I have had an annual maintenance contract with British Gas for my mother's flat for not less than 20 years.
The flat has recently been renovated for my daughter including installation of a new boiler.
BG wrote to arrange an annual service. I called them and suggested cancelling the visit as the boiler was only two week old.
The agreed.
They arrived this morning.
Was the penguin there too?
They emailed me a survey to fill in. Yeah, okay I'll do it. It was nearly
100% about smart meters. Survey not sent.
LOL....love it..
Yes I get this with meter readers from edf. I say you just read my meter, so can you cancel the one we set up three months back. No problem sir. come the day it was arranged for ting aling, I've come to read the meteer. brian
They still don't realise they've been privatised.
Did they phone beforehand or were they one of the 5% of engineers that don't?
Fill the survey in with as many incorrect details as you can get away with:-)
Anything with "smart" in the title should be avoided like the plague, since they're 'smart' mostly, if not entirely, for the purposes of the manufacturer or service provider.
Ouch. How many new CH systems would 20 years of those premiums get you?
This sort of thing seems very common. Is it worse than it used to be?
NT
I got most of the way through it and then got fed up telling them why I did not want a smart meter.
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