Eon Court Date

splodge1983

Hi There, I have a court date with Eon on 22nd March 2013 for them to get a warrant to fit a prepayment meter. At the time they applied for the court date I owed £1300, however, I have since paid nearly £200 off this and will be paying another £700-800 this week. As I will have nearly paid the debt off do you think it is worth me asking them to stop the court action and arrange a monthly payment on top of normal payments to clear the additional £300? They had previously said that because there was so much outstanding they would not put a payment plan in place bt once there is only £300 outstanding would they consider this? The reason is that if they go to court they are going to charge me an additional £250 which will then almost double the amount still outstanding!

Any advice would be appreciated as I really want to avoid the additional £250 if at all possible.

chanz4

It depends,been open and honest how many plans have you failed? Also to avoid the charge ask for a pre-pay prior to the date, although you are noramly liable for the application fee of the warrant

macman

As above, accept a PPM voluntarily-then no warrant needed.

Wywth

splodge1983 wrote: »

Hi There, I have a court date with Eon on 22nd March 2013 for them to get a warrant to fit a prepayment meter. At the time they applied for the court date I owed £1300, however, I have since paid nearly £200 off this and will be paying another £700-800 this week. As I will have nearly paid the debt off do you think it is worth me asking them to stop the court action and arrange a monthly payment on top of normal payments to clear the additional £300? They had previously said that because there was so much outstanding they would not put a payment plan in place bt once there is only £300 outstanding would they consider this? The reason is that if they go to court they are going to charge me an additional £250 which will then almost double the amount still outstanding!

Any advice would be appreciated as I really want to avoid the additional £250 if at all possible.

I suspect you have already incurred some of the court fees in the supplier simply applying to the court for a warrant. These would be non-refundable.

Now there is a hearing, then the supplier would also have paid the hearing fees. The court will only refund 50% of the hearing fee if they are advised of a cancellation 7-14 days before the hearing - less than 7 days notice and no refund is available.

As someone else said, you could have avoided all these fees by simply having agreed to a PPM voluntarily in the first place.

C_Mababejive

No. I believe your Goose is cooked and i would strongly advise you to contact them asap and invite them round to fit a ppm to try and avoid further hefty legal costs. They WILL come round anyway when they get the warrant and they will either cut you off altogether or fit the PPM.

It isnt all bad news.

Be proactive. contact them,try to fend off the legal costs by volunteering to have the ppm. Be in when they call as if they get no access visits,they may assume avoidance.

In time the ppm will aid your cash flow and you will use less gas because you will learn to manage it.

splodge1983

Thank you very much for your comments. I did ask for a prepayment meter to be fitted voluntarily 2 months ago but they would not do this unless I paid half the outstanding debt which I was not in a position to do at the time (I have been on maternity leave and have only just returned to work), in addition to this, I offered a payment plan which would have meant that that I was paying £400 per month and they would not accept this (I do have email replies from Eon customer services to prove all of this), therefore, there have been no failed payment plans as they would not agree to one without an upfront payment of £650.00 and they would not voluntarily fit a prepayment meter. This is why this £250.00 is so stressful, I have done everything possible to try and avoid this.

Thank you again for your suggestions. Is there any point in me attending court with these emails to explain that I have tried to come to an amicable solution with Eon but they never gave me a workable solution?

chanz4

Sorry I have been in the industry a while, something is missing. The warrant is to obtain access to their meter.

Wywth

splodge1983 wrote: »

Thank you very much for your comments. I did ask for a prepayment meter to be fitted voluntarily 2 months ago but they would not do this unless I paid half the outstanding debt ...

That doesn't make any sense. You must have misunderstood them ... and they you if they did not accept your invitation to have them install a PPM.

The reason the supplier would wish to install a PPM is so they can load the debt to it and so force you to repay the debt as you use their energy. (as well as prevent you from running up more debt on an unlimited credit meter)

C_Mababejive

splodge1983 wrote: »

Thank you again for your suggestions. Is there any point in me attending court with these emails to explain that I have tried to come to an amicable solution with Eon but they never gave me a workable solution?

I guess its possible but really,you need to run up the white flag and contact them to try to avoid court action and subsequent costs. Leaving aside the pre-amble,it appears you owe them money and they want it. Best to invite them to fit ppm as the recovery rate will be much less than your proposed up front payment. Just look on it as a free loan You do not want to be loaded up with extra legal costs as they may be considerable,that along with paying for a bailliff/locksmith and Gas engineer to attend to take enforcement action. Remember,its just business,its not personal.

chanz4

They may think the only sucessfull way is to get a warrant, on the pre-visit were you been co-operative with them

C_Mababejive

#11..interesting. Did you owe money or are you still not sure?