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British Gas forcing me to prepayment meter, can I stop it?

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  • I don't think they will listen to your arguements against the meter. They've proven that you aren't able to make payments after they've given you a service, so they have no choice but to make you prepay for it, else they'd risk being owed even more money.
  • espresso
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    I don't think they will listen to your arguements against the meter. They've proven that you aren't able to make payments after they've given you a service, so they have no choice but to make you prepay for it, else they'd risk being owed even more money.

    Didn't read post #10 did you!

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    :doh: Blue text on this forum usually signifies hyperlinks, so click on them!..:wall:
  • Just been giving it some thought, there is a possible way of avoiding to have a pre payment meter installed...you can set up a long standing payment facility, this would involve agreeing to pay a set amount each month for say 3 years, this would run in conjunction with a payment scheme to cover future bills :) ask them about it, if in the debt team they wont help.. ask to speak to Debt CLT if they wont help give me a PM i may have a better contact for u :)

    andy
    Hey folks...remember I might work for the company but I am a human and working in my own time, I will not responde to people who are rude, sarcy and crits me. My views and comments do not reflect British Gas and they are totally unreasponsable for my responses.
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