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£5 of leccy in three days?! WTF?

I always keep my pre-pay receipt things until I've put the key in as the brewing righteous indignation keeps me warm. Then I recycle them :)
 
Clair De Lune said:
I had a bill recently for £1,486 for three months worth of electric!!
I am not on a meter obviously.
I am chuffed to say that by taking meter readings over two days I got it down to £56...they are fucking muppets :D
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I literally would have fainted.

Sorry to pry, but earlier on another thread you said you're losing your house. What's going on?
 
Mrs Magpie said:
Just don't go anywhere near EDF. They are useless. My bills fluctuate all over the place and for or ages they had my address wrong and said I was refusing them access :mad: They then insisted I owed them hundreds of pounds after my meter was read, and threatened all sorts if I didn't pay up, which I did, and then 6 months later after my meter had been read twice I was suddenly hundreds of pounds in credit.
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If it's not the Jocks it's the Frogs :mad:
 
Mrs Magpie said:
Just don't go anywhere near EDF. They are useless. My bills fluctuate all over the place and for or ages they had my address wrong and said I was refusing them access :mad: They then insisted I owed them hundreds of pounds after my meter was read, and threatened all sorts if I didn't pay up, which I did, and then 6 months later after my meter had been read twice I was suddenly hundreds of pounds in credit.
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I am with EDF - or London Energy as they were when I signed up - after having a similar experience with British bastard Gas that started with an innocuous request for a final meter reading and went through ludicrous bills, denials that calls I'd made and logged and letters I'd kept copies of had ever been made or sent, and ended with them admitting I actually owed them all of seven paltry quid. :mad:
 
Have just found this from a thread in November 2008

b/f has a pre-payment meter. I went to bed on Friday night (Saturday morning) at 2.50am and there was £21.22 on the electricity meter. It is now down to under £9, so that's around £12 in three days

Our water is heated by gas. It's the heater that's eating all the electricity :(
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£12 on leccy in three days is what we spent over weekend. We have energy saving lightbulbs. I only did 2 lots of washing and two lots of drying. Did a roast on Saturday (in the top little oven). Have sat and watched TV sitting next to oil-filled radiator. Computer is turned on all day, otherwise not a lot else on. Video is on because it has digital clock, but DVD is turned off.
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from this thread

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=271379&highlight=electric+meter&page=2
 
Pip said:
I literally would have fainted.

Sorry to pry, but earlier on another thread you said you're losing your house. What's going on?
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Only moved here in Feb and my landlord assured me that he wanted someone long term. Now he tells me that the building work that he has had done downstairs (not in my property) has cost him way more than expected and that he is going to sell the place. I am gutted cos we all really like it here and moving house was hell so I am not in a rush to do it all over again so soon. Househunting all over again :(
 
Minnie have you got double glazing? I knocked up a load of rather amazing double fakzing (shut up I just made it up :mad:) panels to put inside my boyfriend's windows last winter.
 
Pip said:
Minnie have you got double glazing? I knocked up a load of rather amazing double fakzing (shut up I just made it up :mad:) panels to put inside my boyfriend's windows last winter.
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Yep, but we seem to get a massive draught from the front door. The stairwell has no windows
 
I got through about a fiver in 3 or 4 days when I was on a prepay meter here but I've got 3 kids so that was using the washing machine and the dishwasher a lot. I got mine changed to a normal meter ASAP - why won't they let you have one?
 
weepiper said:
I got through about a fiver in 3 or 4 days when I was on a prepay meter here but I've got 3 kids so that was using the washing machine and the dishwasher a lot. I got mine changed to a normal meter ASAP - why won't they let you have one?
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Because according to them, they don't let people on benefits have a normal meter. I thought 'fuck off' at the time and half heartedly challenged it, but I haven't really had a reason to get more vehement since.
 
I don't want a normal meter now I am poor because I'm scared of bills. I get pissed off at being £340 in credit on my gas during the summer then £140 in debt during the winter so it's best I just leave it really.
 
Clair De Lune said:
haha fair enough.
Cheers, it sucks ass.
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Tbf you were sort of agreeing with me and arranging plane tickets for me while I was going "yeah yeah yeah I can do that, tell them I'm an illustrator, wtf do they know?" which is an act of kindness more than anything.
 
Pip said:
Tbf you were sort of agreeing with me and arranging plane tickets for me while I was going "yeah yeah yeah I can do that, tell them I'm an illustrator, wtf do they know?" which is an act of kindness more than anything.
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What was I up to? other than being awesome?
 
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