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  • EssexHebridean
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    Mstty said:
    So in short, horrendous customer service and billing but cheap so you stay with them.

    In the current situation of heat or eat with some where they have no cheap options I suspect most would feel the same way.
    Add the tendancy to pocket customer's money without bothering to apply it to their account, and yes, that sums it up! :lol:

    Yes - my worry is that they will end up with a lot of customers in JUST that position - possibly those who most need the ability to be able to make manual payments to topo-up accounts as and when they can afford to do so, and those people will simply see any money they pay across separately to their monthly DD vanish into a black hole. 

    Genuinely would suggest anyone looking to switch to them avoids like the plague. 


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