You might find that they can't demand it all in one lump. Try giving these people a call: - they're really useful for advice.
im in the club and gagging lol h i'm from swansea if your interesrted in getting to know me
Look on the bright side. At least you didn't have to ring them and press 2 for a message about how
"your call is important to us so we'll just keeping you hanging on paying for the phone call for a while longer and, by the way, if you'd like to speak to someone who can do something about whatever the problem is then press **45690*7. Obviously we'll not connect you to anyone who can do something about whatever the problem is but do please feel free to press **45690*7 anyway.
Also, when you do eventually get connected to a person please do remember to speak clearly as the person is probably in a different country with a different language to you and please do understand that when we ask you for identification information for the 40th time that we really do need it all those times as we don't believe the answer the first 39 times, it's for security don't you know."
On a serious note, and I'm not a legal eagle either, if they hadn't written to you to tell you about the rate changes at the time then I would consider the argument that you had a contract with them which had not be varied and so the increased charges do not apply. Even if they had changed the rate on the machine and not told you then I would say that also can be argued against as a variation and there invalid. Consider the case that Powergen contract with a supplier to for example take the services of a consultancy to develop a piece of software, say for a card based power meter, and after delivery the consultancy turned around and said "we've been charging you at a rate of £10 per hour and we were unable to change our systems to charge you at a rate of £15 per hour for 6 months of the work so here's the increased bill, please pay us now". Now what do you think Powergen would say about that.
Of course, this completely falls down if the terms and conditions say they can vary the terms and conditions (i.e. price) without notice. Bearing in mind it's a company and the consumer always gets screwed, because the T&Cs are always dictated by the company to protect the company, then I'd guess you're screwed - obviously not in the way you'd like to be.
i agree with the above......take them to court.....go to your local paper.....show them that darkfire is not to be messed with..... :twisted:
go get them sister! :twisted:
just a thought.....
we`re on a key meter....we get a statement once a year with "cost of energy used" and total we put on the key..........
have you had one???
and according to our last statement they owe us £ 78!!!!!!!!!!!!!
still waiting for the cheque 3 months later!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks 4 reminding us .......
by the way.....we put on around £10 a week.........we`re a large family with teenagers and there r always computers tv washing machines going!!!!!!!!!
seriously recon you`re paying over the odds!!!!!!!!!!
that sounds like a horrendous price hike..... that is almost a 80% hike.....
i use a pay meter and mine is about 30 pound a month....
try getting in touch with energywatch and tell them of your complaint....but that sounds ridiculous if it wasn't your fault....
sean xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
as far as I'm concerened, it aint my fault THEY didnt bother coming to alter the meter, I've paid it as required for the last 6 years (the card meter was already installed when we moved in and would have been charged to remove it) and they can come kiss my ass if they think i'm gonna stump up £600+ because of their fuck up :twisted:
Powergen :kissmyarse: :kissmyarse: :kissmyarse: :lol2:
Unlimited use? Must be a different planet she/he/it lived on.
(And £30 a month! Fuck me! my electric hasn't been that low for years; neither's the gas, what do you do? Jump into the local river instead of having a bath? Attach a dynamo to an exercise bike to power the computer?)
Surprised to hear they would charge you to change it, I moved in about a week ago (at last) and found a key meter. Swapped 48 hours later for a non key meter the size of a packet of cigarettes. No charge.
However if you want a rant on electricity I would love to locate the previous owners of this place. Live wire left next to the loft hatch. 6 sockets wired into the cooker 30amp supply with 2 amp lighting cable. Main oven plugged into an unswitched socket he taped to the wall behind a cupboard. Negative leads on the 30amp cooker supply melted through from an overload. Gas heating wired in reverse with negative and earth wrong way round tripping the RCD, that is once I got the old dead RCD replaced...
Oh and all missed by my surveyor as despite costing £600 they dont do electrics...
£500 pound and 2 days of my time up ladders sorting it all out and we still not found the cooker isolator switch he seems to have tiled over or sorted those sockets yet... grrr...
amazing what a bit of sun does
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) but the result is they've used that credit to wipe out the 'debt' :blob5: :blob5: 