so they've cut the discount from about 2/3 to 1/3 looks like - over the years.
When I think of all the utility companies which have caused me stress, hassle and consumed endless time with their incompetence over the years, I‘ve clearly missed a trick in not following your approach. I read some of your posts earlier in the thread and thought to myself you’d not get anywhere with it, but I’m happy to admit I was wrong! Well doneI got an e-mail from the ombudsman this morning, inviting me to comment on OVO's reply by Sat 11th May, I've made two points.
1- Of course the bills need to be re-issued, but OVO doesn't give any time frame for doing that, despite the fact that it should have been done weeks ago, and hasn't even been done that at this stage, which is causing me further stress. I assume it would be reasonable that this should now be done in a maximum of 2 additional working days.
2 - As you are aware I suggested compensation at £150 in view of the amount of time I've spent on this and the stress it has caused me, so I don't think their offer of just £100 is reasonable. As you are also aware they have continued causing me further problems and stress since I filed my complaint, including breaking pervious promises about not putting up my DD and still not re-issuing bills, so I would ask you to consider a reasonable amount now should be £200.
Well, if you don't ask, you don't get.
When I think of all the utility companies which have caused me stress, hassle and consumed endless time with their incompetence over the years, I‘ve clearly missed a trick in not following your approach. I read some of your posts earlier in the thread and thought to myself you’d not get anywhere with it, but I’m happy to admit I was wrong! Well done
Hope you can get an extra £100 out of it
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Does this subsidy apply to councils?Whilst people a looking around for cheaper suppliers the rather well off may be scamming it:
MPs and lords rake in energy subsidies as millions struggle
International trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan and members of the landed gentry are among those to benefit
I got an e-mail from the ombudsman this morning, inviting me to comment on OVO's reply by Sat 11th May, I've made two points.
1- Of course the bills need to be re-issued, but OVO doesn't give any time frame for doing that, despite the fact that it should have been done weeks ago, and hasn't even been done that at this stage, which is causing me further stress. I assume it would be reasonable that this should now be done in a maximum of 2 additional working days.
2 - As you are aware I suggested compensation at £150 in view of the amount of time I've spent on this and the stress it has caused me, so I don't think their offer of just £100 is reasonable. As you are also aware they have continued causing me further problems and stress since I filed my complaint, including breaking pervious promises about not putting up my DD and still not re-issuing bills, so I would ask you to consider a reasonable amount now should be £200.
Well, if you don't ask, you don't get.
They really are just trying to claw in as much money as possible, aren’t they?OVO had up to yesterday to respond to my most recent comments, they didn't, so at midnight the ombudsman's system automatically updated the status of my complaint from 'Prepare Case' to the 'Investigate' stage, which shouldn't take longer than 2 weeks before their decision is made. That will be around 5 months since I first contacted OVO, but at least I am getting there.
Meanwhile OVO's glue sniffing department has increased their estimate of usage during June from just over 500kwh on the 8th, to almost 600kwh today, if this carries on, I should be on well over 1000kwh by the end of the month!
My actual usage during June so far is under 60kwh, so their estimate is basically 10 times what I am actually using.
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Hah! you laughed at me and my checking through my 'leccy usage - who's laughing now though??OVO's glue sniffers now have me on 596kwh so far this month, they are going to have to add an extra line to their graph tomorrow to cope with my estimated usage.
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OVO's glue sniffers now have me on 596kwh so far this month, they are going to have to add an extra line to their graph tomorrow to cope with my estimated usage.
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Cost of living crisis not such a big worry where you are?
Always been tough at the bottom and the migrant workers caught up in the lockdowns in Shanghai will be really struggling, but in a village like ours local families have houses they were allocated by the collective and most still plant a fair amount of veg so even if there's not much cash income coming in the pressures are relatively low so long as no-one gets sick. There is also a medical insurance scheme but it's not great for anything major. Those families that have a white collar worker or two are all knocking down their old single storey courtyard compounds like ours and building three floor villas, so clearly not too hard up.
Are you sure no one's plugged in to mine bitcoin and trying to make up the price shortfall?
Are you sure no one's plugged in to mine bitcoin and trying to make up the price shortfall?
The government here, and in Portugal have a so-called iberian exemption which means prices are capped. Although the cost is still high it has come down by quite a chunk lately.
Yep! ours are "capped" in the UK as well - fuck-knows-how-many-% increase in April and a similar massive increase in . . . October(?) - also "capped"
