced me as I was going to a function and really need to receive my order in time.

The what's chat was not helpful as ot was automated and also spoke to an advisor on line who could not give me sounds reasons why is my order taking forever.

This is the worst customer service I have ever experience and I will ensure that friends and family's is aware about your bad online service.

MAK4126811 - I placed my order on 11 December 2022 and delivery stated 2-5 working days. On working day 6 I called Makro regarding the delivery of the 7 piece dining room table, the consultant advised that Makro would escalate the matter with the Courier service, and I didn't receive any feedback. On working day 9 (22 December 2022), the day before we had tenants moving into the property, I called DPD Laser courier service multiple times, they keep you on hold for 20 mins and then the line goes dead. After that I called Makro again and again I got told that the consultant would escalate the case and someone would contact me, and I am still waiting. After attempting all the calls, I sent an email to the couriers and 2 hours later I got a reply email stating that the product had been declared damaged and Makro had been notified and someone from Makro would call me regarding a replacement. 

I called Makro and the consultant said that the system is still showing as "handed over to couriers" and she would escalate it to the courier service. 

I am still waiting for any communication from Makro or the Courier service.

Highly disappointed in the service I have received.

Placed online order on 25th Nov 22 for a bicycle for my sons birthday and not delivered MAK4069278 for collection at cornubia store. They called me a week later to say there's no stock at the store, but they have sourced it from another store and will deliver to me. Tried calling numerous times and spoke to agents twice but still no delivery and they don't call back to update me as promised.

It's my son's birthday on boxing day and we are going away for Christmas and I find myself at the mercy of makro having to try to call everyday holding on the line hoping for an agent to pick up my call to get an update.

That's quite pathetic and not the type of stress I need while planning for a holiday, especially considering that I planned well and purchased the gift a month in advance.

So someone please help me get the bicycle or give me my money back so I can buy the bicycle somewhere else.

I am very disappointed with Makro after being a customer of them for years.

I ordered a stove on the 24 November! It arrived with the glass smashed out.

I sent it back and was told I would get a refund.

It is now nearly Christmas and I don't have a stove. I have been without one for almost a month and Makro just doesn't care.

When I placed the order, the money was transferred immediately. Now that I have to get a refund, you are dragging your feet and delaying.

Issue my refund to my RCS card before I take this further!

I am waiting for a reply! I haven’t even received any communication That my email was acknowledged and I will be receiving my refund or when?!

This has been a battle for 18 days for me and the nonchalantness is extremely unprofessional!

The sale was made in the 2nd of December, under false pretense that you had stock on the App Store! There was no stock and just to keep the sale it went through. (Which I found out later after the many calls made)

I then received a sms that the package was handed over to the courier company, I waited another 7 days and still no package delivered. I had to get someone to call and trace where my tv actually was. After many calls she got the number of the courier service and after waiting on that call for over 20mins did she speak to Matthew, who assured her that the tv is with him and will be delivered tomorrow, which was Friday (16th December) the public holiday!

The 16th came and went! Another call had to be made the 17th and then spoke with Zanele who confirmed there was no stock and nothing had been handed to any courier company!

This makes no sense to me!

After a refund was requested all of a sudden I received this email saying that there is magically stock!

I have had to ask other people to call your customer care line which took many calls of holding for over 20 minutes at a time! I have all the call logs and proof!

there was another customer care consultant named Richard who also said that he would get their team leaders to check on this matter, but nobody did.

I then sent another person to another store yesterday, to buy the tv while this matter gets sorted out. (Carnival makro JHB) as this was suppose to be a surprise and a birthday gift.

(paid for 2 tvs only received on and no sign of a refund for the other!)

The tv doesn’t have an App Store nor does it allow you to download Disney+ (Hisense 55’), she is back at the store in jhb (Carnival makro) now,

(19th December 2022 at 09h30) wanting to CHANGE the tv and your staff is talking about another two week assessment! ABSOLUTELY INSANE! (Returns department) the sale was made for a higher price LG and while the paperwork was being done the price was changed on the floor! They expected her to pay that price. Luckily she took a pic of it for me with the price display before they decided to change it!

If I have to take this to social media I will as well as hello Peter and where ever else I can.

I am not even in SOUTH AFRICA and decided to buy a birthday gift for someone and this is the type of service provided by your company! This entire experience has been dreadful and the birthday surprise ruined thanks to your poor customer service!

