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MsMBV
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PSA: Check your utilities bill
I neurotically check my utilities bill against my meters. For the third time in just over a year LIPA & Keyspan have overcharged me for my usage. To date, they have over charged me a total of over $600.
I am now reading my own meter & submitting the readings to them myself.
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
Posted by MsMBV
I neurotically check my utilities bill against my meters. For the third time in just over a year LIPA & Keyspan have overcharged me for my usage. To date, they have over charged me a total of over $600.
I am now reading my own meter & submitting the readings to them myself.
wow! i need to find out what date the meter readings have to be in by? do you know?
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| Posted 1/26/07 9:07 AM |
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BabyAvocado
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
Wow...I didn't even know you could do that. I bet we are getting over charged too. When I hear what others pay for LIPA, it is always far less than we pay.
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| Posted 1/26/07 9:10 AM |
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SweetestOfPeas
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
LIPA & Keyspan BLOW!!!!! 
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| Posted 1/26/07 9:11 AM |
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MsMBV
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
Posted by janet
Posted by MsMBV
I neurotically check my utilities bill against my meters. For the third time in just over a year LIPA & Keyspan have overcharged me for my usage. To date, they have over charged me a total of over $600.
I am now reading my own meter & submitting the readings to them myself.
wow! i need to find out what date the meter readings have to be in by? do you know?
It's on your bill 
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| Posted 1/26/07 9:12 AM |
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janet
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
Posted by MsMBV
Posted by janet
Posted by MsMBV
I neurotically check my utilities bill against my meters. For the third time in just over a year LIPA & Keyspan have overcharged me for my usage. To date, they have over charged me a total of over $600.
I am now reading my own meter & submitting the readings to them myself.
wow! i need to find out what date the meter readings have to be in by? do you know?
It's on your bill
thanks i will check it when it comes next time... i never even open the actual bill when it comes.. i pay everything online, so when it comes i usually just go to the web site
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| Posted 1/26/07 9:13 AM |
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MsMBV
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
It might be online too, when you see all the info on the left of the page. I am not sure though.
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
Posted by MsMBV
I neurotically check my utilities bill against my meters. For the third time in just over a year LIPA & Keyspan have overcharged me for my usage. To date, they have over charged me a total of over $600.
I am now reading my own meter & submitting the readings to them myself.
And if they are doing it to you then they are overcharging TONS more families. I hope more people realize this and contest their bills.
Sounds like the potential for a class action suit
ETA - the issue there is the amount due back to the customers would be eaten up in legal fees
Message edited 1/26/2007 9:18:43 AM.
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MsMBV
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
Posted by MrsT
Posted by MsMBV
I neurotically check my utilities bill against my meters. For the third time in just over a year LIPA & Keyspan have overcharged me for my usage. To date, they have over charged me a total of over $600.
I am now reading my own meter & submitting the readings to them myself.
And if they are doing it to you then they are overcharging TONS more families. I hope more people realize this and contest their bills.
Sounds like the potential for a class action suit
Yeah that is what I am thinking. I fugured OK once is a mistake, twice might be a problem with the system, but three times...buddy you are trying to s crew me.
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IrishMom77
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
I always want to record my meter, but I dont
I got my bills yesterday and there were normal for this time of year for us...100 for LIPA and 140 for Keyspan. It is usually that amount for Jan & Feb
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| Posted 1/26/07 9:21 AM |
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
Posted by SweetestOfPeas
LIPA & Keyspan BLOW!!!!!
amen!
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| Posted 1/26/07 9:28 AM |
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
I will start checking for now on
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| Posted 1/26/07 9:30 AM |
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
I started paying for electricity for the first time three months ago. I have no idea how to check my meter, or even which one it is (we live in a 2 family house).
Does the meter get reset on a certain date, and then you record the reading on the date of your bill? Then match it to what they say it is?
I see you can enter meter readings on their website. How do they know you're not lying? Do you have to fight to get the right numbers recorded?
I'm sorry so many silly questions, I've never done this before.
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| Posted 1/26/07 9:30 AM |
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
Great idea!!! THANKS!
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| Posted 1/26/07 9:32 AM |
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MsMBV
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
Posted by greenfreak
I started paying for electricity for the first time three months ago. I have no idea how to check my meter, or even which one it is (we live in a 2 family house).
Does the meter get reset on a certain date, and then you record the reading on the date of your bill? Then match it to what they say it is?
I see you can enter meter readings on their website. How do they know you're not lying? Do you have to fight to get the right numbers recorded?
I'm sorry so many silly questions, I've never done this before.
You can ask your landlord where the meter is. all you need to do is look at the numbers. They look like the old odometer in the cars. Don't worry about all the little weird numbers on top or anything. They will only contest your numbers if they are dramatically different than what you normally use, or if they jump around alot. They do not reset the meter, but rather they record the pattern of the numbers.
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| Posted 1/26/07 9:33 AM |
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
Thank you!!
My landlord is an idiot, we know the house better than he does. But if the meter reading is on the website or the bill, I can just match it up to the right meter. They're bound to be different.
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| Posted 1/26/07 9:36 AM |
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kaklesmay
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
I check my meter and enter it online when I pay my bill every month.
Do you think they ever update it?
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!
We are overcharged anyway!
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| Posted 1/26/07 11:52 AM |
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MsMBV
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
Posted by kaklesmay
I check my meter and enter it online when I pay my bill every month.
Do you think they ever update it?
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!
We are overcharged anyway!
Call & fight it. The first time we noticed a discrepancy we were arguing with them for over 3 month about it before they credited my account.
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
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I will start checking for now on
Me too!!
Thanks for the heads up - I didn't even think to check it myself
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Sweetpea130000
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
Posted by MsMBV
Posted by kaklesmay
I check my meter and enter it online when I pay my bill every month.
Do you think they ever update it?
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!
We are overcharged anyway!
Call & fight it. The first time we noticed a discrepancy we were arguing with them for over 3 month about it before they credited my account.
With Keyspan if you notice before you pay, you can call them and give them the correct reading and they will reissue your bill, this always happens to us, we are now going to have them leave those little cards so we can send in our reading.
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
I do this too, DH thought I was crazy until we wound up with a $900 credit due to all the $$ we were overpaying
ETA: I also make sure the guy that comes to read the meter has the same number that I get.
Message edited 1/26/2007 1:08:08 PM.
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SweetestOfPeas
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
Posted by MrsRbk
I do this too, DH thought I was crazy until we wound up with a $900 credit due to all the $$ we were overpaying
W T F? this makes me SO angry! we already over pay by so much compared to the rest of the country 
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
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Posted by MrsRbk
I do this too, DH thought I was crazy until we wound up with a $900 credit due to all the $$ we were overpaying
W T F? this makes me SO angry! we already over pay by so much compared to the rest of the country
I know, it's disgusting! DH never questioned it because he just thought, well we have a big house, so of course the bill is going to be high. Well, sure.... higher than living in an apartment, but not THAT high!!
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| Posted 1/26/07 1:12 PM |
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I am moving into an apt where I will pay electric for the first time so thanks sooooo much for this tip. I am so nervous over it!
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| Posted 1/26/07 1:38 PM |
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Re: PSA: Check your utilities bill
ITA - Very true. Our gas meter is in our side yard, which is locked and can't be read. I am a SAHM and never once has a Keyspan person come to read our gas meter.
Well, DH read it himself and checked it against our bills. Called Keyspan with the actual reading and we were credited more than $600....
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