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Groundswell of support for disgruntled vehicle owners


A Facebook page for disgruntled vehicle owners, who have not been paid for displaying advertising stickers on their cars, has generated more than 1,200 members.

Liezl Barclay, who started the group in January, says she initially experienced problems with the "new car for R699" scheme last year, when she was not paid for the kilometres she drove.

The agreement, with Hong Kong based company Blue Lakes and the local Satinsky Group, subsidises car owners for the distances they travel with these stickers on their cars.

Barclay now has to pay her car's full installment of R2,500, while she previously paid just under R1,000 with the advertising fees received.

Over 17,000 of these vehicle owners learnt last week that the deal had been cancelled.

Members of Barclay's Facebook group are now considering legal action against the companies involved.

"We now just started the facebook group, they phoned me and said they are not willing to negotiate back payment for the month they were suppose to pay me and they didn't pay me or the re-instatement of my contract if I do not close the facebook page. So I said then leave it then I'm taking my stickers off I'm not going to close the facebook page.I wanted people to know about these people, I wanted people to be warned." says Barclay.