Is It Me Or Is Somebody Playing Silly Beggars? After Moving Into My New Place, I Changed My...

[lardhelmet]

electric meter from a prepaid jobby to a normal one a few weeks ago. So imagine my surprise when I got a letter this morning from my utility supplier enclosing a voucher for £12 which if I take to the post office they will credit to the key I use for the prepaid meter. WHAT?

[Peter Pedant]

No they are behaving normally

I am in dispute with British Gas having paid one bill FIVE times !

OK perhaps I was a little frisky in sending no 3 or 4 or 5 to the wife of the CEO at her home address. what did he do ? Oh, cash it and then did nothing else ! - [you know like find out why I was whining]

[Svejk]

give it to someone with a key-meter & see can they claim it.

[Peter Pedant]

oh, I was gonna say SELL it....
at a discount so it is win-win for all parties

[Svejk]

maybe you'd get a tenner for it. If it's transferable.

[Ken4155]

It will only work with the electricity key to which it has been allocated. Perhaps the people who lived there before you were n the meter, lardhelmet?

[Daffy6543]

It's not transferable, we had one and it says you need ID to cash it in.
Contact your supplier and ask if they can credit it to your account now that you have a different meter.

[lardhelmet]

It can only be credited to my key, which I no longer use because I've changed to a normal meter. As they supplied the new meter, why would the company send me a credit to apply to a meter they know I no longer have?

[gness]

Oh why indeed, Lard......I once tried to explain to The Gas Board (long time ago) that I didn't owe them money.....because I didn't have a gas supply....

In the end they sent a lovely man to cut my supply off....so I let him in and made him tea while he searched for the meter I didn't have......☺

[lardhelmet]

That's wonderful gness. Bet his face was a picture!

[Georgiesmum]

Nice one gness!

[murraymints]

Did you let him go Gness ? Lol

[gness]

We were living in a little council prefab....all electric....god knows how this bill materialised....but I only tried once to explain it to the scary dragon at the gas showroom......I then ignored reminders.

I think more than anything the poor chap was completely flummoxed.... I suppose they get a lot of aggravation when they turn up to cut off a supply.... to come across a smiling face...and being offered a cuppa was different.....

I let him go.......he was very short and baldy.......and ancient....all of forty to my twenty two.........☺

Thank you for best answer, Lard....x