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First Utility. Any Good?

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  • Vestra
    Vestra Posts: 856 Forumite
    I would strongly reccomend staying away from first utility, as far as I can see they are far from capable of running a utility company. As working for a supplier dealing with them the most common things they do is, they will change your meter before they are the legal supplier and they somehow fail to update the national database with meter changes or even inform the local distributor.

    These practices cause much confusion to the previous supplier or any supplier you want to switch to after.

    I have also heard the smart meters don't work as advertised.
  • Cardew
    Cardew Posts: 29,064 Forumite
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    Premier wrote: »
    How much do they charge for gas & electric??? :confused:

    Depends on area;

    Click your area on the map in this link

    http://www.first-utility.com/residential/residential-products-electricity.htm
  • pbfhpunk
    pbfhpunk Posts: 223 Forumite
    Rian1988 wrote: »
    I would strongly reccomend staying away from first utility, as far as I can see they are far from capable of running a utility company. As working for a supplier dealing with them the most common things they do is, they will change your meter before they are the legal supplier and they somehow fail to update the national database with meter changes or even inform the local distributor.

    These practices cause much confusion to the previous supplier or any supplier you want to switch to after.

    I have also heard the smart meters don't work as advertised.

    How do you mean don't work? they don't send the information?
    Hell yeah!!
  • Vestra
    Vestra Posts: 856 Forumite
    pbfhpunk wrote: »
    How do you mean don't work? they don't send the information?
    That's what I've heard.
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