powerman1

Wife has just recieved a electric bill for her small hairdressers(her and a Junior who may have to go now))and the rate as gone up for her electric from 5.84 pence per KWh to 17.29 per KWh and a daily charge of 92.77 pence per day hence her bill has gone from Approx £50 per month to over £150 a month that equats to £1800 per year just for electric..If any one from British gas is is on here tell me how you can justify this you thieving c***s
over 300% increase

DCI Gene Hunt

Gritish Bass .......... you've answered your own question "Thieving c**ts"

Sub97

Why not change suppliers then?

pippyrips

could be a number of things:

1. you may have been running on domestic tarrifs and have crossed the useage threshold to business tarriffs
2. you may have been under charged in the past due to to being on the wrong rates
3. Could be based on estimated reads - make sure you send one in

powerman1

just done it and have reduced the bill by £75 per month with scottish power.What pi55ed me off is the fact that they have done this without any notification and now the bill has been issued and as to be paid

unclebuck

By the way - they are introducing additional fines for late payment. 28 days.

I can't believe anyone uses them.

pwhittle

Small businesses need to be wary of being switch without their knowledge too, as they don't have the legal protection that households do (according to watchdog!)

D.K.1

Prices have rocketed recently, it's verging on the rediculous!

*Sonic*

I had a problem recently whereby they increased my direct debit to more than double

They didnt actually tell me either until the 2nd payment came out of my account as im on bi yearly statements now (I think)

I certainly never got any notification of this, and I was informed that by law they are suppsed to notify you first

just switched suppliers now (as they doubled my gas last year)

Lydia72

I *think* Centrica (B.G.'s parent company) make most of their profits from power generation and industrial gas use, what they can rip off from householders and small businesses is probably just a bonus to them.

vava voom

iTrader: (6)

Sounds like to me your contract finished and you was then placed on deemed rates, the prices quoted are not prices which BGB are offering as they are way too high. I imagine you need to tell the whole story mate

powerman1

Been with BG for 8 years and have never entered into any contract that had a finish date..whole story