Make a donation
« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2 3   Go Down

Author Topic: E.o.n you must be jokeing  (Read 6011 times)

Offline Andy

  • Admin
  • Just look at my post count
  • *
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 39
  • -Receive: 443
  • Posts: 10929
    • Email
E.o.n you must be jokeing
« on: October 27, 2011, 07:37:41 pm »
they are saying that the next payment will go from £175 a month to a estimated £320 a month :fighting:no way i use £175 a month never mind what they want a month
« Last Edit: October 27, 2011, 07:40:13 pm by maxitrol »
Logged

Offline skard

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 5
  • -Receive: 245
  • Posts: 2674
  • My Ride: http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,62636
Re: E.o.n you must be jokeing
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2011, 07:58:41 pm »
That's mental...have you been giving them meter readings or are they going off estimates all the time?

When I moved into this house a few years ago I couldn't believe my DD amount, rang up EDF with a meter reading and they adjusted it - found I was £450 in credit!
Logged
Used to have Edition 30 - number 009 and a GT TDI 140.
Now have an S4 B8 Avant (stage 2)

Offline Andy

  • Admin
  • Just look at my post count
  • *
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 39
  • -Receive: 443
  • Posts: 10929
    • Email
Re: E.o.n you must be jokeing
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2011, 08:03:03 pm »
been estimates i think as i have never given them a meter reading
Logged

Offline ub7rm

  • Won't Shut up.
  • *****
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 35
  • -Receive: 43
  • Posts: 807
Re: E.o.n you must be jokeing
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2011, 08:17:37 pm »
I pay £40 a month for a 150 sq/m house.  Heating is oil but cooker and hob is electric and the previous owner had a fetish for those halogen lights all over the place.  The wife isn't shy with the tumble drier either.  Deffo something wrong there...
Logged
Sepang Blue S4 BE Avant

Offline rich83

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 165
  • -Receive: 802
  • Posts: 13444
    • MK5 Golf GTI
  • My Ride: https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=usu8aajctefctjp2kg2i24mnf4&/topic,19740.0.html
Re: E.o.n you must be jokeing
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2011, 08:23:56 pm »
They are canuuuuuuts mate. Buy a log burner or install a coal fire!
Logged

Offline skard

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 5
  • -Receive: 245
  • Posts: 2674
  • My Ride: http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,62636
Re: E.o.n you must be jokeing
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2011, 08:25:47 pm »
Quote from: maxitrol on October 27, 2011, 08:03:03 pm
been estimates i think as i have never given them a meter reading

In that case you might find by taking readings and ringing them up with them they may be able to adjust it to something normal! Usually they'll send someone out to verify it.  :happy2:

They might have you down as using twice as much as what you actually use.
Logged
Used to have Edition 30 - number 009 and a GT TDI 140.
Now have an S4 B8 Avant (stage 2)

Offline Andy

  • Admin
  • Just look at my post count
  • *
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 39
  • -Receive: 443
  • Posts: 10929
    • Email
Re: E.o.n you must be jokeing
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2011, 08:26:08 pm »
Quote from: richwig83 on October 27, 2011, 08:23:56 pm
They are canuuuuuuts mate. Buy a log burner or install a coal fire!
get the family some woolly jumpers :laugh:
Logged

Offline rich83

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 165
  • -Receive: 802
  • Posts: 13444
    • MK5 Golf GTI
  • My Ride: https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=usu8aajctefctjp2kg2i24mnf4&/topic,19740.0.html
Re: E.o.n you must be jokeing
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2011, 08:29:20 pm »
Absolutely.... I hate the energy company monopoly just as much as petrol price monopoly. Bring back state energy services.
Logged

Offline JoeDarKa

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 57
  • -Receive: 73
  • Posts: 3188
Re: E.o.n you must be jokeing
« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2011, 08:41:03 pm »
£80 a month for gas and electric i pay with British Gas!
Logged


GT Sport - Reflex Silver 2.0 TDI My Build

Offline LouCyffer

  • Won't Shut up.
  • *****
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 36
  • -Receive: 63
  • Posts: 875
Re: E.o.n you must be jokeing
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2011, 08:51:29 pm »
Scottish power recently tried this stunt with me. Wrote & said our DD was going from £93 a month for dual, to £124 'to account for your usage'. As my account was £95 in credit at this time, I emailed them and told them that I would instruct my bank to block any rise in my DD amount. Until such time as my account was in debit, they could get stuffed.

Got an email next day to say my 'account had been reviewed and no rise was necessary'.

