Scottish Power - VERY odd!

barncopxx

I am with Scottish Power on Fixed Price Energy online NO standing charge. On 4.3.09 I entered my G & E readings online and it did it's usual and generated an interim bill. It then asks you if you are happy with it and if so press confirm and it makes concrete your bill. It said on the interim bill that I owed £99.62 so I cancelled the meter readings and made an online payment there and then of £100 to make me 38p in credit.
I checked my account today and the £100 had been applied so I re-entered exactly the same meter readings as I did on the 4th. The interim bill came up but it now says I owe them 27p!!!!!
How can this be? It looks as if I am being charged a standing charge but by details definately say NO standing charge.

Sufice to say SP will be getting a 'phone call from me on Monday. Is this a hidden charge thay are applying to customers to make more money - as a VERY careful user of both G & E I am at a loss as to why my bills are at a record high price increases taken into account - perhaps this is part of it?????:mad:

SwanJon

barncopxx wrote: »

Is this a hidden charge

Yes.

You are charged for your gas/ele at two prices xp for the first 225kWh per day(/quarter/year), then yp for the rest. (the 225 can vary too)

So when you put the same reading in a day later (had you used no gas or electricity?), the bill calculated one more day for the same consumption, so more was charged at the higher rate than the day before.

Hmm, that dosn't look like it mkaes too much sense, but gonna have to leave it.