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British Gas are a shower of shite!!

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RevoltingPeasant · 27/07/2013 23:05

We recently moved house and the previous owners had been with BG. We wanted to switch from them and rang them the day we moved in to say so. They said fine, we'd be moved in 4 weeks. We'd have to pay them for the 4 weeks it took to move us. Fine.

4 weeks later they rang to say wouldn't we consider not moving? No. So, the moving process would start in 4 weeks--from then!! Rang to complain and was told it was fine, it was just their customer retention scheme people, and they'd say anything to keep customers. Er, right Hmm

So today we finally got a bill from them for the short interim time they'd been supplying us--only it was a final notice, saying they were about to send round bailiffs!!

But it was the first bill we'd had from them! Shock

When I rang to ask wtf query it, they said "oh your final bill is [amount £40 higher than the letter said]".

No explanation as to why we received a threatening letter, no written bill for this higher amount. I paid it and took the operator's name and auth code for the payment, but AIBU to complain loudly??

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PrettyKitty1986 · 27/07/2013 23:07

YABU

You should have refused to pay until your complaint was resolved. They now have much less incentive to come to anything..

ClaimedByMe · 27/07/2013 23:11

Is your name on the bill or just owner/occupier? If the later you don't need to pay, we had similar when we moved home 7 years ago!

AudrinaAdare · 27/07/2013 23:14

I have had a fault on my account which means that I can't pay online, input meter readings online, use the cheaper online tariff, access my account and all manner of fuckups since we moved house in MARCH. Yanbu.

Blessyou · 27/07/2013 23:16

YANBU
We had a 'situation' with BG when we moved 10 years ago and I still hold a grudge.
Gas Wankers.

RevoltingPeasant · 27/07/2013 23:21

Pretty you are a much quicker thinker than me! I just have a very good financial history and got spooked by the mention of bailiffs

Claimed, no, it is us.

So was it stupid of me to pay that higher amount? Technically it wasn't the amount specified on the letter so could they try to claim I haven't paid that?!

Wouldn't put anything past them.....

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