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Because the bastards rip you off twice, they over estimate your gas usage, so over charge you on your debit, then they make interest on you money, then take weeks to sort out your correct billing. I pay all my bills over the counter at the Post office, it might appear to cost more than direct debit, but in my opinion DD is a rip off, its far cheaper in the long run to pay cash, than having them messing with your money.

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There's Variable Direct Debit available from BG not sure about the others?

https://www.britishgas.co.uk/HelpAnd...XI=4,CASE=3388

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Is meter reading a thing of the past now in the uk Retlaw?. DD is not a rip off. It is the safest, and the best way, for us oldies to pay our bills. It does not cost anything to DD, and you can cancel at any time. The service provider is the one that is the rip off.

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Not at my bank.

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That should read, that i do not pay fees for DD at my bank.

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nah mate not wi the one i'm doing, if its oer the correct usage i get credit n interest on the money ive paid oer, I pay monthly in advance n its set annually n its still way less than any of the so called big 6,:)

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I have no problems with Direct Debit, every other bill we have is Direct Debit. I just had a similar experience to Retlaw with the energy companies. I still pay the bill online, just when I recive it.

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It might work Ok for you in Aussie Land, but remember this is rip off Britain, yes they still read meters.

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Ours aint been read fer oer 2 yrs, i just submit the readings online monthly, they was gonna send a reader a couple of months ago n i rang to say no-one will be in that day, so they said ok you read it.:D i thought they would give us another date??:confused:

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You can of course be crafty and smooth off your payments across the year by sending in an err? adjusted reading too.

Not that I would ever get involved in such sharp practices.

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Yep but no need to do so far as i'm concerned, pay so much a month in winter n around 25£ less in summer, n the high one is less than it cost me monthly wi SSE.:)

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Why am i not surprised at this!

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check out post 13........it is no surprise to me.....no surprise at all.

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Strange. The President of the European Central Bank is worried about the low inflation in the EU falling into deflation.
One of the reasons he gives is ' a larger fall in energy prices' and 'on the basis of current future prices for energy annual inflation rates are expected to remain at low levels'.
So as our suppliers give one of the reasons for the rises in prices as ' having to buy on the world energy market', are the EU suppliers able to access energy on a different world market? Perhaps a different world?
Of course it couldn't possibly be that our suppliers, mainly owned by the Europeans, are raising our prices to subsidize the EU markets' could it?
However you look at it we're being ripped off!

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The price of energy has fallen in Holland.....their bills have gone down.....why is this?
Might it be because the wholesale price of gas has come down by something like 5%......the energy companies do not tell you this! and cynically increase prices just as we come up to the time when the use of energy is set to rise.
This week we have put our heating on for the first time since the end of May.
The energy companies in this country collude with each other, in effect running a cartel.....which is of course, illegal.