| mazda3 fanatic |
Heating a home nowadays is getting more and more expensive. Many pay the variable rate that is charged and some go with the fixed rate contracts.
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| flatboy |
my moms contract is up the February. I was a 5 year and I think it was something like 4?? something a jigagoule. So it was a good deal then. Now they are saying like 9 something, though I don't rember what she said.
It worked out good for her except they contacted her on numerous occations and asked her to back out of the contract as they were loosing money on the deal. What the FUCK! Fuck'n prick jobs actually had the nerve to say that! Now this wasn't just once that they called her to get out of it, and they also used a major guilt trip each time they call - fuck'n baglicker IMO. Like her saving a couple dollars was goina put them in the hole? Thats what the contract was for, right?
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| ChromeDragon |
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Originally posted by flatboy
my moms contract is up the February. I was a 5 year and I think it was something like 4?? something a jigagoule. So it was a good deal then. Now they are saying like 9 something, though I don't rember what she said.
It worked out good for her except they contacted her on numerous occations and asked her to back out of the contract as they were loosing money on the deal. What the FUCK! Fuck'n prick jobs actually had the nerve to say that! Now this wasn't just once that they called her to get out of it, and they also used a major guilt trip each time they call - fuck'n baglicker IMO. Like her saving a couple dollars was goina put them in the hole? Thats what the contract was for, right?
shayne
Take her saving $30-40 a month and multiply that by the tens of thousands under the contract ... and yeah, it will put them in the hole. But that's the risk they took on their end, deal with it. |
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| mazda3 fanatic |
| I think the latest contract offering was close to $10 / energy unit... With energy prices expected to shoot up insanely, I wonder if this would become a good deal in a year or two year's time? |
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| BigTrucker |
Stay FAR away from Direct Energy. They are a bunch of scam artists.
They claimed I signed up for a 5 year fixed plan with them and doubled my rates because thats what the fixed rates were. I then asked them if they could provide me with the contract I signed so I can see my signature or a recording of the phone call and they said "They will mail it out to me". That was 2 months ago and now since we cancelled with them they are trying to make me pay them over $800 in early cancellation fees.
Long story short, if you want a contract, deal with Enmax. They have a no hassle fixed rate program that you can cancel anytime without any fees.
Plus there has been many stories about Direct Enegery screwing people on the Global trouble shooter so its not an isolated incident. |
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| flatboy |
I like it when they come to your door and ask to see your gas bill, "go fuck yourself" I said. Wow the look on the guys face was a uneasy one.
These guys can not be trusted!
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| RSready |
| They came around door-to-door asking people to sign contracts this fall. They came to my house twice. Both times I asked them to explain the benefits to me and both times they hand drew a hacked up graph on the back of my bill to try to explain it. I compared them and they looked nothing the same. Obviously nowhere near to scale. If this really was beneficial I'm sure they would have real graphs or literature proving that you would save money... Something just was telling me a gas company wouldn't send out a fleet of workers to scour the city looking for customers they could take less money from. |
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| sparkycivic |
i signed up with them last year, just so they would get out of my living room, this year, they have returned like 4 TIMES and they wouldn't believe my wife when she said that we are already on their scam deal. they still insisted to see my heating bill. bunch of fuck-tards!
Sure, by the last half of the contract I'll be paying less than the going rate, but I'll have paid it all forward by starting out at the higher price anyway! I gain nothing in the end. I am actually convinced that they do this just to get the cancellation fees from the unhappy customers after a couple of years pf paying the higher rates. |
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| j5tar |
| Fuck them, just cancel it but don't pay them. Worked for me. |
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| shortie |
urgh.. they are dirty pirate hookers to me too :mad:
bunch-a crooks |
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| GOT BOOST |
never dealt with them. If the proposal is satisfactory I would consider a fixed rate term. However I pay more for BS "fixed charges" from may to Sept than I do in actual gas usage. :mad:
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| shortie |
| we used 22$ worth last month. they want us to pay them 100$ because of fixed rate crap!! WTF?! that is in winter, too.... they said they would 're-evaluate' how much we use next september... great. assholes. hope they burn in hell. |
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| Invalid Zero |
quote:
Originally posted by flatboy
my moms contract is up the February. I was a 5 year and I think it was something like 4?? something a jigagoule. So it was a good deal then. Now they are saying like 9 something, though I don't rember what she said.
It worked out good for her except they contacted her on numerous occations and asked her to back out of the contract as they were loosing money on the deal. What the FUCK! Fuck'n prick jobs actually had the nerve to say that! Now this wasn't just once that they called her to get out of it, and they also used a major guilt trip each time they call - fuck'n baglicker IMO. Like her saving a couple dollars was goina put them in the hole? Thats what the contract was for, right?
shayne
Yeah they kept sending my mom letters too, telling her they'd give her a $1000 cheque to back out of it. LOL Stupid fucks, if you can't project what shit will cost in the future, don't offer 5 year contracts. :lol: |
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