Prepaid electricity sliding scale?

jman

jman

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So I bought R1000 worth of electricity for my prepaid meter (14/01/2017), received around 517 units. Electricity ran out, bought R1000 more (31/01/2017), received around 470 units. :confused:

I mail the guys that administer the electricity (proteametering), and they said the following:

"Thank you for your email.

The tariffs work on a sliding scale so the more you purchase in one month the more you start to pay per unit.

You purchase on the 14/01/2017 for R1000 and you purchase on the 31/01/2017 again a R1000.00.

So on your second purchase your start to pay more per unit, that is the reason why you receive less units."

This sounds illegal. How can they charge more per unit simply because I bought more electricity in the same month
 
He's correct, the more you use the more you pay.

A staff member at P&P swears that buying R10 per day works out cheaper than R100 every ten days.

Me? I wait until i have one day's worth and then buy in R500 batches. Previously I'd buy for R1000, followed by R1000 when that started running low.
 
As far as I know all electricity is priced on a sliding scale and not just prepaid. E.g. first x units cost Ra each, next y units cost Rb each with b > a etc.
 
Jehosefat said:
As far as I know all electricity is priced on a sliding scale and not just prepaid. E.g. first x units cost Ra each, next y units cost Rb each with b > a etc.
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That is true. Pricing is the same regardless of whether it is pre or post paid. Post paid just sucks when they estimate instead of taking actual reading.
 
Hmm okay thanks guys. Should have bought the electricity the following day then, because that would have worked out to be the following month. I don't think we'd be able to do it in R500 increments
 
jman said:
Hmm okay thanks guys. Should have bought the electricity the following day then, because that would have worked out to be the following month. I don't think we'd be able to do it in R500 increments
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Mail guy back and ask him the current sliding scale price structure
Post it here and we can maybe see if you can use it to your advantage
Also mention your average monthly purchase
 
Why are you people buying so much electricity, big households?
 
jman said:
Well I stay in a house of 4 guys. Usually with others staying over - girlfriends and such
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oh fully then, can see it ...... I'm switching to prepaid soon and I was like yeesh, it's that much more costly!?! :D
 
jman said:
So I bought R1000 worth of electricity for my prepaid meter (14/01/2017), received around 517 units. Electricity ran out, bought R1000 more (31/01/2017), received around 470 units. :confused:

I mail the guys that administer the electricity (proteametering), and they said the following:

"Thank you for your email.

The tariffs work on a sliding scale so the more you purchase in one month the more you start to pay per unit.

You purchase on the 14/01/2017 for R1000 and you purchase on the 31/01/2017 again a R1000.00.

So on your second purchase your start to pay more per unit, that is the reason why you receive less units."

This sounds illegal. How can they charge more per unit simply because I bought more electricity in the same month
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you should have bought R100 on the 31st and R900 on the 1st. the units bought magically reset on the 1st.

you must find out what category you are, then you will get the units for the first tranche. then you can workout how much you can purchase before it becomes more expensive.
 
akescpt said:
you should have bought R100 on the 31st and R900 on the 1st. the units bought magically reset on the 1st.

you must find out what category you are, then you will get the units for the first tranche. then you can workout how much you can purchase before it becomes more expensive.
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Suppose we live and learn. Thanks for the info :)
 
That does not match with the amount of units you actually got...
 
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