Power company recently outsourced their payment system and now have to pay a fuckin’ fee to pay my goddamned bill. The only way to avoid that is autopay.
Further infuriating is I have to re-add my bank info to yet another third party system.
Fuck the modern world, man.
The problem here is that your bill is based on usage so there’s no way to know exactly what your bill will be each month in order to set up an automatic bill pay.
The power companies in my country use a monthly average of the yearly costs. You’ll always pay the same.
Until they realize the average wasent enough and hand you a massive bill at the end of the year.
LOL, no. Are you just making up hypothetical scenarios? FFS, even our crappy, private power company doesn’t pull that shit, even in Florida.
Where I live in the states, my power company offers an option to do the same thing. And every year, they adjust it based on overages/underages from the previous year.
Yep exactly. It works pretty nice here. Except for a power crisis we had a few years ago, where they had to change stuff of contracts around because the price went up by almost 300%
We have this in Florida. Haven’t signed on as I’m continually trying to slash my bill, get more eco friendly.
My variable (usage-based) utility bills are sent as “e-bills” to my bank, so the bank’s bill pay system can pay them anyway. I can even set it up to pay in full up to some limit, so it doesn’t blindly pay if the bill is outrageous due to some mistake.