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- 0:00Speaker 1: Stop, stop what you're doing.
- 0:01Speaker 2: Here is another world famous crank car from Darren Wackhead,
- 0:07Speaker 2: something that's exclusive to KFM mornings.
- 0:11Speaker 1: So one very good organization in South Africa is the
- 0:17Speaker 1: Consumer Protection Line. Right. So you go, you go buy
- 0:22Speaker 1: a TV and you open the box. The TV is broken.
- 0:28Speaker 1: You go back to the place and they say, hey, ah,
- 0:31Speaker 1: this TV's bust and they say, nah, well we're gonna
- 0:35Speaker 1: have to send it in. It's going to take fourteen days.
- 0:39Speaker 1: You go, no, no, no, not happening. I bought a
- 0:42Speaker 1: brand new TV. Chuck this one in the back and
- 0:44Speaker 1: give me a brand new one. So some places they'll
- 0:47Speaker 1: do that. Some places they'll play hardball with you. Now
- 0:50Speaker 1: you drop the TV. You know all these sorts of things,
- 0:53Speaker 1: and that is why this exists, all right, And it's
- 0:56Speaker 1: not just all that, it's any consumer good.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Hm.
- 1:01Speaker 1: So there's a hotline, and I wanted to put this
- 1:03Speaker 1: to the test. We have rights as consumers absolutely. So
- 1:10Speaker 1: you hear the number being thrown out. Have you ever
- 1:13Speaker 1: called it? I've never.
- 1:16Speaker 2: I have better need to be honest, but I'd like
- 1:20Speaker 2: to see what happens when you do.
- 1:22Speaker 1: How effective are they? Well, let's find out.
- 1:30Speaker 2: Probent a government off the Western Cape assist.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Is this the South African Consumer Services?
- 1:36Speaker 2: This is the office of a consumer protector in the
- 1:40Speaker 2: Western Cape.
- 1:41Speaker 1: So if I've got a complaint about some thing that
- 1:45Speaker 1: I've bought, I'll call you right.
- 1:48Speaker 2: Yes, tell me. What is your first name? Please?
- 1:51Speaker 1: It's Beryl for Sakhi holding the line. Yes, Carla in Fitch.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Okay. I need to ask you a few questions, just
- 2:02Speaker 2: to establish a few things. Do you stay in the Western.
- 2:05Speaker 1: Cape, I say in Paro? Yes?
- 2:07Speaker 2: Okay. John is telling me that you say you don't
- 2:09Speaker 2: have any contact numbers or anything. How do I contact
- 2:13Speaker 2: you per telephone? What's your numbers in Cape Town?
- 2:15Speaker 1: Well, I can give you the number for the Bingo
- 2:18Speaker 1: Club where I'm every Tuesday and Thursday.
- 2:20Speaker 2: I don't want to business. I need a number where
- 2:22Speaker 2: I can contact you a phone, cell phone or an
- 2:25Speaker 2: o own telephone number.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Can I give you my neighbor Dorothy?
- 2:30Speaker 2: Okay? But so what if she's not there? So what
- 2:33Speaker 2: is the telephone number?
- 2:34Speaker 1: It's two one, four, six five, No two eights.
- 2:39Speaker 2: But you told me, you say in Paro, this is
- 2:41Speaker 2: a Cape Town number.
- 2:42Speaker 1: The last time I checked Paro was Cape Town. So okay,
- 2:46Speaker 1: I bought this jacket three months ago from it was from,
- 2:52Speaker 1: and I want to go and return it. I want
- 2:54Speaker 1: a full refund because you know, they didn't tell me
- 2:57Speaker 1: that it was going to go out of fashion so quickly.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Okay, So unfortunately, even under the Consumer Act law, because
- 3:04Speaker 2: it's going out of fashion doesn't give you the right
- 3:06Speaker 2: to go and demand a refund. You must have a
- 3:09Speaker 2: reasonable proper reason. There must be a defect from this
- 3:14Speaker 2: from the.
- 3:15Speaker 1: The defect is bloody ugly.
- 3:17Speaker 2: Oh well, that's for your choice to purchase in the
- 3:19Speaker 2: first place.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Yeah, but silver with tessels was in two months ago.
- 3:25Speaker 2: So the fashion goes out of fashion in with less
- 3:27Speaker 2: than three weeks.
- 3:28Speaker 1: You know what the shop says and didn't inform me beforehand.
- 3:31Speaker 1: You know what, mister Vasaki, this garment will expire on
- 3:34Speaker 1: the streets of Cape Town in no less than three months.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Which store did you buy this jacket?
- 3:40Speaker 1: It's that one day by the shop rights.
- 3:43Speaker 2: What with JR by shop? Right?
- 3:47Speaker 1: So now I bought the speeder al right, I bought
- 3:50Speaker 1: it for summer.
- 3:52Speaker 2: Let me hear, what's the wrong with your theater?
- 3:55Speaker 1: I bought it in December, So I want to take
- 3:59Speaker 1: it back, and I want. I wanted it to buy
- 4:01Speaker 1: like a jeans or something.
- 4:05Speaker 2: It must be a valid reason.
- 4:07Speaker 1: Okay, you're speaking to work.
- 4:11Speaker 2: I don't believe that.
- 4:24Speaker 1: There are awesome and very efficient and they're there to
- 4:27Speaker 1: help you. Good to know that's work it. I didn't
- 4:33Speaker 1: realize when I was giving out the Cape Town clade,
- 4:35Speaker 1: I said to one instead of I want to Yeah,
- 4:40Speaker 1: but you know what I'm saying, I'll switched there. All right.
- 4:46Speaker 1: It's there for you, not for me to miss around.
- 4:48Speaker 1: But it works number sureing.
- 4:49Speaker 2: If people that lady was so serious doing her job, yes, no, absolutely,
- 4:57Speaker 2: fact less.
- 4:57Speaker 1: Than please you are out of line. Okay. So while
- 5:02Speaker 1: they were in Parliament and they're busy doing this social
- 5:06Speaker 1: media band for the for the kiddies, we should be
- 5:10Speaker 1: able to take back clothing that goes out of fashion,
- 5:13Speaker 1: especially if it goes out of fashion within a year.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Who would have thought a silver jacket with tests line
- 5:23Speaker 1: dancing there at the Bengal clothes. What are you talking
- 5:25Speaker 1: about in parow? It's going off, it's going off. You
- 5:30Speaker 1: know what fashion is coming back? No, my son went shopping,
- 5:38Speaker 1: my thirteen year old uh tupec vibe not the tupeck.
- 5:45Speaker 1: Do you remember we used to wear, like a white
- 5:47Speaker 1: long sleeved t shirt. Yeah, and then the shirt and
- 5:52Speaker 1: then a shirt collared shirt over baby baby ninety yeah,
- 5:58Speaker 1: left nineties, it's back, sure, like the checkered shirt playing shirt. Yeah. Yeah.
- 6:06Speaker 1: It was like the Latino vibe. Yeah go look at
- 6:09Speaker 1: Tupac the way he used to dress. That's the new
- 6:13Speaker 1: teen vibe. Two pack of cigarettes? What are we talking about?
- 6:19Speaker 1: Two packers back, Johannesburg, So what is it?
- 6:28Speaker 2: What?
- 6:29Speaker 1: Two pack? How many Marl Broers Tupac Buddy two pack