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August 6, 2023
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Issues with meter appointment and broken meter

  • August 6, 2023
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A few weeks ago I received a new prepayment card. The instructions said to use up any credit and then insert the card.

Last night my credit ran out I popped in the new on and was met with FAIL in big letters.

I contacted ovo this morning at 9am where the representative had issues understanding. She kept telling me to put credit on it took ages for me to get her to understand I can't it says fail. 

She opened up a job for me at 9am saying that someone would be round in 3-4 hours. Five hours have now gone by I have spoken to webchat they told me they don't deal with heritage meters despite the person on the phone telling me to use this if there was a issue.

No one has called I gave them my phone number and I have been on hold with customer services for half a hour at this point. I had to take the day off work to get this fixed.

Best answer by Jeffus

Updated on 05/08/25 by Emmanuelle_OVO:

 

Guaranteed Standards of Performance are the promises we make to you, as your energy supplier. 

 

We’ll always do our best to keep these promises. If for some reason we don’t meet the guaranteed standards, we’ll pay £40 directly into your OVO Energy account. This is our way of saying sorry. It’s sometimes called GSOP compensation, or a GSOP payment.

 

If you’ve had a missed meter appointment with no prior notice for the cancellation, you could be entitled to out Guaranteed Standard of Performance payment. For more on this, check out the article below as well as one of our Forum topic:

 

https://www.ovoenergy.com/help/article/guaranteed-standard-of-performance-gsop

https://www.ovoenergy.com/help/article/meter-error-codes-and-what-they-mean

 

 

30 replies

Rank 2
August 9, 2023

Unfortunately he wasn't able to fix it as he didn't have the correct meter with him so someone is coming back tonight 

Emmanuelle_OVO
Retired Moderator
Retired Moderator
August 9, 2023

Hey @Harriethat,

 

Please keep us posted, I hope that this gets resolved for you this evening! 

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Rank 2
August 9, 2023

The engineer said that someone would come to replace my meter at 7pm this evening. I got home from work at 6:45pm it's now gone 9pm they are 2 hours late no one has called I can't follow anything up customer services is closed.

 

And I still have no gas.

 

 

Jeffus
Rank 20
Rank 20
August 9, 2023

Unfortunately he wasn't able to fix it as he didn't have the correct meter with him so someone is coming back tonight 

You are entitled to compensation for this as well under the ofgem rules if they turn up with the wrong stuff

Another £30, and again another £30 if they don't pay within 10 days of the appointment. 

Rank 2
August 9, 2023

I want to cry at this point.

I've taken a whole day off work in which they missed 2 appointments. The next day 1 more missed appointment. Blaming it on having the wrong phone number despite me giving them the right number (and customer services even called me on it so rubbish)

Appointment 4 he turns up but doesn't have the right meter.

Appointment 5 no one turns up. 

Since Saturday night with no gas. No one to contact after 8pm.  Every outlet I speak to sends me back round to the customer service number I started with. I'm fed up.

Rank 2
August 10, 2023

Safe to say one this is fixed and the opportunity arises I will leave OVO as soon as possible. As a company its a complete and utter shambles. I will also warn anyone I know from ever getting utilities from them. 

Jeffus
Rank 20
Rank 20
August 10, 2023

Safe to say one this is fixed and the opportunity arises I will leave OVO as soon as possible. As a company its a complete and utter shambles. I will also warn anyone I know from ever getting utilities from them. 

 

You could post a review on on Trustpilot

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.ovoenergy.com

Obviously depends on what you want, and no supplier is perfect

Octopus get by far the best reviews on Trustpilot

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/octopus.energy

And is the only supplier currently recommended by Which

https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/energy-companies/article/energy-company-reviews/octopus-energy-aESDM2a8ISWP

Rank 2
August 10, 2023

It's not fixed yet. I will be calling them again this morning

Rank 2
August 10, 2023

I have just spoken to them. The first person hung up on me.  I am now sick to death of explaining this over and over.

They are going to book another emergency appointment. This will be appointment number SIX IN FIVE DAYS.  

Tim_OVO
OVO Staff
OVO Forum Legend
August 10, 2023

Once that gas is back on supply, @Harriethat, work with our Support team to get that complaint resolved. A open (unresolved) complaint should already be on your account if (and I would understand why) you’ve expressed dissatisfaction at your experience so far. So once you’re back on supply with gas, you just need to allow us to agree a resolution that works for you. 

 

One way or another for any missed appointment you will be owed compensation. 

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