previous tenants, electricity bills

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.

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.

any tips on "good" lecky companies in london? starting fresh, might as well see what's out there

though as you can see, actually doing the research myself is a bridge too far

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.

Im always paranoid of that happening and just being completely unaware of it.

any tips on "good" lecky companies in london? starting fresh, might as well see what's out there

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.

Ecotricity, despite not billing me for a year were quite painless once they sorted that out.

yeah i'm happy with ecotricity.

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.

looks like Ecotricity get 18% of their power from nukes but that's still pretty good vs EDF's 90% (!!)

Fucking hell, not even the Hulk got 90% of his power from nukes

EDF = French = Lots of Nuke plants in France

OK, that's it. How do I switch? I want off evil EDF since they've started spamming me. Grrr.