Hi

Got home to find a bill from British Gas for eight pence [was 24 p in credit and bill for the quarter was 32 p !]. I can get six pence off my next bill by paying within 10 days.

At this rate they must surely be spending more to bill me than they make from me ? :thumbsup:

God your lucky!!! Our gas bill was huuuge!

I have had my credit card bill for 4p with a £20 charge if it wasn't paid. Also had a bill stating I was 3p in credit for 5 months running.:confused: :loopy:

Have only been paying bills myself since September.... guess I have more surprises to come later in life if yours are owt to go by !

Oh that's nothing!

I had one bill for a kitchen where I owed 2k, one came with 5statements with issue resolved on it and it showed I had paid it off when I still havent paid a penny for it yet:loopy: :confused:

Hopefully I never will:D :D;) :P

Originally posted by rtapper
Hi

Got home to find a bill from British Gas for eight pence [was 24 p in credit and bill for the quarter was 32 p !]. I can get six pence off my next bill by paying within 10 days.

At this rate they must surely be spending more to bill me than they make from me ? :thumbsup:
Good grief, they spend more on the postage! That's dumb.

I had one for 3 pence with some telecom company that we had in University flats! :loopy:

Recently had a tax bill for £0.00 which was pretty dumb, mind you I've had one for when they owe me money as well, doesn't happen very often but nice when it does :)

In the bank where I work, I've seen bills for 1p occasionally.

I also know someone who got a several bills from the same company for £0.00 and then got a final demand from them threatening legal action if he didn't pay £0.00. So he sent a cheque for £0.00. They've left him alone since then.

Hahaha @ Andy's story!

Originally posted by Andy
In the bank where I work, I've seen bills for 1p occasionally.

I also know someone who got a several bills from the same company for £0.00 and then got a final demand from them threatening legal action if he didn't pay £0.00. So he sent a cheque for £0.00. They've left him alone since then.

That's too mad 4 words. Shame he didn't send them a cheque for a penny and see how long it took for them to realise he'd overpaid and send the money back...

I've had a refund bill off Anglian Water (when lived in Lincolnshire) for £0.01.
It was hardly worth the shoe leather walking to the bank to pay it in!!!

Lots of people get tax bills saying £0.00, as they have to issue one for everyone - if no tax due, says £0.00.

Yeah reason they did it with me was that I recently changed from CIS to PAYE and they screwed it up :)

Originally posted by rtapper

At this rate they must surely be spending more to bill me than they make from me ? :thumbsup:


It's all automated:D

I got a bill from BT last quarter which was £-2.40. Don't know how that happened but I'm not complaining, it meant having £2.40 knocked off this quarter's.

The Student Loans company once sent me a threatening letter claiming for non-payment of £0.01 and threatened legal action :loopy:

Small boring lesson on billing systems software in an attempt to explain these small bills.

Due to the processing time required to process the huge amount of bills the majority of billing processing is done during off peak hours and is known as batch processing. The initial process of determining which bills are in arrears occurs, for instance, around 6pm. This batch processing will check every accout and may take several hours so, to avoid too much processing occuring a minimal amount of information is extracted, such as the account number, and stored.

Still here? The next batch process will then run against only those accounts which were shown to be in arrears and will extract name, address and amount of arrears. This may well take place at around 11pm.

If, between the first batch process and the second the account is paid, by BACS transfer for instance, then the overdue bill will still be produced and show the account in arrears by £0 or £0.1p or even a few pence (computers work in binary so there may always be 1/128th of a penny knocking around which is rounded up to 1p).