MultiChoice Africa / DSTV
Reviews and Complaints

I bought a dstv decoder on DSTV ONLINE with free installation. only to to be told by the installer that the voucher is invalid, we called dstv today and 4 hours later and 5 different consultants to no avail . i went to DSTV head office to try and resolve, the agent AND manager first told me i paid on a dummy site, it took me to log into their dstv site and show them my purchase that they now realised i was going no where until it was resolved. Phumla Dyabuza and Nanzi Sobekwa who had no intention of assisting advised that within 2 hours the voucher would be linked to my serial nr : iuc 8c [protected] , I AM STILL WAITING TO BE CALLED BACK and for voucher to be linked, what more must i do DSTV to be assisted?

Good day,

received an email 21/05/2022, my insurance policy, i did not take out insurance policy.

a dude called me and i told him no i don't want insurance, i told him yes i got the new decoder, and i am waiting for the debit order for that he told me he see on system it shows will go off on the 1st of June that was somewhere last week.

but now i get this mail, go listen to your voice call please correct this ASAP.

Kind Regards

Karin Hoyer

Good day

My decoder had a problem with the hard drive, so I went to the store to repair it, it was formatted and when I got home the decoder still had the same problem.

I then took it back to claim and exchange it, which they did, a week later the decoder started having the same issue as my old one.

How is possible that the decoder which I got from the store will have the same issues as my old decoder, now am pay for the subscription in order to have access to all the products that dstv are offering which at the moment am not able to get, and the decoder which is suppose to be repaired or refurbished and it's not working now.

Am very busy, and the up and down going to the store to exchange it, and I am paying the subscription and insurance hope I don't have to stress about the down time and having at the moment.

I have been trying to resolve my price lock premiums for the pass 15 months, I went to Ransburg walk-in center and for two weeks I have been calling multi choice call center reference numbers [protected]-i438, [protected]-i453 and today the 20th May 2022 I spoke to Michael Pitameer who also wanted to escalate this matter. Assist by providing a copy of the recording when I signed for price lock I also want to verify whether there is two extra views on this package or not.

My DSTV went down and I called out an installer at a cost of R850. (More than most call out fees). He informed me that the decoder had blown so I went into the Eden Terrace branch. Sat in the Q and they confirmed the decoder had blown so I bought a new decoder at a cost of R700 and went home and installed it and everything was perfect till I started to record my favorite programmes. The decoder would not record, playback or allow me to delete the 1 episode it had recorded. After phoning at least 5 times eventually I got someone to tell me the decoder's mother board was faulty and I must take it back. Another 1 or 2 hours in the Q. Nobody is yet offering to help solve the problem. We have a spare decoder at home in case the tenants in my cottage want to have DSTV. So I phone back to have the new decoder listed as the secondary decoder until I can get to DSTV. we connect it and I now have an error that says there is no communication but 5 minutes before al was working perfectly except for the recording. By now I have spent R70 on airtime. The solution from the call center agent is for me to call out an installer at anotherR850 to solve the problem. We have been DSTV subscribers for over 20 years, sometimes with 2 subscriptions because of our cottages

03/05 – Nompelo phone for price lock – will take 5-7 days to be stalled Ref [protected]-i463.

06/05 – Tolana phone for the same – still waiting for feedback - Ref [protected]-i475.11/05- I phone to find out – spoke to Alison will refer – Ref [protected]-i482.12/05- Theodora phone – will have in 5-7 days Ref [protected]-i484.18/05 – I phone again _  spoke to Hansom, refer me to primrose, according to her it was supposed to be installed, The13/05/2022 – Bloemfontein – I stay in Herzogville REF [protected]. Im very upset about the service,  promises and nobody is coming back to me with a solutions. Can I please have feedback regarding this, acc [protected]

On 20th October 2021 I requested the de activation of a decoder on my business account North Haven Country Estate Contract no #9381906 Customer no [protected]. I received confirmation from you on the 22 October 2021 Ref No [protected].

Since then you have not amended the debit order amount and after numerous E-Mail's and phoning your department I have not received a response from you and the amount of R1540 this month it is R1560 is still being deducted from my account.

At the moment I have only two decoders that are active being the following;

Decoder no SO10473515X0 Smartcard no [protected] and

Decoder no ZAAAACZ01815033 Smartcard no [protected].

Please respond to me by E-Mail [protected]@vodamail.co.za or [protected]@gmail.com

Around 4 April, I used dstv's self service to restart my subscription for my parent's decoder. What I noticed was that, there was no option for me to select the start date of the subscription. After speaking to my parents about when they wanted the subscription to start. On 7 April 2022, I called in and asked the consultant (Bongani Molayi) to only start my subscription in May. He told me that it was done.

