Dodgy Mel's Motors goes bankrupt
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SHUT DOWN: Mel’s Motors in Goodwood SHUT DOWN: Mel’s Motors in Goodwood
A notorious car dealership in Voortrekker Road that has allegedly been
ripping mense off for years has been liquidated.
A Mitchells Plain woman says this is her worst nightmare as Mel’s Motors still owes her R50 000.
Rabia Daniels, 52, from Eastridge says she approached the dealership in August last year to help her son purchase a Toyota RunX, and paid a deposit, but is yet to receive the car.
“I paid R50K deposit for the RunX but we never got the car.
“I then tried to cancel and the owner, Melanie Koen, was never there. Since I paid, she has just been missing.
“I was then told to fill in a cancellation form and it would take 14 days for the refund but nothing happened,” Rabia says angrily.
Rabia says she went to Mel’s Motors herself to demand her money back but got the skrik of her life when she got to the Goodwood dealership.
“There was a group of people also demanding their money back. Some had received cars which immediately broke and others, like me, received nothing at all.
“I just want my money back but it doesn’t seem as though this is going to happen.”
Rabia says she received a letter stating Mel’s Motors was being liquidated.
“I received a letter from the liquidators, Bedford Trust in Cape Town, stating that I need to be at Goodwood court on 22 January.
“I got to court and we were 15 people waiting for the same case.
FRUSTRATED: Unhappy customers at Goodwood court
“The detective said he still has 39 more people’s affidavits which he has to take down.
“This just makes me even more angry as there are just more people popping out.
“At court we were told Mel’s Motors is insolvent and they don’t have the funds to pay us back,” Rabia says angrily.
In documentation from Bedford Trust, the company confirms Mel’s Motors “was liquidated by special resolution on 10 December 2019”.
Signed by A Van Heerden, the letter states: “There are NIL assets in the estate, and in the circumstances this matter will prove to be a contribution account, and Creditors will need to make provision to write off their claims as irrecoverable.”
The next court date for complainants is on 22 February.
NOTIFICATION: Liquidation letter
Mel’s Motors has made headlines in the Daily Voice for all the wrong reasons over the years.
In June 2019, a Delft man said he paid Mel’s Motors R22 000 deposit for a car, but after cancelling the deal, had to wait for months to be reimbursed.
In September, a Capricorn woman demanded back her R25 000 deposit from Mel’s Motors after she never received the car.
In February 2018, Mel’s Motors refused to refund a Blue Downs couple who bought a dud car for R130 000.
The couple spent an extra R10 000 to fix the red VW Golf GTi 2007 model which they said was “falling apart”.