Inflated gas readings

beefturnmail

If you inflate too much and the energy company don't think it's a valid reading they'll reject it and ask for another and/or send someone out to take their own reading.  Unlikely you'd have CID knocking to do you for fraud (IMHO)

Petriix

I think the best you can legally do is simply not provide a reading and hope that they overestimate - they usually do in my case.

Zandoni

Petriix said:

I think the best you can legally do is simply not provide a reading and hope that they overestimate - they usually do in my case.

As long as you take the reading, they might deliberately under estimate this time.

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Petriix said:

I think the best you can legally do is simply not provide a reading and hope that they overestimate - they usually do in my case.

Slight flaw in your argument. When the supplier gets a customer or actual reading, it should revise the estimate used for the change of tariff date. In my experience, where estimates have been used for billing then when a valid meter reading is provided, the supplier will revise the bill back to the last valid reading and then re-bill for the entire period.

Petriix

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Petriix said:

I think the best you can legally do is simply not provide a reading and hope that they overestimate - they usually do in my case.

Slight flaw in your argument. When the supplier gets a customer or actual reading, it should revise the estimate used for the change of tariff date. In my experience, where estimates have been used for billing then when a valid meter reading is provided, the supplier will revise the bill back to the last valid reading and then re-bill for the entire period.

It depends on how long you leave it. In any case it's understandable that people might get creative in the face of such unprecedented price increases.

Lots of people seem to believe that prices are going up by 54%. In reality, most people will be paying 3 or 4 times their total cost for gas in 2021 in 2022.

Ultrasonic

Petriix said:

Lots of people seem to believe that prices are going up by 54%. In reality, most people will be paying 3 or 4 times their total cost for gas in 2021 in 2022.

I'm not sure where you're getting that 'most people' from there and it's also somewhat misleading to focus on one fuel rather than electricity as well when what most people care about is their total energy bill. You are right though that anyone expecting to see a simple 54% increase are likely to find the reality is rather different.

wild666

There was a 57.8% increase in my bill when Avro went under but I cut my usage by over £240 per year after I started turning off everything I left in standby mode and that included kitchen appliances as well as living room bedrooms and even the shower. I started doing as my grandparents did and turned off everything not in use, you will be amazed that the appliances that use £25 per year just being in standby can save if you turn them off at the sockets  

MattMattMattUK

Petriix said:

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Petriix said:

I think the best you can legally do is simply not provide a reading and hope that they overestimate - they usually do in my case.

Slight flaw in your argument. When the supplier gets a customer or actual reading, it should revise the estimate used for the change of tariff date. In my experience, where estimates have been used for billing then when a valid meter reading is provided, the supplier will revise the bill back to the last valid reading and then re-bill for the entire period.

It depends on how long you leave it. In any case it's understandable that people might get creative in the face of such unprecedented price increases.

Lots of people seem to believe that prices are going up by 54%. In reality, most people will be paying 3 or 4 times their total cost for gas in 2021 in 2022.

Let's not use euphemisms to let them off, anyone doing this is committing fraud, pure and simple.