British Gas trying to steal my supply!!!

steve_cov

When I moved here, I called East Midlands Electricity (my supplier) with the two meter readings.

British Gas (a company with which I absolutely refuse to have any dealings) subsequently sent me a bill and told me, in the style of a prison thug, that I was their !!!!! now, simply because the previous owners had been their customer.

I told them what they could do and told them that as I had not been their customer, I would not be paying them. I didn't pay them, either.

My willingness to deal with British Gas came to an abrupt halt in 1998 when I moved out of a shared, rented house which had a pre-payment meter, to find that they were claiming £120 in gas which had been used but not paid for. They were not able to explain how this had been possible with a pre-payment meter. It took seven months for them to accept there was no possible liability, but they even went to the trouble in 2001 of sending a further letter demanding the £120. Fortunately I had kept their earlier letter.

Do not deal with British Gas: it will end in tears. Yours.

Katyag

browsingid wrote:

Do you live in a tenement in Aberdeen? I live in one in Edinburgh, and three times in the last ten years we have had the exact same experience as you describe.

My understanding of the problem is that someone else in my stair has switched their suppliers and the meter numbers/references have gotten mixed up when the switch has been processed, so your original suppliers stop billing you, and yet no new bills ever come, and you are left non-plussed as to the reason for the switch in the first place!

I think it is a bit strange that once the switch process starts it can't be stopped - especially as accidental or unscrupulous incorrect switches seem to happen quite a lot (in my experience anyway!).

Most bizarre!! Its not really a tenement, but there are 4 houses in this block and we all share a communal door. So i guess a tenement really! lol Might go have a word with the neighbours and see what they say.