Another British Gas Fun Show
Final year of uni and the gas bill comes in.

600 quid. For the last quarter.

Now, that quarter was the months July-September, where:

- Nobody was in the house
- The central heating was being re-furbished
- We had an electric cooker and fire.

How could this be? Me being a bit wise, realised something.

On the 5 digit meter reading, the goons living in the house previously appeared to have misread the meter, and put a 5 in the first digit, instead of a 6, hence the massive cost.

Now, I've also got an Engineering degree with a specialism in Thermodynamics, so when it comes to burning fuels, I know my stuff.

All of this was of no use to British Gas, who flatly refused to accept that there was no way we could not have used 600 quid's worth of gas simply because...

'Our meter readings suggest otherwise'.

I even faxed over energy calculations to prove them wrong. And yet again...

'Our meter readings suggest otherwise'.

Even when I suggested doing a week's worth of readings to show I was being legit I got the response...

'Our meter readings suggest otherwise'.

So, we didn't pay. British Gas threatened all sorts (one call from them suggested they were in the process of 'sending the heavies round'), but nothing happened.

Nothing apart from from our landlord getting saddled with a court appearance, as the bill was in the name of 'The Occupier' and we'd moved out.

The landlord was a twat anyway.
(scentless_apprentice takes two bottles into the shower!, Fri 16 Feb 2007, 16:56, Reply)