I am appalled at the service from Makro SOUTH AFRICA! You guys will do anything for a sale

Good day, I would like to follow up on an online order that placed 23 November 2022. We have not received anything yet and it's nearly Christmas! The order was made through Cape gate but when we went there it was a whole blame game between them, Montagu gardens branch and Bloemfontein. We don't care where or what, we just want our order as we paid for it. Order number:MAK4042075. Really hope this can be resolved as everyone is just lieing to us and not taking responsibility for the mess up.

Placed an order with Makro Online, 8 Dec 2022. MAK4117362.

The delivery date was by 13 Dec 2022, order was for 2 x Campmaster Camping Chairs and LED Camping Light. Only two items arrived with 1 x Camping Chair missing.

I phoned the call center, just to hear it will be escalated to the team to investigate. I've told the lady I need the item since I made sure I order in time to have it for the weekend. She assured me that I will have feedback on the matter by end of business on 13 Dec 2022. Ref : 2837966.

Needless to say, never received any feedback on the 13th. Another thing that was shocking, I asked the lady to check how many items were on the waybill and she said only one. This is after I received two wrapped items.

This morning 14 Dec 2022 I phoned again to follow up, spend 20min on the phone, just to hear they were extremely busy and will escalate.

Then received a mail that they escalated the query.

The service is shocking, they just don't care to sort issues out.

And here I'm sitting without my items and the money that I paid for the items.

I ordered online on the 5th December with your promise of delivering within 3 to 5 days but up until today I'm still waiting for my order. I sent you email with no respond. Tried calling makro polokwane but it seems like their phone number is always having technical difficulties. I managed to get hold of them yesterday but they don't even know when will the courier collect the order for delivery how possible is that. It looks like no one knows when will my order been delivered. Your service is very bad, I even regret ordering from makro.

I placed an order for a new tumble dryer which was severely damaged when delivered. I requested a refund on 8 November, the machine was collected and i have still not received my refund. I have called numerous times, sent emails, begged and pleaded and the only response i have received is "the refund has been approved, apologies for the inconvenience.

This is unacceptable. I am devastated at the theft that has happened by Makro. I just want my money back.

Placed an online order on 24/11/22, and was advised that shipment delivery would be split.

Received first part of order on 25/11/2022. Was contacted on 29/11/2022 to say the courier had the second part of my delivery and would send me the details, days go by... but no sms with courier details was received. I send an email.

Still waiting for my delivery (08/12/2022) no response to my emails (second one sent) querying the delay.

Contact the call centre on 07/12/22 on hold for 13 minutes... am told it will be escalated and that someone will call me. Received an sms almost immediately after call centre call to say the courier has my parcel, which can hardly be true since I was just literally on the phone. I ask for someone from Springfield Makro (or Toti Makro - if thats where its coming from to call me regarding the shipment and the huge delay, agent indicates its coming from the Springfield store) - I'm still waiting for the call 24 hours later.

Needless to say, I wait for delivery details, none are received. No sms from courier and no sms from Makro with courier details, no message or email to confirm delivery like I received on the first half of my order... and surprise, surprise... STILL NO DELIVERY!

Regards

Bronwynn Botha

[protected]@gmail.com

The washing machine was delivered on the 1st of December I unboxed it immediately when I saw the dent I asked the delivery guys to take it back but they said they only do deliveries not collections I must log a query with Makro. I sent an email to Makro same day they replied and asked me to send pictures since them I have never heard from them. I tried calling the online query number [protected] there is no response. I have sent numerous emails asking them to attend to my query no one is replying my emails. I tried to log an exchange request on their website it says my order number does not exist.

The Caslte Lite beer is expired, and I did returned the stock to the Makro Alberton Branch, they confirmed that the manager will call me, which is happening. I tried call the store and customer complaint services and i am getting no response. All I request is money back which is R259.00.

The beers was purchased on the 24 November 2022. i need feedback asap.

Good day,
Please tell me where the hell is my order? I have placed the order 25/11/2022, its 11 days later and still not received my order. For the past 4/5 days the tracking showing its being packaged... how can it take so long? I'm very happy with this so called service I received, and I will definatly think twice before ordering from Makro again. I have sent how many emails and no response received. Order number: MAK4042932Please advise urgently? Thank you.

