Huge Electricity Bill - Plot Thickens
Original thread here Thank you everyone for the feedback on that thread. I have some updates and the topic changes a bit so figured I would start a new thread... 1. We have tested every electric...
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midnightsadie wrote:
so now with things calmed down, take them out to dinner and have a good laugh.
Buy the meter reader some new reading glasses...:W
BTW - at my sticks and bricks - two "shocking" (pun) error events over the years:
1. Like the OP's bill - charges way out of line!
Read the meter, WAY lower reading than what they billed for!
Power company did new read - but must *NOT* have believed the revised charges/reading.
Sent out supervisor to verify if *they* were in error.
Yeah - they were.
2. Another time several years later......Huh? - bill dropped to next to nothing - although power was being used.
Checked meter - it was at a "standstill" - no matter what electrical appliance (etc.) was operating.
OK - could have ignored it, but called elect company.
Here come "the brass" (as in two) again to see if I was messing with their equipment.
(Maybe a "growing" operation, or?..:h..)
Nope! *Their* problem...:S...meter had "died" - they replaced it.
(Should have bought *MY* dinner!)
They based "catch-up" on average of past "real" bills.
Now they have "new" electronic (no pun) meters that don't require a meter-reader.
Next problem will be loss of Wi-Fi(?) signal - or hackers, LOL!...:W
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