I wonder how many people dont challenge it. And how many accounts are in credit at any one time. How much of our money that they havent earned are they hanging on to? The Bar Stewards aren't getting mine without a fight. Tell 'em you told your bank to block any rise in your DD. They can't take it from your account without your agreement (direct debit guarentee) :evilgrin:
Logged
Black 2008 5 door GTI. Leather, DSG, ipod prep, 18" Monzas. Retrofitted: Cruise, PDC, RNS510, 729 Skoda Bluetooth (thanks SteveP), MFSW buttons (thanks MortyGTTDi), Armrest & vents, covered cupholder, Highline (thanks Kalu), Polar FIS+ (thanks Richn), Reversing camera (thanks MortyGTTDi)

Offline Eccie

  • Won't Shut up.
  • *****
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 7
  • -Receive: 25
  • Posts: 523
Re: E.o.n you must be jokeing
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2011, 09:36:30 pm »
Quote from: richwig83 on October 27, 2011, 08:23:56 pm
They are canuuuuuuts mate. Buy a log burner or install a coal fire!

Logs are cheap I get through £140 per year - coal is bloody expensive but then I buy that by the bag due to a lack of storage - 6 x bags = £40, burnt a lot last winter with it being so bloody cold for so long
Logged


Gone - Candy White MK5 Golf GTI (you never really forget your first true love...!)
MK7 Candy White GTI pp - you can never have enough eye candy

Offline Tfsi_Mike

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 241
  • -Receive: 309
  • Posts: 10222
  • Go Large or Go Home
    • Tfsi Mikes Money Pit AKS / TTE / RTech St2+ Cupra
  • My Ride: http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,32721.msg402587.html#msg402587
Re: E.o.n you must be jokeing
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2011, 09:40:42 pm »

£68 p/month I pay for gas electric and water.  Uk Utility companies are robbing w4nkers it's unreal. They are paying the cheapest price for the energy and charging the most expensive its ever been !   :fighting: :fighting: :fighting:

Going to criplle me moving to the Uk
Logged

Offline gtipirelli

  • Always Involved
  • ****
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 0
  • -Receive: 7
  • Posts: 201
  • Golf GTi Pirelli
    • Email
Re: E.o.n you must be jokeing
« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2011, 10:01:58 pm »
Hopefully some friendly advice  :happy2:

Whenever you can, supply a meter reading or let the meter reader in to read it.
Pay by DD
Take your elec and gas from the same supplier
And
Apply for one of their online tariffs like British gas web saver

Don't forget that only a couple of the companies are actually British and the foreign ones such as edf are
Owned by their home states like France.

British gas are trying to compete with state owned companies with very little transparency in how they
Are funded and what profit they make.

The utility companies pay the highest corporation tax of all the FTSE companies and is as high as
80%.

British gas also make about £10 profit per customer per quarter

The reason the profits look big is because they have 17 million customers !!!!

Yes I do work for British gas if you had not guessed
Logged
Golf GTi Pirelli - Diamond Black, 5 Door - SOLD
now 718 Cayman S PDK

Offline Tfsi_Mike

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 241
  • -Receive: 309
  • Posts: 10222
  • Go Large or Go Home
    • Tfsi Mikes Money Pit AKS / TTE / RTech St2+ Cupra
  • My Ride: http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,32721.msg402587.html#msg402587
Re: E.o.n you must be jokeing
« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2011, 10:10:09 pm »
Quote from: gtipirelli on October 27, 2011, 10:01:58 pm
Hopefully some friendly advice  :happy2:

Whenever you can, supply a meter reading or let the meter reader in to read it.
Pay by DD
Take your elec and gas from the same supplier
And
Apply for one of their online tariffs like British gas web saver

Don't forget that only a couple of the companies are actually British and the foreign ones such as edf are
Owned by their home states like France.

British gas are trying to compete with state owned companies with very little transparency in how they
Are funded and what profit they make.

The utility companies pay the highest corporation tax of all the FTSE companies and is as high as
80%.

British gas also make about £10 profit per customer per quarter

The reason the profits look big is because they have 17 million customers !!!!

Yes I do work for British gas if you had not guessed     :fighting: :fighting: :fighting: :fighting: :fighting: :fighting:

P.s only joking  :P
Logged

Offline monte

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 116
  • -Receive: 134
  • Posts: 2747
  • Global Ruler
    • Deep-Shine Detail. Detailing-Wrapping-Tints. Lincoln.
  • My Ride: http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,67679.0.html
Re: E.o.n you must be jokeing
« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2011, 11:54:43 pm »
I left EON in May for NPower. Lots of people said I was crazy to leave EON, but with NPower I got the rates fixed for 1yr. So when then said the bills were gonna rise I was well happy.
I pay £50 a month DD for both Gas and Electric and up to press I am £48 in credit.  :star:

This will even out over winter no doubt.  :wink:
Logged
Pages: [1] 2 3   Go Up
« previous next »