On 2 May 2022, I used the self service to get my bill so that I could pay it but I noticed that my bill was too high. On 3 May 2022, I then phoned in and queried the bill (I did not record the name of the consultant). To my surprise, I was told that I was owing for April. I explained that, on 7 April 2022 I had called in to have my subscription start in May. The person I spoke to sent my query to a different department. On 4 May 2022 I phoned in again to check on the status of my query. This time I spoke to Wendy Njikazi. I was told it takes 24 hours to resolve queries. I told Wendy that it has been 24 hours since I lodged the query, and she said that I was not the only customer with a query. I noted that they record calls, so they should re-listen to the call and hear the conversation I had with Bongani. I also asked her what I would need to do, because I did not want the services cut off for non-payment. She checked how much I should pay, and she adviced me to pay an amount of R1208. and I did. But today (10 May 2022) the services were cutoff and I received an sms notifying me of the disconnection due to an outstanding amount. I called in to inquire why the service was cutoff yet I have an open query. I forgot the name of the consultant, but she said she would get her supervisor on the phone, I even explained to the consultant that I have been calling and no one is resolving this issue, no one is calling me back, yet it's costing me money to call them to resolve a query that is their fault. I was put on hold until I ran out of airtime. No one has called me back regarding my query.

I have had to pay the arrears just to get the services connected again

In that regard, I would like to complain that DSTV have no fair consumer practice. Their self service in not consumer friendly, yet they recommend customers to use that service. The consultants advice you what to do, but services still get cut off

My name is Mmabangwe Mojapelo Id number [protected], contact number [protected]. My account got suspended on Saturday (07 may 2022).I called the call center for assistance, I was told that there was subscription done on my account on the 28th February 2022 which system error. The lady who was assisting me told me that my account will be reconnected within few hours and she will make requests for it to be done immediately as the fault was on their side.

I waited until the following day and my account was not activated. I called on Sunday and explained my story again, the lady who was assisting me confirmed what I was told on Saturday and I was informed again that my account will be reactivated.

It wasn't, I called again yesterday (09 may 2022) the lady who assisted me (who I'm not happy with her service) told me that I owe 179 because I have subscribed to certain things that I'm not aware of. And even I told her that I didn't she was so adamant that I was the one who subscribed to such. I requested her to call the manager. The manager requested me to send a proof of payment payment, I did and requested to call me back after that. I waited for the manager's call however the lady who was speaking to me previously called back. We still did not agree and I requested her to call the manager again. She informed me that the manager was in the meeting and will call me back after 30 minutes. I am still waiting for that call.

What I fail to understand is I pay my dstv on time (25th) of each month and I am told that the reason for disconnection is because I pay early and not on the 2nd. My family has 4 days without TV because of something that was done erroneously on your side.

DSTV has cut my service now for the 10th time with an error 102-29 and package. I was assured that this won’t happen again

1. Paid the 18th March – sent proof of payment Wednesday, 23 March 2022 08:48 - Ref : [protected]

2. sent proof of payment - Sunday, 27 March 2022 09:32 - Ref : [protected]

3. sent proof of payment - Monday, 11 April 2022 07:58 – Ref : [protected]

4. sent proof of payment - Monday, 11 April 2022 18:08 – Ref: [protected]

5) sent proof of payment - Saturday, 16 April 2022 08:09– Ref: [protected]

6) Paid on the 19th March 2022

7) 22.04.2022 – Received an SMS – stating payment not received

8) sent proof of payment - Friday, 22 April 2022 15:15 – reference number is [protected]

9) sent proof of payment - Friday, 08th May 2022

Bright confirmed that his finance department does not work on a Sunday, we will wait

22 Feb-received sms about 3mnth offer, i took the offer &pd accordingly. My account pmnt date is 3rd. Apr,7th my services were suspended. Phoned-in explained i took an offer,services were reconnected. 22nd account was blocked again. Phoned-in, i was told i must email the offer. Emailed&received response-offer no longer available without explanation

I pay my dstv account via debit order, I used to pay t by cash bt due to the office nearby always off line, n also double paying the account cash and dstv deducting same month. Yesterday my system s blocked, the message sent s non payment n m being fined. Dstv s deducting every month why not now when there's money in my acc.? All these months they were deducting, why not now.? Am I suppose to pay the fine for something I did not do?

I have recently discovered that DSTV charges what they call an "overdue" balance.

