A festive freezing with your card meter??

lemontart

adprob wrote: »

If your meter goes below 50p then you can call your local emergency number for electric or the national grid emergency number for gas. They offer a 4 hour call out but this is subject to any emergency (gas leak, major power cut) that might occur!

for petes sake how many times do I have to say DO NOT CALL NATIONAL GRID GAS EMERGENCY for this you MUST CALL YOUR GAS SUPPLIER as only they can authorise an engineer for you also your suppliers may use another company to carry out their metering work for them such as united utilies in the case of some bg meters - if you call the emergency number it is wasting your time, my time and not solving your problem as the emergency service deals with leaks, fires and explosions not the fact you have not topped up nor does it deal with power cuts - for those you contact your local electricity distributor.

I work on the gas emergency line and know exactly who can help and it not our gas emergency engineers.#

And for those of you who think that saying you have a leak when you have not will sort a meter fault out or lack of ofr thought to top up it will not as the emergency engineer will only deal with a "leak" and not the mtr fault or put emergency credit on yr meter either.

logie28

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BexTech wrote: »

Note: If you have kids or are elderly, then don't have the awful pre-payment meters, that way you can't run out of credit.

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I'm sure most people on prepayment aren't on them through choice!! paying a premium, messing about topping up credit, not really a choice issue.

Mainly due to landlord or bad credit , not choice!!

KimYeovil

logie28 wrote: »

I'm sure most people on prepayment aren't on them through choice!! paying a premium, messing about topping up credit, not really a choice issue.

Mainly due to landlord or bad credit , not choice!!

I'm sure of the contrary - most are on them through choice. Relatively few will be due to landlords (and even there they still chose to take the tenancy). And bad credit is their choice. Ignore the bills and letters for months on end and then cry all surprised.

Plan ahead. It is Christmas, after all, not Easter. Easy enough to know in advance when it will be.

Pssst

KimYeovil wrote: »

I'm sure of the contrary - most are on them through choice. Relatively few will be due to landlords (and even there they still chose to take the tenancy). And bad credit is their choice. Ignore the bills and letters for months on end and then cry all surprised.

Plan ahead. It is Christmas, after all, not Easter. Easy enough to know in advance when it will be.

Prepayment meters are used by all kinds of people.

They may be people who have fallen on hard times and have previously been your average diligent member of society.

They might be tenants in a property which had PP meter fitted when they moved in

They might actually elect to have a PP meter as a way of budgeting

They might be refugees/asylum seekers living in rented property

They might be bone idle and Fec*less and prefer to spend money on drink,drugs,smokes or whatever


Either way, they need to ring their supplier if they have problems and if their supplier doesnt answer the phone over Christmas then they will have to freeze.