£1000, oh boy... I just hate when people assume I'm an idiot without giving me the chance to prove them right ;-)
I'm going to print that forum and put it in the laundry room, as a little service to the building community On 5/17/07, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > similar things happen in this country, but not always to the scammers' > advantage. My gas supply was switched without my authorisation several > years ago, but for some reason I stopped receiving bills addressed to > me, although some did arrive addressed to a woman I didn't know and > who to my knowledge has never lived here. Eventually the gas supplier > tried to collect on a bill that was close to £1000-. Naturally I > refused to pay - if someone chooses to supply me with free gas that's > up to them. After several increasingly irate calls from their credit > controllers, including offers for me to pay only 50%, I told them I > would pay in full if and only if they could produce a contract to > supply which contained my signature. A few weeks later I received a > letter saying that they had written off the charges. During this > period I also searched the internet to see if other people had had > similar problems, and there pages full of it. > > I get my gas supply from the PDML now. > > -- > Bob > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Fernando > > Sent: 17 May 2007 00:54 > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: Waaay OT: Internet is great. Just for ppl living in Canada > > > > Today, I arrived to my appartment and a couple of gentlemen acted as > > if they were working with the building management, to review that > the > > appartments had proper Hydro protection, they asked for my hydro > bill > > and came with a well prepared speech, trying not to clarify that > they > > were not working for the building administration nor for the Hydro > > company, when asked directly for the name of the company they were > > working for, they finally answer that they were from "Universal > > Powers" I asked them to wait, and a simple goggle search with the > > words "Universal Powers" and "rip off" gave this link > > > > http://www.peoplefield.org/forums/disp_post.cfm/cc.709/o_r.21/ > > clt.13/p.htm > > > > revealing that there's people suing these guys for these sales > > practices and because their energy bill went up after getting this > > service. > > > > I'm not religious but, god bless internet. > > > > Anyway, I felt obligated to tell this in case some of you are the > next > > target of this guys. > > > > Cheerio > > > > Fernando > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
