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i'm honest to god losing at least two days a month arguing with utility companies at the moment

british gas giving everyone massively OTT estimated readings apart from my dec 2021 reading which was when my contract switched from my old supplier that went under where i had a fixed tariff. this reading has mysteriously been massively underestimated

i cba with this shit any more. I am essentially doing two full days of para-legal work just to stop utlity companies illegally draining hundreds of pounds from my bank account. every month

update: british gas fucked up so bad they've cancelled the bill. more shenanigans to follow I suspect

british gas are now trying to charge me for october to december, which was when i was still with the old supplier

Nuala, with two As

I had a glorious 90 minutes there after I finished writing a letter to a mediator about talktalk but before I saw the email from british gas where I had no outstanding arguing with utility companies to do

You'll all be delighted to know the DWP are chasing me for £20 I don't owe them too

british gas are now trying to bill me oct-jan for £300. this is despite the fact they claimed they can't bill me for dec-jan because I had already settled it with the previous supplier. and obviously before december i was still with that previous supplier. yikes

the mediator for the talktalk issue are asking me to resubmit the complaint on their broken online form (I had posted it in)

It's not even the time cost, it's the attention cost that gets me. I'm convinced that's part the reason these companies either want to phone or if not send an email. There's no ignoring it the same way you can ignore post and it makes it difficult to handle the various disputes on your own terms

british gas have emailed me to acknowledge my complaint and put a similar but wrong street address on the email

@nuala sorry to read you're being harrassed for this, they're a shower of arses

@nuala they added it back in after already trying for oct-dec and failing? omg, this whole situation sounds frustrating and ridiculous

@nuala
Every time I read this stuff I want to slap myself for continuing to live on this stupid island.