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.

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    The power companies in my country use a monthly average of the yearly costs. You’ll always pay the same.

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      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.

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        11 days ago

        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%

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      Until they realize the average wasent enough and hand you a massive bill at the end of the year.

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        11 days ago

        LOL, no. Are you just making up hypothetical scenarios? FFS, even our crappy, private power company doesn’t pull that shit, even in Florida.

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      11 days ago

      We have this in Florida. Haven’t signed on as I’m continually trying to slash my bill, get more eco friendly.