New homeowner high electricity bill - advice please

McKneff

n

Carrot007 wrote: »

Pretty much this. If you did not you are probably paying the previous tennants usage. And probably deserve to.

Thats really uncalled for

Behave and be nice

r2015

I assume you are drunk because this was never the case.

Are you sure?

Carrot007

McKneff wrote: »

n

Thats really uncalled for

Behave and be nice

I am never fully serious!

Carrot007

r2015 wrote: »

Are you sure?

Yes, one trarrif per metering type maybe. One tarrif no.

Carrot007

thriftylass wrote: »

Yes we do "I've been in since December so its been about 6 months in total. "

And the monthly meter readings are provided where?

Robin9

Carrot007 wrote: »

You do understand that the only reason any of us get cheaper tarrifs is that idiots get put onto standard tarrifs?

Having a bad day are we Carrot ? Just because some of us keep our eyes and ears open doesn't make the rest of the population "idiots"

r2015

When I first left home and started married life in my own home in 1968, if you had a, what was known in these days, as a dry meter, now known as a credit meter, you had one tariff and paid your bill every 3 months in the Hydro electric shop.


No DDs in those days.


If you were poor and couldn't afford that, you had a prepayment meter into which you put half crowns and every 3 months a man would come and empty the meter and give you some half crowns back.


When I was a boy it was a shilling.


So OK there might not have been 1 tariff but there was only 1 tariff for prepayment and only 1 tariff for credit meters not like the hundreds that there are now.

Smodlet

r2015 wrote: »

When I first left home and started married life in my own home in 1968, if you had a, what was known in these days, as a dry meter, now known as a credit meter, you had one tariff and paid your bill every 3 months in the Hydro electric shop.


No DDs in those days.


If you were poor and couldn't afford that, you had a prepayment meter into which you put half crowns and every 3 months a man would come and empty the meter and give you some half crowns back.


When I was a boy it was a shilling.


So OK there might not have been 1 tariff but there was only 1 tariff for prepayment and only 1 tariff for credit meters not like the hundreds that there are now.

Them were't days, tha knows, when't stegosaurus rormed majestically across t'plains.

ValiantSon

tomlambert wrote: »

Hello, Thanks in advance for reading my post.

I've just bought my first apartment and I thought I had setup all my utility and council tax accounts for the new place. I've been in since December so its been about 6 months in total.

I rang up SSE to find out why I hadn't had a bill and they told me that the new account had never been setup, asked me when I had moved in and for the meter readings from then and now, and then sent me a bill for £1,073.

This seems high to me and its probably because I'm was forced onto their standard tariff, with the unhelpful custom services rep stating that he couldn't put me on a lower tariff in hindsight only for future bills, and it was my responsibility to ring them and setup the account which I've failed to do.

I do agree that I forgot to do this so its kinda my fault, but is responsibility really implied? I don't want to get out of paying the bill I just think it would be fair to use a normal lower tariff rather than the inflated standard tariff.

Do you guys agree or should I just be quiet and pay it. It would be £166 per month for a 2 bed flat (electricity only).

Thank youuu!

The standard variable tarrif is the "normal" tarrif. I'm afraid that you are just going to have to chalk this one up to eperience and pay the bill.

mije1983

notbritishgas wrote: »

OP
Did you take the reading when you moved in?

I'm assuming so as they said...

tomlambert wrote: »

asked me when I had moved in and for the meter readings from then and now, and then sent me a bill for £1,073.

So it seems like the bill is based on actual readings the OP supplied.