[obsnw] Re: Filing police report against Observatory armed response

2009-11-03 Thread Trevor Hughes
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Daniel wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > OAR have kept on debiting my account, and since they have been very > friendly all the time I thought they would pay me back my money. 5 > months have passed now and they owe me a nice little amount of money. > An SA friend of min

[obsnw] Re: Filing police report against Observatory armed response

2009-11-06 Thread Evelyn
I have been having a similar problem with OAR. I sent notice of cancellation in August, they have continued to debit my bank account in Sept, Oct and Nov, plus they have now billed me for a full year's subscription because they say that the contract states that one can only cancel 2 months prior t

[obsnw] Re: Filing police report against Observatory armed response

2009-11-06 Thread Trevor Hughes
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Evelyn wrote: > > I have been having a similar problem with OAR. I sent notice of > cancellation in August, they have continued to debit my bank account > in Sept, Oct and Nov, plus they have now billed me for a full year's > subscription because they say that the

[obsnw] Re: Filing police report against Observatory armed response

2009-11-06 Thread Justin Ashley
[mailto:ob...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Trevor Hughes Sent: 06 November 2009 10:41 AM To: obsnw@googlegroups.com Subject: [obsnw] Re: Filing police report against Observatory armed response On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Evelyn wrote: > > I have been having a similar problem with

[obsnw] Re: Filing police report against Observatory armed response

2009-11-07 Thread Biddy Greene
I have a feeling that the banks have (or at any rate *had*) a very crazy rule that one couldn't stop one's own debit orders oneself - the bank had also to get authorisation from the payee. Since we discovered that we stopped having any debit orders. Biddy. On Nov 6, 3:48 pm, Johann du Plooy wro

[obsnw] Re: Filing police report against Observatory armed response

2009-11-08 Thread Toby Hewlett
Howdy, I am not sure if speaking to your bank is going to help much because of the way the push debit payment system works in SA. Essentially, when you sign a debit mandate against you account (or they even record you telephonically stating that they can collect payment from your account ) you

[obsnw] Re: Filing police report against Observatory armed response

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel
Hi everyone! Thanks for all the advice and comments. I think I will try to contact the Woodstock police station over the phone and see if they can help me filing a charge. The debit order was stopped by my bank (Capitec) in September. I am busy finding out from them whether they can reverse the