In Aus I'm pretty sure there's a law that if the company hasnt got its shit together and billed you, all debts after 6 months have to be waived. Its happened to me before once. 18 months of back charges from no invoices, and I only ended up paying 6. Suited me!
Dont know how that applies in the UK tho.
― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Thursday, 24 June 2010 11:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I really despise bailiff companies - a number of letters have turned up for a previous tenant about every six months, from the same damned firm of bailiffs, and it's like they rounded up all the Londoners suffering from adult aftereffects of foetal alcohol syndrome and employed them in this one office. Me: no, the person no longer lives there and funnily enough, I do not have time to photocopy my bills to send to you to prove my own residence, but if you send a bailiff to my home when I have told you your debtor is not here and referred you to my landord's office to verify, I will rip his nuts off.
― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Thursday, 24 June 2010 11:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Addresses can have bad credit, but you can absolve yourself of blame with credit agencies by telling them you aren't the person at the address who racked up all the debt.
― ailsa, Thursday, 24 June 2010 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
any tips on "good" lecky companies in london? starting fresh, might as well see what's out there
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 24 June 2010 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
though as you can see, actually doing the research myself is a bridge too far
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 24 June 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I once moved out of a place, and asked for the final bill (telephone, in this case). Received one for the flat above, notified them of their mistake, and... nothing.
Eventually I received a letter from debt collectors and they'd put me down on a credit blacklist, and I couldn't sign up for a bunch of stuff (which was no big deal). I contacted them and paid the bill, but they didn't remove the black mark. I think it's gone now, after five or seven years.
― A Picture Where Dorian's Gay (S-), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Im always paranoid of that happening and just being completely unaware of it.
― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Friday, 25 June 2010 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know which ones are 'good', but my experience with switching from EDF was frustrating. They kept re-taking over the electricity supply, so every few months we'd randomly get bills from EDF, have to cancel the account again, and re-sign up with our other supplier. After about 8 months and many phone calls they stopped.
― salsa shark, Saturday, 26 June 2010 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Ecotricity, despite not billing me for a year were quite painless once they sorted that out.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 26 June 2010 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i'm happy with ecotricity.
― postcards from the (ledge), Saturday, 26 June 2010 11:29 (thirteen years ago) link
weird about EDF not "letting go". they seem dodgy in general what with all the nukes. i'd rather not use them. will check out the propagandishly-named ecotricity.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
looks like Ecotricity get 18% of their power from nukes but that's still pretty good vs EDF's 90% (!!)
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Fucking hell, not even the Hulk got 90% of his power from nukes
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
EDF = French = Lots of Nuke plants in France
― Jarlrmai, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
OK, that's it. How do I switch? I want off evil EDF since they've started spamming me. Grrr.
― OCD Soundsystem (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link