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Overcharged by a Car Mechanic
Consumer Affairs Adviser (speaking English) and 客户 (speaking Burmese) talk through “Overcharged by a Car Mechanic”. You interpret both ways — English into Burmese, and Burmese into English — one segment at a time, exactly as in the CCL test.
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Full transcript
Can you walk me through exactly what happened when you picked up your car from the mechanic in Wollongong last Thursday afternoon?
ဟုတ်ကဲ့၊ ကြာသပတေးနေ့ မွန်းလွဲပိုင်းမှာ ကားကို သွားယူတုန်းက ကုန်ကျစရိတ်က အရင်ပေးထားတဲ့ ခန့်မှန်းစျေးနှုန်းထက် ပိုများနေတာ တွေ့ရပါတယ်။ ဘာမှ ကြိုမပြောဘဲ ဒီလိုတောင်းယူလိုက်တာပါ။
Do you still have the original quote they gave you, plus the final invoice showing the higher amount you were charged?
ဟုတ်ကဲ့၊ ကျွန်တော့်မှာ အရင်ပေးထားတဲ့ ခန့်မှန်းစျေးနှုန်းစာရွက်နဲ့ နောက်ဆုံးပေးရတဲ့ ငွေတောင်းခံလွှာ နှစ်ခုစလုံး ရှိပါတယ်။
Good, please keep both documents safe. First, send the business a written request asking them to refund the extra one hundred and eighty dollars they overcharged you.
အကယ်၍ သူတို့က ငြင်းဆန်ရင် ဒါမှမဟုတ် လုံးဝ ပြန်စကားမပြောရင် ကျွန်တော် ဘာလုပ်ရမလဲ။
If the business refuses to refund you, or simply doesn't respond to your written request within a reasonable time, you're able to lodge an application with NCAT.
NCAT ကို လျှောက်ထားရင် အဖြေရဖို့ ဘယ်လောက်ကြာမလဲ။
NCAT doesn't promise a set timeframe for every case — how quickly it's resolved depends on the complexity of the dispute and their current caseload.
လျှောက်ထားဖို့ ကုန်ကျစရိတ် ဘယ်လောက်ရှိပါသလဲ။ ကျွန်တော် အခုလက်ရှိ အလုပ်လက်မဲ့ ထောက်ပံ့ကြေးရနေပါတယ်။
There's also a modest application fee, though you may qualify for a reduced fee if you're currently receiving certain government benefits or concessions.
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်၊ ကျွန်တော် အရင်ဆုံး စာနဲ့ တောင်းဆိုကြည့်ပြီးမှ လိုအပ်ရင် NCAT ဆီ လျှောက်ထားပါ့မယ်။
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