{"id":27897,"date":"2016-09-30T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/two-years-on-we-still-cant-switch-from-scottish-power\/"},"modified":"2016-09-30T13:08:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T06:08:01","slug":"two-years-on-we-still-cant-switch-from-scottish-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/two-years-on-we-still-cant-switch-from-scottish-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Two years on, we still can\u2019t switch from Scottish Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nOur meters were registered to the wrong address half a mile awayWe bought our first home in January 2014 and were automatically placed on Scottish Power\u2019s standard dual fuel tariff. We soon realised this was poor value so tried to switch. Unfortunately, Scottish Power registered our meters to the wrong address.Two years of phone calls and emails got us nowhere so we contacted the ombudsman, which ruled that Scottish Power must backdate our billing to refund the difference between the tariff we were on and its most competitive tariff.  Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2016\/sep\/30\/cant-switch-scottish-power-meter-wrong-address\" target=\"_blank\">Two years on, we still can\u2019t switch from Scottish Power<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Our meters were registered to the wrong address half a mile awayWe bought our first&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-7fX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3439,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/scottish-power-to-cut-gas-prices-by-5-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":27897,"position":0},"title":"Scottish Power to cut gas prices by 5.4%","date":"February 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Energy firm says that changes will take effect from March, as it becomes the third of the big suppliers to announce a price drop this year Scottish Power has said it will cut gas prices for existing customers by 5.4% on 15 March, becoming the third of the big\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":63898,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/metric-meter-and-imperial-bills-leave-scottish-power-confused\/","url_meta":{"origin":27897,"position":1},"title":"Metric meter and imperial bills leave Scottish Power confused","date":"August 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r I have emailed and sent photos to explain what the problem is, but to no availScottish Power seems to think I live in a blast furnace and use \u00a3400 worth of gas every month. 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