*Sonic*

They are saying that now based on usage over the last 12 months, they are increasing my monthly payments by 20 quid a month

At the moment I pay them 33 a month, and in 12 months, I have a debit of 48 quid, how the f**k does 20 quid a month (240 quid for the whole year) equate to 48 quid !!!!


Robbing theiving scum

They did this with my electric bill last year, upped it by 7 quid a month, and I was 110 quid in credit, how the **** did they work that one out

CrisPDuk

It's your job to shop around and keep them on their toes. It's their job to make as much profit from you as possible.
Companies like this rely on consumer complacency. Think about it, 20 million customers paying by direct debit, all nicely £30-£40 in credit every month soon adds up to a tidy bit of interest in their a/c rather than yours

davegtt

Dunno what your moaning about, £53 a month is cheap anyway. Youve had it very good paying just £33 a month.

MattW

Mine just gone up to 120 per month (Gas and Elec )

wez_sti

British Gas want £300 off me for about 4 months gas on a 2 bed flat!?!

Cant be right can it?? Friend in work is paying ~£20 a month for his 3 bed house!?

*Sonic*

33 quid was a rip off, a few years ago I was paying 13 gas, and 11 electric a month, for a similiar size house

it was only when the government changed the law so you could shop around that prices have rocketed and never come back down


Im now paying 90 quid a month for gas and electric, which is daylight robbery in my view

considering thats nearly double what I was paying 2 years ago, and I actually use less of both now

Yes I know I can shop around but they all stitch you up in the long run

edited to add my Girlfriends house is on a meter, and doesnt cost her that much, and she is on a much higher tariff

*Sonic*

Well I just phoned them up and they said its because they have now added the 20% price increase to what I used last year, and added the 48 quid debit, and they came out with that figure

His calculations were actually lower than what the letter says, so he has dropped the amount now to his calculations

bit happier now, but I looked on theenergyshop and it shows that if I switch to powergen I will save nearly 300 quid a year!"!!

stilover

Think you have a gas leak mate !!!!!!

I thought mine was bad. I'm paying about £50-£60 a quarter with B/Gas.
Npower I'm paying about £80-£90 a quarter

I have a 2 bed flat, and I though my bills were far too much for the amount of time I spend in it. Especially the Electric bill.

wez_sti

Thats what i thought! We are actually getting a whole new gas central heating thingy put in (i'm renting) not sure what will happen with this rather large bill though! Giving us an entire new gas system the asking them to pay some of our bill prob wont go down too well!

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

I pay 68 quid and still had to pay 300 quid arrears when I changed, they estimated 450 !

Leccy was in arrears by 167 as well, dont know where it all goes, all I spend my money on is Gas/Electric and various types of insurance, Life, House, 2 cars, gas cover etc.

D.K.1

I don't understand how they can say you're in arrears when they read the meters and set the tarriff

They bill you based on their readings then all of a sudden they say you owe them a fortune

Miss Kinky

we have a 2 bed flat - we pay Atlantic £39 per month for gas AND electric

boxst

Hello

Because a lot of people (me included) pay by direct debit, so they 'guess' at your usage for the year and divide by 12. So you bascially underpay in the winter and overpay in the summer (thereotically).

With all the price increases the 'guess' a year ago isn't going to match your usage so you are in arrears.

Steve

^Qwerty^

My last gas bill was £23. Lecy was £42. (3 bed house)

Was with Powergen for the last 7 years, then switched to London Electricity recently. I was starting to get a bit miffed by the size of my bills, so I started looking online and realised that PG were ripping me of big style.

I tried to ring PG, but after being on hold for just short of 15 minutes, I hung up.

Switched online. The net result of that was three phone calls and two letters from PG asking me not to switch and offering me lower rates to stay with them.

I'm pretty sure a Bank or BS has an advert on TV along the lines of looking after your exisiting customers rather than just chasing new ones.

So I switched anyway.

*Sonic*

They dont always read the meters too, they guess, like my last two meter readings I got cards through the door to say they couldnt access the property to read the meters, yet the meters are outside, and the guy had to walk past the meter cupboards to post the card through my door !!!

D.K.1

They're just lazy

Kuohu

I am unfortunate enough to have British Gas as my supplier for both gas and electricity. My monthly DD for the electric is fine, about £20 which is just me in a 2 bedroomed terrace house. No probs.

But as for the gas.. I just don't use it. I haven't had the heating on all winter, and only had the gas fire on twice. I had a £15/mth DD set up with them, and phoned to have it reduced. I got the feeling that they simply didn't believe my meter readings (showing I had not used the gas), put it down to £12 and rebated the overpayment. A few months later I had to do the same pallaver, an argument about no usage, a reduction to £8 a month, and rebated more money. Now I'm down to a £5/mth DD.

You can spend ages on the phone and they don't have a clue.

AllanB

FFS if you don't like it get your own gas and make your own leccy.

If you've not worked it out we have virtually no gas reserves i the North Sea and we've having to import gas now !


AllanB

D.K.1

*Sonic* makes his own gas, I reckon with what he blasts out of his *** on a daily basis could keep him in heating all winter

AS for the leccy, stick the dogs on a treadmill attached to a generator