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MoodyBlues

MoodyBlues

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Southern California Edison has had some sort of billing problem--for almost a year. :o

Other than a 22-page bill I received in December, I hadn't received a bill since LAST JUNE. Every attempt to view my bill online, whether in their app or with a browser, failed. I could log in, but trying to view anything related to billing failed.

So yesterday...this arrived: a 66-page bill!

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They thoughtfully included info about the 'climate credit' we get annually and, oh yeah, their request for a rate increase. :rolleyes:
 
Dannydet said:
Wait until you get a huge bill from them.
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DWP [LA city's Department of Water and Power] customers went through that last year. Some people's bills were in the 5-figure range. I'm not sure whatever became of that... I tend to lose interest if I'm not affected.

I forgot to mention: I proactively have been making monthly payments. I just came up with a figure between my usual 'winter' and summer bills, and paid it monthly. I knew that--eventually--SCE would straighten things out, and I didn't want to get slammed with a 12-month bill! :o
 
My tenants never reported a serious water leak and didn’t pay their bill prior to quickly moving with no forwarding address. The water company shut off the water and told me too bad. They couldn’t care less because the owner gets stuck, ha, ha. They would not restart the water and go after the tenant. I had to pay their close to $700 bill if I wanted the water turned on. This is after they told all this to the new tenants who wondered what the problem was. All of this, of course, was in addition to the other steps the deadbeats took to destroy the property when they left. This is a lesson in what you get when you bless a tenant with below market rent. They make a big fool out of you. But not as much as the property manager who stood by while all this was happening. Needless to say, I fired the management company.
 
maire5 said:
They couldn’t care less because the owner gets stuck, ha, ha. They would not restart the water and go after the tenant.
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Where are you? I don't think that would fly here [CA], nor should it!

The debt was Joe Blow's, not yours. They'd have every right to withhold service at Joe Blow's new address until his old bill was paid. But I don't see how they can hold it against you. :thinking:
 
I think it stinks too but supposedly that is the law. This is in CO. The man on the phone was very snotty to me too. His hate for people in CA was evident.
 
maire5 said:
I think it stinks too but supposedly that is the law. This is in CO.
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It doesn't make sense. The service is for the customer, not the property, that's why they can turn the bill over to collections on the customer's credit, and refuse to start service at a new address until the balance is paid off. This is simple logic!
The man on the phone was very snotty to me too.
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WTF?! Why?
His hate for people in CA was evident.
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What's his problem?! :o
 
MoodyBlues said:
Southern California Edison has had some sort of billing problem--for almost a year. :eek:

Other than a 22-page bill I received in December, I hadn't received a bill since LAST JUNE. Every attempt to view my bill online, whether in their app or with a browser, failed. I could log in, but trying to view anything related to billing failed.

So yesterday...this arrived: a 66-page bill!

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They thoughtfully included info about the 'climate credit' we get annually and, oh yeah, their request for a rate increase. :rolleyes:
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Does Southern California Edison give you any discount or other incentive if you do "Go paperless"? Like receiving and paying your electric bill online, instead of them shipping you a load of cut down tree material.
 
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mikedt said:
Does Southern California Edison give you any discount or other incentive if you do "Go paperless"? Like receiving and paying your electric bill online, instead of them shipping you a load of cut down tree material.
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No.

BTW, I pay all my bills online, and have since Bank of America first offered its 'Home Banking' back in the '90s. Shoot, I even pay my gardener that way now! His was the last regular bill I wrote and mailed checks out to. Some of my medical bills, from my little stay in the hospital, insisted on payment by check...I don't know why. :thinking: So quite a few checks were written then. Now my remaining checks just sit quietly in a drawer...

Almost all of my bills exclude a return envelope; once they realized that I always paid electronically, despite receiving paper statements, they stopped including payment envelopes.

As for the trees cut down for paper, I've noted before that it doesn't bother me--a lifelong environmentalist--at all. That's because these trees are grown to be cut down, they're continually replaced with new trees, and are not destroying rainforests or old-growth habitats. They're grown like any other consumer-oriented commodity, on tree farms instead of wheat/spinach/corn/etc. farms.

And, FWIW, I prefer receiving physical bills. I tried paperless billing and strongly disliked it. I like having a physical reminder that a bill's due, and I like to jot down on them miscellaneous info, like the amount paid and the date. That's come in handy a few times over the years.

When I was in the hospital for six months...I never would've seen paperless bills. So, yeah, this works well for me. :)
 
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