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Beware N Power via uswitch
What a fool i have been, being persuaded by this forum to switch providers from British Gas to N Power, i was paying last November £100 a month for gas and electric with British Gas, but via uswitch i changed to N Power who would save me £26 a month, my new payments being £74 a month. Fantastic i thought, how clever i am,…
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Any Know Anything About Pre-pay Electric Meters?
We have just go one fitted, any time we put money in 40% of it goes to something called PC Concession. EG I put £10 in this morning and on the little docket it said £6.00 and £4.00 PC Concession. Only £6 went in when I keyed in the code.
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edf salesperon
Hi First post on the forum. Basically, I have to questions. Firstly, we had an edf doortodoor salesperson come round yesterday. He was pushing thereannual fix tariff. We compared our last bill, 7months gas and 6 m onths electricity, by calculating what the cost would have been on the last bill using edf's current annual…
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How long till Eon Change their online Tarriffs
Any ideas anyone I check my rate with EON once a month and enter my meter reading in aswell. I changed to their energysaveronlive v13 a few months ago, but now the new rate has come out I cant seem to find a better tarriff with EON. Your thoughts do I jump ship and go to british gass who are 7% cheaper, or stay put and…
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electricity supplier
Can you help ? my sister moved into a privately rented flat yesterday,she gave the last readings from her previous address to her electricity supplier but she does not know who the supplier is at her new address so she can not give the reading when she moved in:confused: the landlord says he does not know who the previous…
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Big Bill - Interesting Phone Call
Hi, I received a bill yesterday from EDF Energy. It was for about £1,200, and was for electricity from Early Jan 08 to Jun 09. I don't use much electricity, but this seemed pretty fair. I thought I had been paying it as I signed up with DD when I first moved in, not sure how I could have missed that one! Anyway, I rang up…
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Central Heating not working boiler cutting out
Hi The current weather does not require central heating fortunately, but in the last 1 month or so, my downstairs readiators are not warming up at all. The upstairs boilers are OK. When the heating is switched on, the boiler cuts out in about 5-10 minutes. One plumber suggested de sludging and problem persists in spite of…
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Eon announces gas price cuts
This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story: Eon announces gas price cuts
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Electricity token meters have been undercharging for years?
Since I moved to this house 15 years ago, I have had a pre-payment meter. Until recently this was a token (card) meter, then 7 months ago a guy turns upon the doorstep to replace it with a key meter. Today I have received a letter stating that I have an outstanding debt of £125. I phoned NPower to enquire how this could…
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SP save 5% by paying a year in advance. Thoughts please???
I am tempted as it won`t change my energy use. It will be like getting 5% on a savings account and not being taxed on it. Have I missed anything and is there a snag?
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pay as you got metre reverted back to credit while working away
hi nightmare situation here im on a pay as you go payment card method to pay my gas or i thort i was when i left home to work abroad november 2008. I returned home this week to find pile letters from my provider 1 states there has been an error with my metre an it had reverted back to a credit meter and to change it back…
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EDF Energy is horrible...any ideas?
Today, I found out that edf charged me over 1070 GBP for "catch up" charges. I've lived in the same flat for about 2.5 years, and they just decided to read the meter one day and back charge me for the entire period. I make consistent monthly payments, and then out of nowhere this happens. What, they can't read my meter…
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WARNING: Utility Warehouse (Telecom Plus PLC)
I know there is a thread about this company, BUT this is important. If you have an "account" with this company and have broadband mobiles and home phone PLUS gas and electricty check your bill to see if it has more than one VAT number on it. If it has check the validity of the "invoice" with HMRC VAT (Normally on the front…
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anyone had luck getitng b.gas charges reversed?
had agreed nominal payments with BG on elec and gas a/cs, while out of work.. have come come to find a slip of paper (no date), saying the have come to visit, and charged me £60 for the privilege.. further charges to be added / disconnection to be done (with magistrates warant, and more charges??) if i dont pay in full…
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How to find the cheapset deals?
I want to switch to the cheapest deals, not sure how. Can somebody help?
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Electricians out there...can my meter run fast??
OK, here's the thing... We bought a house about 6 months ago and since that time we've been doing it up (not living there) but the electricity meter has never moved even though we've been using quite a bit of the stuff and the meter has been physically read twice. (We actually had the same thing previously at another…
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Southern Electricity - Broken into home
Please excuse me as this is my first ever post. Are southern electric allowed to break into your home to fit a pre-payment meter without a court order? Any advise appreciated?
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Eon Admitted Error for people switching
I got a letter today about my switch that would be done on the 26th june and that my direct debit would be.. get ready £500+ a month and that the direct debit was all ready to go. if i had not checked they would have tried to take iit. the lady told me that this is a issue with switching. just a warning to people. anyone…
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HUGE DEBIT with NPower
I have just recieved my duel fuel bill with NPower and find I am £600 in arrears. I used Uswitch to swop to them and passed on the details of my previous years consumption, and they said, the appropriate direct debit would be £73 a month, but this was out by almost £50, hence the debt. My consumption has not increased, in…
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HELP!! Flat nightmare!
I am going to post another problem im having in a diff section but Im having such a nightmare with my newly rented flat!! :( Im a student in Edinburgh and just rented a flat. The letting agency got my flatmate and I to fill out a direct debit mandate when we signed the lease to set up something with Scottish Hydro for our…
