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i was wondering about that as i was posting. i think austin has alternate power options. i could be wrong though. but the fact remains, I would NEVER pay that $8000 bill
i could be jaded and say that if she trusted the bill without question before, then she should continue to do so and pay what they tell her to pay...
at worst, they should meet half way and give her a very extended payment plan...she could pay off a $4000 dollar bill in 10 years with just 33 bux a month extra...
at best, she should get off scott free as it was CPS error and they need to be responsible for an audit system that ensures customers are being billed properly.
i think the middle ground is the fair option...
i was wondering about that as i was posting. i think austin has alternate power options. i could be wrong though. but the fact remains, I would NEVER pay that $8000 bill
You can lie and tell the cable company you don't watch TV. Sort of hard to deny electricity.I got free cable for a year because time warner forgot to disconnect the cable after the previous renters moved out of my old duplex. I was wrong for not going to time warner and telling them to charge me
watt the was she thinking?
I would have been shocked seeing a CPS bill that low!
Some of these posts are electrifying.
The power is in CPS's hands.
Sometimes going with the flow can back fire.
Plug it in....plug it in...is not a good strategy.
Man..talk about flipping the switch!!
Ducking the bill has its consequences.
Payback is a !
you guys are morons, she is ahead of the game. she ignored what was an error on the electric companies' part, and hoped it wouldn't be corrected. it did, unluckily for her, so instead of free electricity, she essentially gets an interest-free loan for several years.
furthermore, since there's a national news article about her explaining how it's unfair to pay it back, she's probably going to court. she has a case...it's the company's job to not give out free accidentally.
Nah you shouldn't have paid for it and I doubt TimeWarner would have tried to collect. The difference in the CPS case is that she actually called CPS at some point, asked them to provide service to her home, and agreed to pay for what she consumed. In your case Thisp, ignorance is the perfect excuse!I got free cable for a year because time warner forgot to disconnect the cable after the previous renters moved out of my old duplex. I was wrong for not going to time warner and telling them to charge me......
All she has to do is pay a lawyer about 1K to file papers to make CPS prove that she used the energy they say she used ,,,which they obviously can't because of negligence on their part, not the consumers....CPS could counter-sue but they would have to meet a tough reasonableness clause depending on the amount of 'base' she was getting charged...in other words, even if they won she would end up paying much less...
Wait, its the customers responsibility to get billed for the right amount? The ?
CPS ed up and this is entirely on them.
WHAT?! Don't pretend that people and corporations are on the same level. The little customers don't deserve more than 60-90 days to call mistakes to the company's attention...the corporation supplying the product has an infinite amount of time to look over what has been supplied and how much is costs the consumer - even to the point of dropping a big $8000 charge on them.
People need to stop trying to make things fair, they aren't fair for a reason!
This.
People don't budget 8000 dollars away just in case their energy company or cable company or whatever is accidentally undercharging them.
You get your bill, and you pay the amount that's on it. I think due to the fact that CPS has admitted that this was attributed to a clerical error by one of their representatives, this lady may have a case. It's not like she was stealing the energy; they weren't charging her for it. Why should she have to face financial hardship due to CPS' oversight?
these guys are good!
then you will pay the lawyer's bill instead.
I would represent myself and probably win. My track record is pretty good
What do you mean? It started while president Bush was in office. How can we blame him?
Yes, some kind of a time-frame should come in play.
Her bill was combined for electricity and gas. She didn't necessarily read the detailed billing section, but just paid.
Does anyone disagree that if she was correctly charged, she probably would have reduced her usage for these last 5 years, and budgeted differently? Asking someone to make that much money up when there was clearly a CPS error, but unclear of the error on her part is very unethical, on CPS' part.
She may not have know. We don't have all the facts. What if they installed the new meter between occupants? What if she moved from an area like mine, where low electric charges are common in places with natural gas heating?
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