Receiving electric from no supplier!

sunsetgal

Thanks for that loon. I am happy to write to France!

April2

sunsetgal,

Get EnergyWatch involved a.s.a.p.

http://www.energywatch.org.uk/

P.S. If you have a cheap geographical calls package (18866 or 1899 etc.) don't use their 0845 number - use 020 7654 9470.

Ignite

Similar to the problems I had with Scottish Power over a gas meter. In 1999, a flat from the block over the road had requested gas, and they were Flat 1, 4 ..... Road. We are Flat 4, 1 ..... Road. They installed it on our building. We bought our flat in 2003 and I called the meter line and was told that we did not have gas. We kept getting bills addressed to somebody who had never lived here and after 18 months of sending them back as unknown at this address, they finally sent one to the ocupier. I opened it and found that we apparently did have gas. The letters were addressed to us at Flat 4, 1 for a meter they had as being on Flat 1, 4 but the meter was on the outside of our building. It has never been used and is still capped. I called Scottish Power and it was eventually booted up to the call center manager! As it would have cost to get it disconnected, she transfered the account to a zero standing charge tarrif so I would never get charged. This was backdated to when we moved in.

2 months later, I was sent a bill in my name for gas standing charge since 1999. This was dated on the Thursday and I received it the following Monday. I called them up, and they refused to talk to me as in the 4 days since the bill had been printed, they had changed the name on the account and they said that as I was not the account holder, they would not talk to me. DPA and all that. In the end I called Energy Watch and they were horified at the way I had been treated. The next day I had a call from the office of the chief exec at Scottish Power and they were not happy with the way I had been treated either. In the end the gas account was closed totally and I got £50 compensation. The same day I found that this had been credited to my electricity account (I had my electricity with them), I signed up with Zest 4.

This is a tale that shows that Energy Watch does work and it normally works out to your advantage if you are totally honest.

Andy

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They can't backdate the bill more than six years, so you could accumulate six years money in an investment account, and then wait to see what happens.

csingleton

I'm in the same boat! I moved in to myhouse in Feburary, I phoned Powergen to ask to be switched for my electric and gas. They said fine. I received a bill a few months latter for my gas only. I phoned them up and they said they are not supplying electricity to me. The people who lived here before where on scottish power and I havn't recieved any bill in the old tenants name since Feburary. Back in May someone came to read the meter. I will be moving out soon and I have tried several time to find out my supplier from MPAS but no luck. I've tried my best. If someone sends me a bill before I move out then I will be happy to pay it.