PrePay Electric

[SueEllen]

Yeah, I've given the landlord an ultimatum of get rid of the prepay meter or find some other chump willing to rent it. Well there was a third option of lower the rent by £100pcm.

Fourth option change your key to another supplier i.e. Southern Electric then after a week call them up and get them to change the meter for free.

Apparently EON, NPower and British Gas are rotters when it comes to changing key meters to normal meters as they know that if your not a debtor you will change your electricity supply away from them.

[Sysman]

Someone hasn't been paying the bills. Those meters are bloody expensive.

Indeed bloody expensive, and the electric meter still ticks away if you have turned the whole lot off at the main switch. This is a complete sod if you get a contract far enough away from home that you don't want to come back every weekend.

In fact the things are completely unsuitable for anyone who regularly works away from home.

[Sockpuppet]

Someone hasn't been paying the bills. Those meters are bloody expensive.

Surely you have a good previous history with a utility supplier that you can negotiate with?

Fraid not. Last place where i had a utility bill in my name was 3 years ago.

Since then I've lived in a hotel mostly during the week and lived at the rents for the weekends.

Fourth option change your key to another supplier i.e. Southern Electric then after a week call them up and get them to change the meter for free.

Apparently EON, NPower and British Gas are rotters when it comes to changing key meters to normal meters as they know that if your not a debtor you will change your electricity supply away from them.

Yep. They said that its better. It tolerable. I'm by no means 100% against them just I really don't want to have to pay £50 a time for the electric. I don't want to have to check it and I don't want to have to wonder if my fridge is going to run out of juice while I am away.

Indeed bloody expensive, and the electric meter still ticks away if you have turned the whole lot off at the main switch. This is a complete sod if you get a contract far enough away from home that you don't want to come back every weekend.

In fact the things are completely unsuitable for anyone who regularly works away from home.

Well we have a result. Landlord is taking the electric into his name. I give him +£100 on the deposit and pay the bills as they come through (add to the rent, this is let only so I pay money directly to him).

All in all a result.

[NickFitz]

Fraid not. Last place where i had a utility bill in my name was 3 years ago.

Since then I've lived in a hotel mostly during the week and lived at the rents for the weekends.



Yep. They said that its better. It tolerable. I'm by no means 100% against them just I really don't want to have to pay £50 a time for the electric. I don't want to have to check it and I don't want to have to wonder if my fridge is going to run out of juice while I am away.



Well we have a result. Landlord is taking the electric into his name. I give him +£100 on the deposit and pay the bills as they come through (add to the rent, this is let only so I pay money directly to him).

All in all a result.

Nice area too... considerably better than mine

[Sockpuppet]

Nice area too... considerably better than mine

Plenty more GSPs to pray on

Maybe I can run a Monkey Sanctuary. Kind of like a weekend spa for contractors.

[DiscoStu]

Plenty more GSPs to pray on

Maybe I can run a Monkey Sanctuary. Kind of like a weekend spa for contractors.

There's a Plan B there somewhere