Replacing old dial type electricity meter with unwanted Smart meter - choice?

BarelySentientAI

Baz1878 said:

Always used payg meter, never had any issues , then one day the screen went blank .meter still working, morrisons came to read meter but unable. reported the problem to scottish power
Who were delighted ,as they could now send out an engineer to fix it.Fix it they did he said i am replacing youre old meter for new one, if this fails you will have to accept a smart meter. 4 days later it broke .still have power but it won,t accept payment on key . A  S/P  rep turned up , trying to convince us to have a smet 2 .seems a bit shady to me.

What that actually says is "I had a PAYG meter and as it got old it broke.  They fitted another old meter, which also broke.  Now they want to fit a brand new, state of the art meter, as they are supposed to do."

Doesn't sound shady at all.  Sounds like exactly what a rational person would think might happen.

EssexHebridean

Hello Baz - what do you think is “shady” about this? And as said - what are your concerns about having a modern meter? Your old one was clearly a digital one - so the new one won’t really look any different, and it will certainly be a lot more user friendly with the ability to top up online as well. A lot of people post here saying they don’t want a smart meter and when asked their reasons, they are usually things that either simply aren’t true - or stuff that has been overblown by those who get a kick out off scaring others, making them anxious. Just recently we had someone who had been told that the smart meter would run from their home WiFi for example - definitely not true! 

Rivers_mum

Netexporter said:

Have you got any logical reason not to want a smart meter? Do you know that not everything you see/read on the internet is true?

Whilst that’s true the experience of people I know who have had stupid billing issues after having them fitted because energy providers seem to be stupid and unable to comprehend the simplest things makes me think I’m perfectly happy as things are. I photograph the meters every month and submit the readings and can’t see a problem with it. I’m the sort of person that a smart meter IHD wouldn’t be helpful for. 

MP1995

Rivers_mum said:

Netexporter said:

Have you got any logical reason not to want a smart meter? Do you know that not everything you see/read on the internet is true?

Whilst that’s true the experience of people I know who have had stupid billing issues after having them fitted because energy providers seem to be stupid and unable to comprehend the simplest things makes me think I’m perfectly happy as things are. I photograph the meters every month and submit the readings and can’t see a problem with it. I’m the sort of person that a smart meter IHD wouldn’t be helpful for. 

Are you in the fortunate position where you don't need cheaper energy smart meter tariffs can provide?

booneruk

Rivers_mum said:

I photograph the meters every month and submit the readings

You can keep doing this with a smart meter, you know. Though it would be sensible to first look on your account and see what readings are being sent automatically (so not to submit manual readings that are measuring some other figure). 

BarelySentientAI

MP1995 said:

Rivers_mum said:

Netexporter said:

Have you got any logical reason not to want a smart meter? Do you know that not everything you see/read on the internet is true?

Whilst that’s true the experience of people I know who have had stupid billing issues after having them fitted because energy providers seem to be stupid and unable to comprehend the simplest things makes me think I’m perfectly happy as things are. I photograph the meters every month and submit the readings and can’t see a problem with it. I’m the sort of person that a smart meter IHD wouldn’t be helpful for. 

Are you in the fortunate position where you don't need cheaper energy smart meter tariffs can provide?

It is a very odd thing to advertise - "I'm deliberately choosing to use an obsolete technology and pay more for it".