nPower or electrical minded lol?

Walkerie · 3 Jan 2010 at 22:33

Went a couple of hours ago to get some electric on our pre payment stick shoved a fiver on it came home said token accepted but never credited us, just been to another shop and payed a tenner this time its work im guessing i can get the fiver reimbursed but how does the happen exactly?

TheKnat · 3 Jan 2010 at 22:36

Don't these pre-payment meters have an emergency credit feature ? I'm pretty sure when you go into this pool of credit, the next payment you put into the meter pays off this borrowed credit.

Mucky_Pup · 3 Jan 2010 at 22:57

TheKnat said:
Don't these pre-payment meters have an emergency credit feature ? I'm pretty sure when you go into this pool of credit, the next payment you put into the meter pays off this borrowed credit.

Mine does.

arknor · 3 Jan 2010 at 23:12

TheKnat said:
Don't these pre-payment meters have an emergency credit feature ? I'm pretty sure when you go into this pool of credit, the next payment you put into the meter pays off this borrowed credit.

yea we have an electric meter just for the heating which allows us to go -3.00 if you use the emergency.

something nice happened about 6 months ago , the machine at the local shop to charge our machine was broke and we got a guy to come and and use a swipe card that added £5 more emergency onto the machine.

-3.00 + -5.00 = -8.00

but guess what

our meter has been frozen on -6.92 for 6months

free heating ***! i used to spend 15 quid a week on heating before the meter got stuck now i dont worry and just blast the heating whenever.

crazyDAJT · 3 Jan 2010 at 23:51

arknor said:
but guess what our meter has been frozen on -6.92 for 6months

you know at some point they are going to twig and you will be left with a bill of a few £100's.

PhillyDee · 3 Jan 2010 at 23:57

Yeah, they do actually read the meters too. . . . And will bill you for the discrepancy!

MikeHunt79 · 4 Jan 2010 at 00:31

PhillyDee said:
Yeah, they do actually read the meters too. . . . And will bill you for the discrepancy!

Good job you mentioned this, as I was going to suggest that he starts growing some... err... plants in his loft.

sanaxe1 · 4 Jan 2010 at 00:34

Just wondering why there's a lol in the title?

arknor · 5 Jan 2010 at 18:31

PhillyDee said:
Yeah, they do actually read the meters too. . . . And will bill you for the discrepancy!

in 7 years no one has been around to read the meter since we moved in.

its for heating only anyway and on a card i'd be suprised if it keeps track of how much has been used.

i once lost the card and had a bloke come around to give us a new one and he just reset the machine so could always just lose another