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Review of British Gas

By petercollings on 22nd Oct 2007

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Good Points

None

Bad Points

British Gas has serious problems.

General Comments

This is a long story which I will attempt to shorten. We received a surprise electricity bill for £1500 following having a meter change which we were horrified by. British Gas claimed that estimates were wrong despite me giving them meter readings. This was for a 12 month period. Living with my wife in a mid terrace with an empty house most of the day I was convinced this was wrong. In summary it took us months to fight this bill and get a simple and accurate breakdown of how my bill was calculated and what I owed! I handed all my bills to my accountant who forwarded all correspondence to Energy Watch.
After several months of not paying anything and being very hard nosed, insisting that we wanted a breakdown of the situation on paper before paying, we finally received a simple spreadsheet detailing what we had spent. It came to £300! There is a big difference between £1500 and £300 - and only after receiving several threatening letters and being told we were about to have debt collectors, court summons, electricity cutoff etc. As you can imagine, it is difficult not to feel intimidated and stressed about this.
But they had got it wrong, and it took us over six months to get them to admit it. I bet thousands of customers have actually agreed to pay off rather than going through the hassle of finding out the truth. There is something very wrong and I bet British Gas are making money. I have only just found that my next door neighbour had exactly the same scenario, but instead she elected to pay the amount.

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