Energy Bills
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Oct 2023
12:48pm, 18 Oct 2023
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HappyG(rrr)
um, sorry, maybe didn't explain - Vodafone mobile internet (i.e. a data only, unlimited SIM in a router) £10 plus cost of buying router £50 vs. BT landline based internet (i.e. a router plugged into the phone socket) between £20 -£30 per month, but router usually included.  G
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Oct 2023
12:49pm, 18 Oct 2023
48,158 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
um does that tag um?
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Oct 2023
12:53pm, 18 Oct 2023
7,806 posts
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um
Yes, it does! And I understand now, completely landline free, not just, 'not BT supplied'. |
Oct 2023
1:42pm, 18 Oct 2023
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Hanneke
I am dependent on my landline: no mobile signal here and the wifi runs, unreliably, over said landline.
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Nov 2023
9:48am, 1 Nov 2023
113,591 posts
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Hanneke
Increasingly pissed off with SO energy. I am consuming about £80 a month worth, yet, I am being charged £140, even though I had an agreement that I pay what I consume rather than built up the £500 credit they want you to have. They keep estimating my usage, even though I give them meter readings, that are invariably 25% out, as in too much. Their rationale: that is the average for a household... I am on my own in a tiny home! I don't have a husband and teenagers grrr! The water company does the same!!! It is unfair, especially as that is about half my benefits they are taking and stashing away! I really cannot afford to subsidise the electricity companies 😭😡 |
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Nov 2023
10:27am, 1 Nov 2023
48,281 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
That's stupid Hann. They have your real usage readings, they shouldn't need to use an "average household" (whatever that is - who is average?! Surely deviation from average must be so large as to be a useless way to charge people. Except that of course it suits them to charge more.) Hope you get it sorted. Our oil supplier has just said they have pulled out of market! We've been with them for 6 years. Need to find another now. Wish we could get off oil, but we'd need to virtually tear the house down to be able to heat with electric. G
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Nov 2023
10:30am, 1 Nov 2023
113,600 posts
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Hanneke
I have been hanging on the phone for 45 minutes now and about to give up to destress in the garden 🙄🙄🙄 Totally stupid Happy! |
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Nov 2023
11:11am, 1 Nov 2023
113,601 posts
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Hanneke
Both electricity and water companies simply refuse to accept low consumption of a frugal environmental conscious customer.
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Nov 2023
11:29am, 1 Nov 2023
2,826 posts
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RunningRonnie
We moved here a year ago Happy and wondered if getting off of oil was possible. Spoke to gas company and it would cost a fortune to get gas from the pipeline at the bottom of the road, so looked at Fischer electric boilers and he told his for a house this size we would need to have 3 phase electricity put in! Ended up replacing the boiler and sticking with oil. |
Nov 2023
11:21pm, 1 Nov 2023
30,292 posts
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Rosehip
Similar here, Ronnie. Plan is to move - if we can ever get rid of the boys! and leave the problem to someone else
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