{"id":1215,"date":"2018-02-14T16:53:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T14:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2018-03-06T20:28:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T18:28:44","slug":"never-clientele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/archives\/1215","title":{"rendered":"Never clientele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit angry.\u00a0 For weeks I have been receiving multiple calls from a robodialler trying to sell me clientele insurance. It starts with a call from +27876546440 playing some recording (but this number changes). I have no idea what that recording says. I press 1 to make it stop. Then later a real person phones me from 0110850720 to speak to me about their products, and acts all surprised that I want them to stop phoning me. They seem to think that because they tricked me with their robot dialing machine that I have an agreement with them. This is completely corrupt &#8211; you can&#8217;t have a meeting of minds with a robot, because it hasn&#8217;t got a mind.<\/p>\n<p>If you repeatedly phone people with a robo dialler, there is only one reason for this: you want <strong>money<\/strong>. You care deeply about getting <strong>money<\/strong>, and about getting it soon, but you don&#8217;t care about the people that are not your clients and do not want to be your clients. You hate them, and you&#8217;d rather not deal with them, because they are only worthy of talking to a machine.\u00a0 It&#8217;s fine to waste their time over and over and over, just in case they want to give you the <strong>money<\/strong> that you so love.<\/p>\n<p>I will\u00a0<strong>never<\/strong> buy anything from Clientele insurance. A company capable of wasting the time of the entire country with robotic callers can be expected to &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sell you <strong>worthless<\/strong> products at high prices<\/li>\n<li>deny valid claims for bogus reasons<\/li>\n<li>debit your account without authority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about the last two, but an example that looks to me like a completely worthless product at a high price is their &#8220;<strong>Hospital* Plan<\/strong>&#8221; at R265 per month.\u00a0 It sounds great, except if you end up in hospital, and then you will discover that the <strong>asterisk*<\/strong> says that it covers <strong>non-medical<\/strong> expenses (e.g. your car was towed?) provided that you were in hospital for THREE days or more.\u00a0 No, it doesn&#8217;t cover what you might think a hospital plan covers.\u00a0 Not a single thing.\u00a0 And if you&#8217;ve been in hospital for THREE days, you have bigger financial problems than the taxi fare to get there.\u00a0 Simply put, they collect a lot of money, and they pay out precious little.<\/p>\n<p>Since they so hate people that are not their client\u00e8le, how are we supposed to believe that they love their client\u00e8le?<\/p>\n<p>These people are no better than the R3\/day worthless subscription &#8220;services&#8221; that are now also using robodiallers to trick people into being &#8220;subscribed&#8221; and then tricking them into sending premium SMS&#8217;s to &#8220;unsubscribe&#8221;.\u00a0 And that is also called a &#8220;service&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit angry.\u00a0 For weeks I have been receiving multiple calls from a robodialler trying to sell me clientele insurance. It starts with a call from +27876546440 playing some recording (but this number changes). 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