Thanks BE! You saved me a problem.
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Thanks BE! You saved me a problem.
I read a while back here that gas engineers were cruising looking for gas users to let them in, whereupon the hapless victim would end up with a massive bill.
Well, we had one of these turn up at the gate today asking to see our gas installation. I asked him if he had any official papers obliging that we allowed him entrance, and he replied that we had to have our gas tubing checked. I smiled sweetly, thanked him for the reminder and said that I would phone my own gas guy immediately.
Well, we had one of these turn up at the gate today asking to see our gas installation. I asked him if he had any official papers obliging that we allowed him entrance, and he replied that we had to have our gas tubing checked. I smiled sweetly, thanked him for the reminder and said that I would phone my own gas guy immediately.
#2
Re: Thanks BE! You saved me a problem.
I read a while back here that gas engineers were cruising looking for gas users to let them in, whereupon the hapless victim would end up with a massive bill.
Well, we had one of these turn up at the gate today asking to see our gas installation. I asked him if he had any official papers obliging that we allowed him entrance, and he replied that we had to have our gas tubing checked. I smiled sweetly, thanked him for the reminder and said that I would phone my own gas guy immediately.
Well, we had one of these turn up at the gate today asking to see our gas installation. I asked him if he had any official papers obliging that we allowed him entrance, and he replied that we had to have our gas tubing checked. I smiled sweetly, thanked him for the reminder and said that I would phone my own gas guy immediately.
Wish I'd had my thinking head on when it happened to us last year!
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Re: Thanks BE! You saved me a problem.
They have lots of warnings here about them, but they prey on catching holiday makers or renters who do not know the score and still catch a lot.
A guy near us owns a place but only holidays in it and got caught a couple of weeks ago, 300€`s but he only had about 30 on him and the guy said he would return the next day, but he never turned up for the balance.
A guy near us owns a place but only holidays in it and got caught a couple of weeks ago, 300€`s but he only had about 30 on him and the guy said he would return the next day, but he never turned up for the balance.
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Re: Thanks BE! You saved me a problem.
This happened to us when we were renting in a small village I walked into the house as they were talking to my husband and heard what they were saying so I turned round and went into the farmacia a couple of doors down. We were friendly with the farmacia and he came back with me and spoke to the blokes, they left very quickly but he didn't tell us what he said, just that it was a trick to extort money from us.