They explain it in this way: if your 30-day agreement cycle is for the 3rd of each month, and you do not honour the payment on that day, they will typically grant you a "grace" (unstipulated number of days) where your service is not cut.

If, for whatever reason, you do not continue to pay, they will cut the service and you will be charged for those days that are in excess. It somewhat sounds like pro-rata, except it's back-dated.

My issue is where I am expected to pay "overdue" balance on a pre-paid service. I made an example with the telecom companies and how they sell internet data for a fixed number of days and that at midnight of that expiry day they cut the access immediately.

Surely it cannot be the responsibility of the customer to make sure that the service is cut. If phone companies are able to use a system that cuts services on time, I do not see why DSTV cannot do the same.

In addition to that, I would like to know on the legality of charging overdue balances on pre-paid services.

I am going to be lodging a complaint with the consumer complaints commission regarding the constant repeats on DSTV while charging me almost R1000 per month - in addition the having to 'pay' for the constant barrage of advertising. This is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. I am tired of being ripped off.

If you took all the repeat programmes off the system - you would be left with not even enough to fill 5 channels. It is an outrage.

I am Pieter Saunders. My new Explora ultra was sceduled to be installed yesterday, 25/4/2022. Ref no; 6KRKEU.

The installer; Corlia's informed me that they have received the Decoder no; A305138797 which was invoiced and delivered to them for me.

Apparently this decoder is not allocated to me but to a certain Franklin Davids and cannot be installed for me.

The installers supervisor Justin Lindley also refuse to talk to me.

HOW CAN A MAJOR COMPANY SUCH AS MULTICHOICE SERVICE THEIR LOYAL SUBSCRIBERS WITH SUCH POOR SERVICE.

SURELY THIS DECODER WAS INVOICED TO ME AND DELIVERED TO THE INSTALLER TO BE INSTALLED FOR ME. HOW CAN IT BE ALLOCATED TO A MR FRANKLIN DAVIDS?

THIS IS BASIC GRADE 7 ADMIN ERRORS. WHAT GRADE OF EMPLOYEES DOES MULTICHOICE EMPLOY?

I HONESTLY NEED THIS TO BE SORTED OUT IMMEDIATELY!

THIS IS PATHETIC SERVICE.

I AM STRUGELING WITH MULTICHOICE SINCE 28/3/2022 AND KEPT ON BEING DISAPOINTED BY THE POOR SERVICE AND KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR EMPLOYEES.

GREETINGS

Pieter Saunders.

I paid for dstv streaming premium via card on the 13th april. I still have no service. All I receive from any platform from Dstv is reference numbers. This is paramount to theft.

Pathetic...

I changed my back account details in March 2022 Dstv loaded my details on another customers account and have been deducting premiums from my account for another customer, I called to report this fraud and was told they will have to contact the other customer first to change his bank details that is the only way to remove my account from his profile, still not don’t and my account was debited again for R 2033 and dstv still not helping and this is fraud u used my bank account on someone else’s profile, so much for Checking the account details and security checks when changes details. I’m at a point of cancelling Dstv so scary how they can do this and be so calm when told about it like it’s legal

On 01 April 2022 One of your DSTV Installers TTS LNK Services Mugan came out to 10 Jenny Street in Brackenhurst Alberton. He installed Dstv for Miss M Reynolds account [protected]. Since then she has had problems with signal Error code E48-22.

Miss M Reynolds contacted the person who installed the DSTV on the number [protected] which he provided.

He is refusing to come and sort out his mess without charging another R450.00.

I feel that this is really a disgrace as she paid R2800.00 to have it installed.

I bought my new decoder and brought it home, when I started to activate an account with multichoice/DStv I found out that someone with different names has used the same id as mine and I was told that I can't activate mine because someone has opened an account using the same id number as mine.

They told me to go to their agency to resolve.y issue.

I went to their agency and was asked to give them an affidavit from police and my certified id.

I was told that they will call me for an update, I waited until 3 days but nothing happened.

I called customer service and I was told to call the fraud department but their line made me to wait for an without taking my call.

Now I got stucked with the new decoder which I can't activate an account with it.

Help me guys, I called their customer desk many without help.

A full month is gone now waiting for them to resolve the issue.

My name is Hp Sikhosana I'd [protected]. I applied for DStv internet on the 25th of March same day these amounts we're debited on my account R189.99 and R73.84 we're debited on my account waited for the rooter did not come I was due to pay my DStv account on the 16th of April and realise that my balance has escalated to R839.00 phoned DStv and told me about the internet. I told them that I received nothing and request to cancel it but that was not done on the 20th those amouth we're debited on my bank account R104.73 and R74.76