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British gas took more money than expected
I am on british gas for both electric and gas I pay gas through pre-payment meter and I pay my electric direct debit I have been paying £30.00 PER MONTH, I was checking my bank balance and saw they had taken £57.00 with out even notifying me can they do this.. Thanks
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Problem with gas bill
Hi all, I have a problem with my electricity bill. The bill is paid by direct debit to British Gas every month. The new bill from 24 Aug to 27 Nov has just arrived and on looking at the payments I noticed that only 1 payment, being the 1 for November has been taken out. I have rung British Gas and they tell me that the…
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British Gas ?? Dirty tricks campaign
I had a British Gas representative on my doorstep last night to say that he is calling at all the houses in my area following a complaint about previous British Gas customers being charged too much/twice. Aparrantely my supplier, Southern, pay British Gas from our bill and also within our bill we pay both Transco and…
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Can I keep switching gas and electricity
Last month I swapped from powergen to British gas via quidco and then powergen tempted me back this month with guarantee of being cheaper than British gas till 2009 and a payment of £25. In the last week I've seen that scottish power would be cheaper again for me by quite a bit. Problem is how often can i change suppliers…
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£150 charge to have meter changed
My son just bought his first property. The place has a prepayment meter. He doesnt want this in case it goes off when he's in mid download ;) so he called Scottish Power and they said it would be £150 to have the meter changed. I think this is rediculous... he's a new customer who wants to go on direct debit, a good catch…
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British Gas problems
Hi, can someone offer some advice please, We moved home on the 17th April 2006, we have had issues with British gas which were our suppliers for Gas and Electric as they claimed we didn't give them final meter readings. As a result we didn't receive final bills from them. After approx 6 months we received a letter from a…
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Energy companies 'exploit poor'
Energy companies have been accused by an industry watchdog of exploiting some of the poorest people in society. Customers with pre-payment meters are paying hundreds of pounds more for electricity and gas than those with access to the cheapest tariffs. According to Energywatch, some people cannot take advantage of lower…
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Gas - Southern Electric
My friend has just had gas installed and chose Southern Electric to provide the gas. There's a complex equation for working out the cost, ie converting the units to kilowatt hours. Is this a standard equation and what is the equation? Also, the meter that they have installed appears to be running backwards. This all sounds…
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All day, or on timer?
Hi fellow Moneysavers, Can anyone tell me whether it's better to leave your gas central heating on at a lower temperature during the whole day, or is it better to have it at a higher temperature, but on a timer (ie. only on at certain times, & for a certain number of hours a day)? So, it's scenario A : 7am to 10pm - on all…
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Npower Threats
i need some advice on a matter: i changed to Npower in the summer as they were cheaper than scottish power - i was paying £35 for gas and £40 for electric. my heating is gas. a few weeks ago i received a letter from Npower stating that due to the season my electric would go up to £58 a month from the next instalment -…
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Edf !!!! Up !!
CAN ANYONE HELP . lONG STORY BUT SHORT VERSION IS I MOVED IN A NEW HOME THAT HAD PRE PAYMENT METERS I WANTED THEM CHANGED TO EDF AND THROUGH DIRECT DEBIT . GAS WAS FINE BUT ELECTRIC STILL HAVE ME DOWN AS BEING PRE PAYMENT .. I HAVE NOT BEEN PRE PAYMENT SINCE FEBRUARY 07 ... I HAVE PHONED 3 TIMES EXPLAINING AND NO ONE GETS…
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Energy brokers
I have changed electricity suppliers so many times in the past few years... but every time I look round, someone is always able to come in cheaper. I'm bloody sick of it, to be honest! How are you supposed to know which supplier gives you the best deal? Anyway, for the first time I've actually just used an energy broker…
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Can I 'remote control' electric heating over the internet?
Hi All, I'm new here, but after searching a while, there dosn't seem to be any threads for this so here goes: I have a flat with no gas supply and I'm often away on business. I have storage heaters, but I'm not wanting to leave these on permanently due to the cost, but need a nice warm place to come home to. My idea is to…
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will prices rise in early 2008??????????????
gas or elecy thinking whether to go with the southern cap till dec08 cheers
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economy 7 heaters problem
hi there i have two of my economy 7 heaters on, there set to less than half charger ( 3.54 p night rate). yet i have had a look at my meter and it has taken over £1.20 off , does this seem correct , its seems very expensive to me. could there be a problem with the meter the economy 7 was only put in a couple of years back ,
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prepayment meter worries (British Gas)
Ok, it's a long story, but due to unemployment a couple of years ago combined with Child Tax credits etc being stopped due to overpayment (their fault not mine) all our debts basically built up and i'm still trying to get us straight. Our electricity bill at the end of last year was £1000 (since July 05), we're all…
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Atlantic Power and Gas - stay or leave?
I've been with them for just over a year and have been fairly happy with the service. On the other hand, I'm not sure whether I'm getting the best 'dual fuel' deal. They operate a 13th month loyalty payment - which seems good - but I'm not sure whether sites like uswitch take this into account when comparing like with…
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Gas Alliance
ive posted this in consumer vent but got no reply: can anyone give me any suggestions? The wall they have damaged is not connected to the work they have done, basically they have knocked it down using a digger. they didnt need to do anything to it to do the work
