Gas credit
10 August 2021 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeThe gas company sent me a confusing letter informing me that as I was "using more energy" I "need to pay a bit more each month", since I had managed to reduce my massive credit with them by the grand total of £40 in six months.
It turned out that immediately after sending me a letter asking me for more money while telling me that I had a credit balance of almost £400, they had silently credited my bank account with a refund of three hundred. Which makes sense, as theoretically I am now earning interest on my own money (as if!) instead of them sitting on it indefinitely, and presumably makes their accounting easier by bringing the sums involved back into a more normal range.
The letter would have made a lot more sense if they had mentioned that they wanted to refund me the money, though!
(I'm somewhat concerned by the figure telling me that I used twice as much gas in the last six months as during the same period the previous year, however -- I don't think I've been doing that much more cooking, or taking vastly more baths! I wonder if it was the episode during which the central heating, which is normally off, got stuck on at full blast for twelve hours or so?)
I still haven't mended those pyjamas, which I'm going to end up regretting imminently....
It turned out that immediately after sending me a letter asking me for more money while telling me that I had a credit balance of almost £400, they had silently credited my bank account with a refund of three hundred. Which makes sense, as theoretically I am now earning interest on my own money (as if!) instead of them sitting on it indefinitely, and presumably makes their accounting easier by bringing the sums involved back into a more normal range.
The letter would have made a lot more sense if they had mentioned that they wanted to refund me the money, though!
(I'm somewhat concerned by the figure telling me that I used twice as much gas in the last six months as during the same period the previous year, however -- I don't think I've been doing that much more cooking, or taking vastly more baths! I wonder if it was the episode during which the central heating, which is normally off, got stuck on at full blast for twelve hours or so?)
I still haven't mended those pyjamas, which I'm going to end up regretting imminently....