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Forum: Italy

Sep 1st 2010, 3:02 pm

Replies: 135

ENEL

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Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

Females?

Do we use more electricity than men?

Forum: Italy

Sep 1st 2010, 9:13 am

Replies: 135

ENEL

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Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

Thanks for answering Bricwood. I did mean state pensioner and you're not yet. You're as young as my dad :thumbsup:

Forum: Italy

Aug 31st 2010, 8:32 pm

Replies: 135

ENEL

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Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

Maybe everybody was blaming the post office for a fault at Enel - or maybe it really was the fault of the post office.

One thing I do know for sure ............ it's never anybody's fault here and...

Forum: Italy

Aug 31st 2010, 7:57 pm

Replies: 135

ENEL

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Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

Bricwood - until you find a tutor or somebody to teach you day to day Italian ... if anything important crops up and you feel you just don't have the Italian - tell me and I'll write it down for you....

Forum: Italy

Aug 31st 2010, 7:28 pm

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

Sorry this has happened to you Bricwood but (don't want to sound offensive here) let it be a lesson learned.

Unfortunately in Italy in most things and especially bills ..... you are guilty until...

Forum: Italy

May 14th 2010, 6:28 am

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

Tried to get through four times yesterday and after the line going dead or getting cut off repeatedly I gave up.

Will try again today.

Forum: Italy

May 12th 2010, 10:00 am

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

Holy Cow ! I have been ripped off !!!!!!!!!!!

So I got a letter in February saying that my request for the new type of medium usage contract I signed up for had not been successful and my actual...

Forum: Italy

Apr 9th 2010, 1:44 pm

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

The certificate has nothing to do with ENEL or how much electricity you have and can or cannot use. It's about giving your house an energy efficiency rating. A house with solar power will get a...

Forum: Italy

Mar 19th 2010, 7:52 am

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

but are you sure 7 won't be enough? :lol:

Forum: Italy

Mar 5th 2010, 9:55 am

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

My electricity went off this morning just before 9.30 with no warning or no signs up outside anywhere to say it would be off.

It's only just come back on now.
What a pain it is. Why does the...

Forum: Italy

Feb 27th 2010, 8:53 am

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

They're not supposed to "just cut you off" without prior warning but they very much can leave you with no electricity at all. Same for gas, telephone and everything else.

Forum: Italy

Feb 26th 2010, 3:44 pm

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

:lightbulb:

Forum: Italy

Feb 25th 2010, 1:43 pm

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

TR - did you pay and send fax?

Forum: Italy

Feb 24th 2010, 4:43 pm

Replies: 135

ENEL

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Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

I made a little mistake .........the bit where I said they'd send a letter after 10 days and then it should read ........... 5 days after receiving the letter.

I presume this means they send a...

Forum: Italy

Feb 24th 2010, 4:28 pm

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

Wherever it is possible, the provider will reduce the available power by 15% and 10 days after that reduction )if no payment received and proof sent by fax), power will be suspended.

Wow - that...

Forum: Italy

Feb 24th 2010, 4:04 pm

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

Just look out for the word contratto and keep pushing the buttons until you eventually hear some crappy music and wait for a real person to get on the line.

Forum: Italy

Feb 24th 2010, 3:56 pm

Replies: 135

ENEL

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Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

That sounds a bit weird.

I'm not sure if this is true or not but I must have heard it somewhere, that you have 2 weeks leeway to pay your bills before the providers start getting shorty.

Of...

Forum: Italy

Feb 22nd 2010, 1:15 pm

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

Great news about the refund. Shame about all the other bills coming in the very next day though.
In one hand and straight out the other ......... I know that feeling.

Forum: Italy

Feb 22nd 2010, 1:13 pm

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

Five minutes of listening to a robot and pressing the 1, 2, 3 or 4 button to move on and then five minutes of listening to crappy, repeated music, I got through to a real live person.

I was told...

Forum: Italy

Feb 19th 2010, 8:08 am

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

I wrote this post in September last year.
Yesterday I got a letter from Enel dated Rome 04/02/2010 that basically says:

Your request n. ***** has not been successful due to incongruences in your...

Forum: Italy

Sep 29th 2009, 11:26 am

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

Funerals, is that for when you've stuck your head in the gas oven coz you can't afford to pay your bills ? Bizzarre :eek:

Forum: Italy

Sep 29th 2009, 11:25 am

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

If it's an Enel bill, halfway down on the left handside of the page you'll see, Dati Fornitura.

Underneath that mine says Tipologia Contratto : Uso domestico residente.

I think it's only...

Forum: Italy

Sep 29th 2009, 10:30 am

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

Well thank goodness I said no to that gadget then.

96 Euro can buy a lot of wine :lol:

Forum: Italy

Sep 24th 2009, 7:36 am

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

:rofl:

Indie - 'in fact' probably does come from infatti.
A lot of Italians also say "for me" (per me) when they mean - in my opinion or - if you ask me ...

Forum: Italy

Sep 22nd 2009, 9:26 pm

Replies: 135

ENEL

Views: 14,436

Posted By Lorna at Vicenza

Re: ENEL

Kitchen - chicken........... chicken - kitchen - kettle -on. Is that because we always say "put the kettle on." Funny, maybe because Italians never had kettles and never had a word for kettle. They...

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