Help, shock £1202 gas bil!!!!!

Cardew

wineoclock36 wrote: »

What is your definition of avoiding?

Do you think they will change their mind then? and re send the bill for 2 yrs after just speaking to them?

Also, I didnt even mention the billing code or only paying 12 months, all i asked was why they had never sent correspondance. They mentioned the 12 yr billing code/rule.

Avoiding? - Someone who knows they owe money for the service they are receiving and takes no reasonable action to pay that money.

If you speak to someone in the call centre, they will not do any investigation of the circumstances.

I suspect that the bill will be passed to a supervisor who after examining the case, might take a different view with that sort of money involved.

wineoclock36

It wasnt the call center, I was given a special number to call by the call center.

If scottish power tell me they are not my supplier, as did everyone else, how am i avoiding paying?

Cardew

wineoclock36 wrote: »

If scottish power tell me they are not my supplier, as did everyone else, how am i avoiding paying?

If you don't know, then there is no point in getting into a semantic discussion.

If it salves your conscience to believe you have the moral high ground - so be it!

wineoclock36

As I said previously, it was scottish powers decision that it should only be 12 months, nothing to do with me believing i have the moral high ground?
Obviously i never expected free electricity and expected to pay whatever they requested when they finally responded to me. But after the new billing rules, who wouldn't hope to only pay 12 months back?

Kylie

Don't feel bad. I know what it's like to deal with these companies when they refuse to talk sense. It took me more than a year to sort out my electricity at my last flat. NPower was never able to provide me with a bill. I called them/faxed them/emailed them/wrote to them more than once a week for more than 12 months. I gave up. I ended up sending them a bill for my time, etc, trying to resolve the issue of billing. Didn't here from them again.

wineoclock36

thanks kylie for being nice, much appreciated.

Cardew

wineoclock36 wrote: »

As I said previously, it was scottish powers decision that it should only be 12 months, nothing to do with me believing i have the moral high ground?
Obviously i never expected free electricity and expected to pay whatever they requested when they finally responded to me. But after the new billing rules, who wouldn't hope to only pay 12 months back?

QUOTE=wineoclock36;22147301
Does the 1 yr rule apply here?

If you get away with it - fine.

However it does sound a trifle disingenuous to suggest that you "expected to pay" for Five and a half years electricity when you posted here asking if the 12 month rule applied.

If you had said "I have got away without paying for my electricity for five and a half years and want advice on how I can not pay for most of the outstanding bills" it might have been nearer the mark.

wineoclock36

Well, I am just awaiting a revised bill, and what will be will be.

You seem a little judgemental to me, after reading posts re the the 12 month rule, who wouldn't wonder if it applied?

But the best thing about it all, is that if it is only 12 mths, or even 24mths, the money we saved for our bill will be considerably less than expected, so what ever is left will prob take us on a rather exotic holiday!

Quite a nice unexpected treat!