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To those who say pennies are worth nothing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060516/...NlYwNtZW5ld3M-
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I find it amusing that the electric company probably lost more money by turning her power off then by just leaving it on. Of course I guess I shouldn't be surprised, the way businesses are ran these days. |
The rest of the story confuses me. Why does this woman have an electricity bill of sixteen hundred fucking dollars? That could cover my entire utilities bill for months and months. I feel like I'm either missing something obvious, or things are WAY cheaper than they should be here.
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From what I have seen in the area, I figure the high cost is mostly due to the fact that the houses in that area were not built or maintained with energy conservation in mind.
She might also have had very wasteful kids. The attitude of people in that area is one of negligence and apathy about that sort of thing. Although, I am still surprised by this, since this past winter in Flint wasn't that bad at all. In fact, it was the warmest I had ever experienced in my life. |
Or she just didn't pay her bill for a year and a half. The power company is more lenient than most - it tends to take anywhere between 3-6 months for them to even send you a notice. You'll get cut off shortly after, but you can stall them by paying a small amount or asking to work out a payment arrangement and then not paying.
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That was pretty nonsensical of the electric company. Why waste their time and the woman's time over one penny? Would it have been so hard for someone down in accounting or whatever to pull a penny out of their pocket and pay it for her? I'm not gonna say it was stupid of the electric company, but they should use some common sense next time.
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Seems that is mostly for lack of payments, as the lady says that she will be on top of her bills after that to prevent it from happenning again
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At least she didn't have to pay late fees or interest on the penny. I could see it now:
Electric company: OK, the total bill comes to $0.01, plus $10,000.00 in late fees. Cash only please. Customer: *faints* |
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Yeah, it does seem a bit of a stretch for the power company to do that over a penny. But I can see too how it could turn out if they were even more lenient that way. Before you know it, people would be saying the same thing only it would be "It was just a dollar", and then that would get stretched even further to "It was just $10", "It was only $50", and so on. Yeah, I'm exaggerating, but you get my drift. They have to draw the line somewhere if they don't want their clients raping them day in and day out.
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wow, i believe that is either really sad, or that electric company was one penny short on their electric bill :) although i never said pennies were worthless especially since i use them to help me not have leftover change which only weighs me down! GO PENNIES!
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On the one hand, I see how ludicrous it is over a single penny. Quite a drastic action that could have been easily let go until the next payment.
On the other hand, if everyone was always a penny short, they would definitely be cheated by the public out a sum of money (Let's see $0.01 X 100000 people = $1000?) It does feel rather merciless, but since electricity is basically a monopoly, they don't really have to aim towards customer satisfaction. Perhaps this is an example of them enforcing their reins with a brutal show of authority :( |
My guess is this persons bill was so high because they hadn't paid it in a couple months. That would explain why they were so ruthless about one cent. Hell, If some one had pissed me off by not paying for months, I wouldn't let them get out of a penny.
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yeah...but still, it seems really odd that they would track this one person if this happens all the time, I would understand, but this doesn't seem like it's common practice I mean, how many other reports to we hear about Edison when it's not about a power shortage? correct me if I'm wrong, but it just seems like one isolated incident to me... |
Nobody said following standard operating procedures is a logical matter :D The system probably flagged her account as scheduled for service stoppage, and left it at that.
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Hmm, that's funny. Even with four or five people in the house at all times, most of the time. My little brother and I constantly playing games with lights on(Lights at night) and TV as well, our's only come out to 120 dollars a month.
Hmm, oh well, she should be more careful with what goes on fincially and like Zergrinch said. It was probaly because of the fact that they flagged her account and forgot about it. |
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You.... you mean to tell me that complaints are now corporate rape? Complaints about shutting off the electricity over one penny is rape? I........ I. |
We had a news story thingy a bit like this the other day, except I think it was for a phone company wanting two cents from an old lady. Good thing Australia stopped the one and two cent pieces here years ago so she can't pay. But the phone company cut her off anyway. The lesson here is that all old people should be picked on over crazy small amounts of money like this because they're old and hilariously confused.
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That is rediculas! all over one cent? man if my company was like that I'd be switching companys. however how the hell do you get a bill that high?
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Uhhhhhh...... as far as I know... there aren't really a lot of choices when it comes to who you get your electricity from. Atleast around here there is OPPD and thats it, so if you want power from another company you're shit outta luck.
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You have no choice here in Wisconsin either. It's WE(Wisconsin Energy.) or nothing.
And they have the right to do anything to you if you can not pay your bill, regardless if it's a penny or 20,000 dollars but you can NOT TELL ME that she did not have any pennies laying around. There is always a shitload of pennies floating around in my parent's cars, my house and including in the big ceramic pot I made to put change in. |
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