I've had British Gas set the debt collectors on me twice
for gas and electricity used in a house after I had moved out. The second time the original account hadn't even been in my name because I refused to have anything to do with them after the first one so made my housemate deal with them instead. There was also the time they owed me £250 for a gas account and kept sending me threatening letters asking for the £50 that was owed on the electric account. It took three months of phone calls just to get them to transfer some of the money they owed me to the other account to pay off the balance and another three months for them to actually refund me the £200 they owed me. It was just after I got this money back that they set the debt collectors on me for an account I never even had with them (instead of setting up an "occupier" account they set up another one in my name). Bunch of idiots.

My little bit of revenge is I know exactly who they have to talk to to find out who owes them the £200 they just tried to pin on me but I'm not going to tell them. I hope they never get the money.
(mmm....beer, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 15:31, Reply)