I need to vent!

well, that's it, i give up. we have to pay the entire amount. they wouldn't even waive a little bit of it. looks like i've gotta have a talk with the meter man next time he comes around. i'm gonna be telling him he's gonna be paying for most of it cause he was to lazy to do his job properly.i want to know why the couldn't walk that last 5 metres to the front wall and open up the box and read it. there is no fence and no dog. the bastard was just plain lazy. there's a lesson in this... don't bother working hard or doing things properly because at the end of the day there is someone usually there waiting to screw you over..old saying i use"don't steal the government hates competition."

surely there's more you can do to fight that? cause thats f'd up as , force them to do an actual reading not an estimate or something :S

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Originally Posted by iamirondude

well, that's it, i give up. we have to pay the entire amount. they wouldn't even waive a little bit of it. looks like i've gotta have a talk with the meter man next time he comes around. i'm gonna be telling him he's gonna be paying for most of it cause he was to lazy to do his job properly.i want to know why the couldn't walk that last 5 metres to the front wall and open up the box and read it. there is no fence and no dog. the bastard was just plain lazy. there's a lesson in this... don't bother working hard or doing things properly because at the end of the day there is someone usually there waiting to screw you over..old saying i use"don't steal the government hates competition."

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Man that BS ...you should look at changing company.... i get people calling me to change electrical company all the time! ... call a current affair as well!! does hurt ...cause that bill seem ridiculous man

we only have the 1 company up here in the nth, ergon. here in qld they are still government run.

did you call the ombudsman, do that before you pay, if its anything like the TIO they can force them to check or quantify the bill. call the ombudsman (previous post) and see what they say before you pay the bill, at least then there is a record of the problem with a third party
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Originally Posted by morg176

did you call the ombudsman, do that before you pay, if its anything like the TIO they can force them to check or quantify the bill. call the ombudsman (previous post) and see what they say before you pay the bill, at least then there is a record of the problem with a third party
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Definitely go to The ombudsman. It Queensland it's http://www.ewoq.com.au DON'T PAY IT! have you checked your actual meter reading and compared it to the reading on your bill?

already rang the ombudsman. apparently there is a loophole that they got around, so we're pretty much left holding the bag. i've already had a bloke out to check to make sure the meter wasn't faulty and gone through nearly everything i could do to get it wiped or at least lowered a bit.

Does the reading on your bill match the reading on your meter?

if it does that's incredible. !!maybe someone is siphoning off your electricity somehow, it's a long shot but ...

like everyone else I highly recommend against paying it. I'd be taking it to court.

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Originally Posted by iamirondude

already rang the ombudsman. apparently there is a loophole that they got around,

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They can pull a number out of their proverbial and bill at will, but you have no option of disputing it? :mad::confused:

What's your usual billing for the same period?

If that's a quarterly bill for a standard residential lot, then there must be something seriously amiss... That's more than twenty times my usual bill.