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Switched to PAYG by mistake. Hours spent trying to switch back! - NO SUCCESS!

  • March 10, 2025
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  • March 11, 2025

It’s really getting to me tbh. I have two kids and need to keep the house heated etc. It’s a whole level of stress that I really could do without. 😥


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  • March 12, 2025

UPDATE:
After a sleepless night, I have now got an ANOTHER appointment from SMSL within the next 4 hours. 

I have iterated numerous times that the engineer needs to be able to deal with 3 phase. 

Everyone please pray for me!

The solicitor is going to have so many webchats to go through!


Emmanuelle_OVO
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  • March 12, 2025

UPDATE:
After a sleepless night, I have now got an ANOTHER appointment from SMSL within the next 4 hours. 

I have iterated numerous times that the engineer needs to be able to deal with 3 phase. 

Everyone please pray for me!

The solicitor is going to have so many webchats to go through!


Please keep us posted with how you get on ​@notsosmart I’m so sorry to hear that the previous appointment was unsuccessful.


Blastoise186
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  • March 12, 2025

The solicitor is going to have so many webchats to go through!

You may want to consider using a faster - and far cheaper - option instead. Using the complaints process at https://ovoenergy.com/feedback followed by the Energy Ombudsman at https://www.energyombudsman.org/ is free and usually gives you a higher chance of a resolution that works without all the stress, hassle and cost of legal action.

It’s also worth noting that this gives OVO a chance to dig right into the root causes and potentially fix them for everyone at once - legal action might prevent them from doing that.

The other note is that the courts would expect you to have given OVO a reasonable chance to resolve this in earlier stages first. If you jump the gun and go straight for the courts, it may hurt your case badly. Better to show you’ve tried all the previous steps first as that’d strengthen your case a lot if it came to it.