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Which pre-payment card do I use?

I have 2 pre-payment cards for my gas supply due to switching to different suppliers (I will call these Supplier A, B and C). I have a card for supplier A and Supplier C. When I switched to Supplier B, I didn't receive a card, I was told I would get one shortly and to keep using Supplier A's card in the meantime.

I did this and because I wasn't using much gas and because I was told any credit would get "lost" when using the new card I just used the emergency credit. After many phone calls I still hadn't received the card, so decided to switch provider AGAIN due to Supplier B being utterly useless!

Now because this has taken so long, I have still only used a small amount of the emergency £10 credit (about £1-2) but the standing charge doesn't come out of the emergency credit. With the standing charge and the £10 credit, I owe just shy of £25 (£15 standing charge and £10 credit)

Now, I've got a card with the new supplier who went live yesterday but I'm not sure which card to "top up" with. Obviously I borrowed the emergency credit using Supplier A's card, run the standing charge up whilst messing about with Supplier B and now I'm finally with Supplier C.

Now it's time to "pay off" the emergency credit and the standing charge debt. But which card do I use? Do I use Supplier A's card since I borrowed the emergency credit off them or Supplier C's card as they are my new supplier?

Oh and to complicate matters even more, Supplier B sent me a letter saying due to the hassle, they will waive all usage and standing charges so they'll be nothing to pay

Comments

  • Gerry1
    Gerry1 Posts: 10,463 Forumite
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    Welcome to the forum.  Sounds like it's time you switched to a credit meter !  Why spend so much more just to get hassle?
  • That's the main reason we switched, Supplier A (Boost) are apparently a PAYG only supplier so we switched to try and get a credit meter. 
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