Late bill from EON

billtrouble1982

In June 2008 I decided to switch energy supplies so i settled my account with E-ON and switched suppliers. I gave meter readings to both new and old suppliers and thought no more of it.

Yesterday I received a bill from E-on for approx £70 which essentially covers consumption from the date I settled my last bill to the date i switched to my new supplier.

Whilst I'm not disputing the amount of the bill what I do find unreasonable is hat its taken almost 7 months for them to send me a bill. Especially when you consider that I was receiving bills in a timely fashion before and I haven't moved or made myself difficult for E-on to find.

Do i have to pay them this amount straight away? I'm of the opinion that as its taken almost seven months to bill me I should be allowed to take a reasonable amount of time to pay the amount owed with no penaltey to me.

Any advice received is grately appreciated!

Magentasue

billtrouble1982 wrote: »

its taken almost 7 months for them to send me a bill. Do i have to pay them this amount straight away? I'm of the opinion that as its taken almost seven months to bill me I should be allowed to take a reasonable amount of time to pay the amount owed with no penaltey to me.

I'm not sure they need to allow you any more time - I thought the idea of being given more time was when you were being backbilled for a long period, ie if you were being billed for seven months, you should have seven months to repay.

E.ON_Company_Representative

Hi billtrouble1982,

Don't worry about paying this all in one go, a payment arrangement can be set up.

If you send me your post code and house number by Private Message I can do this for you, save you phoning up.

Tell me in the Private Message the amount of time you are thinking of and I will see what I can do.

Brian