Marko is absolutely [censored]! I will never in my life order something from them again. I ordered two 8-in-1 Silver Crest 8L Air Fryer Digital LED Display Non-Stick fryers from them and I only received the one. I have been trying to sort this issue out for 10 days now. I am aware that this product is via third-party. When I firts followed up on this issue the consultant informed me that he wil escalate this and someone will be in contact. The next day I followed up again and found that the issue has never been reported and there was no proof that I contacted them the previous day. Again the consultant said that they will escalate this issue and someone will be in contact. After two days of not hearing from them I phoned again and again the same thing they will escalte the issue again. Saturday when I phoned them I spoke to one of the same consultants I have spoken to before and she informed that it is not Makro's problem seeing that the product is from a third party and that I must know I'm not the only complaining customer with this issue for this product. I phoned them twice today, where I was on the line for 10 minutes and there was no answer. How nice to know that Makro is in kahoots with fairprice in not only stealing people's money but also the products that they bought. I bought this product through Makro, I paid them the money, making them responsible to get me that product!

I bought a product during the black friday sale. Within 12 hours of purchasing, I cancelled the order. This was done telephonically as the system did not allow and product was out for delivery 4 days earlier than indicated. I was under the impression that customer care had cancelled the order, but later that day the product was delivered. The delivery guy said he had to leave the priduct with me and I must phone again for collection cause he could not take the product back with him Since then, I have made several calls to your department. Your customer service team is ineffective, incompetent and frustrating. Please look at reference number 2796120 and order number [protected]. I have made 5 calls to your department, but they still have not acted. I am extremely disappointed with the service. I am awaiting collection and refund for a product for more than 9 days now. Your processes are not understood by staff and I am heavily inconvenienced - storage of this product and not being refunded due to no one coming to collect it. I was told it was a misunderstanding and it was escalated. I spoke to Lerato Sideya, Wezi Phiri and Talita - whom have all given different versions of stories and what is captured and understood on the system as well as false assurances. My concern is that we are reaching the 14 day limit and it is no fault of mine that makro has not fetched this product,. This is really unacceptable service and incompetence at its best. Kindly resolve and call me for more info on [protected].

I, Corien Stapelberg, placed 2 orders for collection at store.

MAK4067011, the order was for the Black Friday special for 4X packets of toilet paper. I received sms to collect on Sunday but only went on Tuesday. I waited more than a hour for somebody to help me. They couldn't find my order, eventually they gave me the toilet paper.

I received my 2nd sms on Thursday and this time I went immediately as I had other commitments. After more than 2hours (spoken to manager at store and spoke to consultant on the app number) nobody could help me with 3 items (MAR4079065). Then I get asked if I can wait a bit longer as they can't find my items.

I left the store at Carnival., I contact client service to cancel my order and reimburse my money immediately. NO THEY CANNOT AS THERE IS A PROCESS. So I asked what about the terrible noncompliance service you gave your clients. The lady said she can only refer it and I must wait 7 days for my money. When I asked if I can speak to a manager, she told me she work from home and dont have a manager. Up till now I didn't received a reference number by phone, mail or sms. There is nothing I can do according to customer services as my query is in her hands. So will a manager or anybody be notified, I dont know. How can a company as big as Macro have such so unmanageable structure that an employee can tell you 'stuff you and there is nothing you can do about it".

Failure to respond to emails, messages and phone calls.

Trying to track my online orders 4 days after the purchase on Monday 28 December.

Online order #MAK4086489

Online order #MAK4085540

lynnette.[protected]@yahoo.com

[protected]

Wumdrop is their designated courier service who is useless and you should not be working with them. They are near impossible to contact, do not pick up their phones (specifically national operations manager Kim Nicholson), absolutely disgusting customer service. The delivery address is less than 10min away from the Makro they keep saying they'll pick up from.

In the interim of them being a useless delivery company with poor contact with customers, Makro appears to have misplaced my order which now also makes Makro useless. I ordered last week and I was promised delivery last week and it's been nothing but issues. I got an email that says my order was packed by Makro on the 24th, and now Wumdrop says that the Makro cannot locate it. Disgusting!

MAK4045772

On the 24th of November 2022 I bought appliances from Makro online worth R22 000. The next day I received an email saying that my order was packed and collected by the courier and will be delivered on the 29th of November. My appliances were never delivered. On the 30th I called the courier company but they had no recollection of what I was talking about and was told to contact Makro. I called Makro and I was told there was an incorrect waybill produced but my items were with the courier and that they would escalate the matter and that I would receive the correct way by the end of the day. I never received that email. Today(01 December) I called again but now it seems my appliances are still at the Makro distribution center waiting for the courier to collect. This feels like it's a scam from Makro, how can I be told 2 different stories. Can I either have my appliances delivered or my money back.