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no electricity bill ever- advice needed
Hi, the situation is- i moved into a new build rented flat five years ago. When I moved in the guy moving out said, 'btw, there are no electricity bills for this flat.' 'ok,' i thought. I checked this out with the gas supplier (EDF) and they confirmed that there was no account for the flat and set me up on a tariff for…
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U-switch wine offer, can you use it twice?
Has anyone used the u-switch wine offer twice? Last year I took advantage of this free wine offer when switching with U-switch. Got the wine, all very nice. My contract is due for renewal after 1st June, and I would like to know, if I use U-switch again (which are the cheapest), do I qualify for the free wine again? I'm…
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Bit annoyed with Eon...can I refuse DD increase?
I am with Eon and billed quarterly but pay monthly by Direct Debit (dual fuel). My direct debit payments are £57 a month. My direct debit payments come out the 7th of each month. Yesterday I had an email from Eon asking to submit meter readings, which I did, even my online account was showing the bill was not due till the…
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Scottish Power: computer says no (a rant)
Scottish Power sent an email to say that as we are £15 in debit (first time ever - usually they owe us money) they were putting up our direct debit. We rang to query this and also to change onto their Online Energy Reward. We were told we could do this but they would still put up our direct debit. We pointed out that it…
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EoN Big Error - Please Help
Hi All, I rang EoN today to change my direct debit amount as well as provide a meter reading. I live in a large flat block so we have thermal store. There are three sets of meter readings you have to give. Shortly giving the reading over the phone EoN customer services rang back to say that the account has to be under…
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MSE News: Energy prices - should you fix?
This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story: "After the cheapest deal was pulled last week amid rising wholesale costs, some experts think you should play safe ..." Read the full story: Energy prices: should you fix?
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Electricty Supply and Back Billing
Strange one this. Moved into a brand new property in September 2006 and contacted our previous Gas/Electricity Supplier to take over the supply from the builders. This all got sorted and have been happily paying our supplier (Scottish Power) for the last 3.5 years. I received a letter a few days ago from E-on stating that…
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British Gas..... have let me down
So I order a new Combi Gas Boiler, with a couple of new radiators, and opt to have it installed in a new part of the house. Date booked for instilation, am told I need to be present and to allow 2 days. I duly booked the time off work, to enable delivery of the Boiler and materials on Wednesday, and also allow me time to…
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£800 Click 5 Electricity bill - help needed
This is my first post on this forum. I am looking for some suggestions about how to tackle a massive price increase in my electricity bills which I think are simply wrong but I'm getting no assistance from British Gas. I think that the problem relates to a new electricity meter installed in November 2009. I own a 4…
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Sizeable debt owed by landlord
We moved into a rental property after a fire at our home. The landlord has given our details to EDF who want to check the meter. They say there is a sizeable debt owed on the property.. Will I be liable to for any period before we moved in? Also EDF wouldn't be my choice of supplier. Should I let them read the meter and in…
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Standing charge v No Standing charge
Does anyone know of a simple method of comparing electricity tariffs with standing charges versus ones with no standing charges, the comparison sites I have looked at do not seem to make much of a job of it and I have been trying to work it out myself but gave up.
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British Gas "prompt payment" discount a joke!
I have a British Gas account which I pay quarterly. Over the last quarter, due to various relatives staying and the fact I have a large chilly Victorian house, I had to keep the heating on almost continuously and ended up with a £600+ gas bill. What annoys me is not the size of the bill but the "prompt payment" discount…
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new electric meter
Scottish Gas are coming in a couple of weeks to change my electric meter which is very noisy. The woman on the phone said it would replaced "like for like". Does anyone know if this means they will automaticaly replace it with an old fashioned dial meter, like we currently have, or will I get a nice shiny digital (and…
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British Gas Websaver 7 and Quidco-how much cashback?
I've just applied to switch to BG Websaver 7 via Quidco and it's tracking at £10 only. According to Quidco it's Websaver 6 that only pays £10, and all other single fuel switches should be £25. Has anyone had a different experience-or can I expect the amount to change at a later date?
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Bill received after using a prepayment meter
When I moved into this property eight years ago prepayment meters were already installed so I carried on using them I was with E.on a few years ago, switched to British Gas and my payments went up hugely so switched again to N Power who I am happy with, and I went back to paying around £18 a week for electricity and £12…
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Help with warrant to gain access
Hello, since dec last year myself and partner have a rough time. With her losing her job and ill parents.↲↲To cut a long story short our electricity supplier is threatening to gain access and install prepayment meter.↲ ↲This would not be plausable for me as we are not able to gain access to the meter at will as we live in…
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no electric/gas bill for over a year!!
ok, my situation is moved into a new build estate April 09. Tried to sort out my gas and electric but was told that there was a problem with the meter numbers being registered to the wrong properties. Had a call saying it was being looked into, not sure who this was that phoned, and that would hear when it was sorted. No…
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Pre payment gas and electric?
I was thinking about going over to a pre-payment meter for both gas and electric. Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of this and how much it would be to change the meters over. Thank you :)
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Heating the home - gas or electric??
Hi all, im new to the forum, we are moving into a semi-detached small bungalow, and the whole house needs doing up... its currently got a back boiler system in the chimney and a bunch of radiators throughout the house? Its only my wife an I living there, is it more cost effective to take out all the radiators and back…
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EON Fixonline 8
Thinking of switching to this tarrif instead of scottish power online energy 9 now and before i cancel my sign up and sign with eon i would like to know if the discounts are applied on each quarterly bill or yearly like N power?
