These electric bills in the uk are stressing me out

@Fluffybull its strange they dont email us for a reading but the person we spoke to said we should send our readings in every month or if we dont then we get a estimate charged to us so i think theyre charging us for both. Its ridiculous. Our actual readings are like half of what theyre estimating.

Is it worth getting a smart meter?

@DarkSideoftheMoon What electricity supplier are you with?

RI wouldn't get a smart meter with all the complaints people are making about them 😆

Hi ow do you mean, they "charge for estimated readings? 🤔

@Fluffybull we are with eon next and we send our readings in every month. They send us a bill and we pay it

Well they charged us an estimate reading from march to August 1st, based on their estimated readings, and deducted what we have paid and the want us to pay the difference but its stupid because we are paying our actual energy usage but it diesnt correspond with the companys estimated amount.

So they could send a meter guy out to check we are telling the truth but instead they want us to pay the difference and over pay. If thats the case why the hell are we providing meter readings and why qre they asking us 5 months later to back pay. I dont get it. Its so sloppy i just dont know if anyone else had this happen. Ive been in the uk over a year but the last place we lived it was prepaid.

@DarkSideoftheMoon Can't you just change to paying quarterly and provide readings every quarter?

@Fluffybull ill ask if we can do that. Someone told us to get a smart meter. That that would be much easier than sending readings and paying more in estimates so we were going to do that but someone said dont do it and didnt say why