h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Eventually it's worth to stand the pain of peer review.

Mind you, you get a lot more attention in Peer Review than you do on the Front Page, which can be a bit of a letdown.

B

That's why I am campaigning for myself.

Hati!

Well done Hati!

We have a damp problem. I am very very cross. This flat was built less than five years ago. ing . A pair of Scrumph's shoes and my velvet jacket have gone very mouldy.

Must make coffee. Must calm down. Must find strepsils. Must - not - swear - any - more - argh...

13 Candles lit for Hati...

[TIM]

Well done, Hati As a Dane, I'm a inclined to be a little disappointed that the Danish flag legend disappeared in the edited version - but oh, well... As good an occasion for as I know

British Gas AGAIN that they have no right to charge me for electicity.
they can chrge you ll they like, wether they are paid or not is a different matter.

at mo previous tennents of my abode skipped owing 200, estimated readings for past 18 months, you wont persaude them, taken me four months so far.

Didn't DNA write a computer game along these lines?

Ltp, they really are not entitled to charge me for electicity. NPower are, and do, and I payt them, but British Gas aren't.

However, every six months or so they decide that they are entitled to charge me, and send me bills for a couple of hundred quid. Then I phone up, and they say "ooops, sorry, no, you are quite right madam, we aren't entitled to charge you, it won't happen again". And I say "yeah, right". And six months later it does.

I think I am going to have to write formal letters to OfPower, or whoever the ombudsman is, and to the Customer Services departments of the company concerned.

I want audits!

B

you can use me as not being local maladministration

as oppossed to missadministration(no not the telephone operator in delhi)
but the idiot that pressed the button that generated the letter that..this is fun.
my tracking no is <<#35718-58251#>>, ooh what a big list

ps you can use it when you write to watchdog ect as i have sent them details.

*completely ignores the backlog*

British Gas are evil. They're incompetent too.

KerrAvon, you may ignore the backlog, but don't say so in my presence!! At least you are responding to previous comments. Remember, your remark could be taken as rude by those who posted earlier, because you are effectively saying their comments aren't worth looking at.



Hootoo is being crazy. I couldn't log in, but I was able to go to my PS by direct link and found myself present. Then I posted and was logged out until I went to the front page to look at Hati's article. There I found myself logged in again. I sure hope this posts!

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Ach, our comments really aren't worth looking at Lil. Just random burblings. I thought we had backlog exemption coupons and such, anyway?

I may have a result!

After making these phone calls every six months for the last two years, and asking them to initiate an enquiry each time, someone at British Gas finally volunteered to do just that without being asked. Also I have contacted EnergyWatch, and given them the details. If British Gas don't get back to me within the week, then I can set EnergyWatch on them, apparently.

The two things that annoy me are (1) it makes it much trickier to rent the place out, imagine having to say to tenants "ignore any electricity bills from British Gas" and (2) it is just too bloody risky to change suppliers right now to get cheaper deals. The waters are muddy enough as it is.

Oh. And I am in an entirely separate discussion with NPower, asking them to audit the account on the meter that is mine. Partly as a result of all this crap, and partly as a result of entirely separate crap, the meter readings were subject to randomisation, with a consequent wierdness in how much I've been billed.

Ben
*lighting candles, and putting out lights*

Yea Hati!

Utility companies are always evil. And staffed by incompetents. We are still being billed monthly for an outside light that was on our parking lot - where a building now stands. I get the bill, call the electric company, explain the situation, (the pole was taken down last March!)and am promised that if I will pay the charges one more time, a credit will be issued. Then the next bill comes in and it's still there. It's only $8.95 a month, but that will buy a trade paperback for my YA readers or a board book for my wee tykes. And it's ripping off the taxpayers.

Sorry Lil- on the plus side, at least I was being honest.

Last time the gas man wanted to read our meter I told him he could, but only if he moved the wardrobe, as I had a busted rib. He sulked off muttering something about estimated readings. Definite result, one feels.

B have a key meter fitted, or look into it, also solar panels are cheap and cost efficent ,(grants available some areas) re errors' http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/F94020?thread=418287&date=20041115124109 my gauge to whats a happening, runs in phases of the moon.

I just started a convo in my journal about F. In future I'll put updates there.