Npower - advice needed

[Vaati]

Some meters are not easy to read. Mine is a clock dial one. Rather than the easy numbers. When I asked N-Power how you read the dial ones, they wouldn't tell me. Which made it impossible for me to submit a reading without someone coming out to read it.

 

My new supplier provided me with verbal instructions and a leaflet how to read the dial one.

[bhunaboy]

Npower gave me an estimated bill and never contacted me for readings. I couldn't find my gas meter and neither could they when they came to do a service. Every time I've given them readings, they have been ignored.

[Gleadly]

Some meters are not easy to read. Mine is a clock dial one. Rather than the easy numbers. When I asked N-Power how you read the dial ones, they wouldn't tell me. Which made it impossible for me to submit a reading without someone coming out to read it.

 

My new supplier provided me with verbal instructions and a leaflet how to read the dial one.

 

It's ages since I've seen one of these.

You should see 6 clocks (i think)

They are read separately, clockwise then anticlockwise etc.

 

So, if the hand on the first one it between 5 and 6 then the number is 5.

The numbers are reversed on the next clock, but you still take the lower number.

The last clock, to the right, may be a different colour so that can be ignored.

It's usually the decimal place reading.

 

Of course, you meter may be different from my old meter (not in Sheffield)

 

Npower gave me an estimated bill and never contacted me for readings. I couldn't find my gas meter and neither could they when they came to do a service. Every time I've given them readings, they have been ignored.

 

Are you sure you have gas???

Edited September 12, 2013 by Gleadly

[Worried mum]

N power have taken £1600 out of my sons bank and credited him with £1600 credit on his gas meter. He found this out by chance. This was his rent money for the next few months. This is the second time they have done something similar. It is being investigated but it takes 28 days and his rent is now overdue. His home is now under threat. OFCOM can't do anything till the 28 working days are up. My son is at his wits end and I cannot afford to pay his rent for him. Why is this company still unable to keep ripping people off this way.

[Bob Arctor]

There is an energy ombudsman who will adjudicate. You may need to exhaust Npower's complaints procedure first. I would give up on ordinary contact now and just focus on formal complaints. I hope you have kept details of dates and times of these conversations and who they were with. Npower are a shambles and prove that market forces don't work to improve standards, if that were true they'd have gone bust years ago.

[999tigger]

N power have taken £1600 out of my sons bank and credited him with £1600 credit on his gas meter. He found this out by chance. This was his rent money for the next few months. This is the second time they have done something similar. It is being investigated but it takes 28 days and his rent is now overdue. His home is now under threat. OFCOM can't do anything till the 28 working days are up. My son is at his wits end and I cannot afford to pay his rent for him. Why is this company still unable to keep ripping people off this way.

 

Go and see CAB or the law centre to see of they cna push it any further. In the meantime go off direct debit and back to standard pay until you get reassyrance from them they wont do it again.