Took me 3 tries to figure out my electric bill was wrong

I kept wondering why my bill was $80 higher than last summer even though I was running the AC less. After two months of calling the power company and getting nowhere, I finally sat down and compared my meter reading to what they were billing me. They had me on some commercial rate by mistake. Took about 4 hours total to sort it out once I knew what to look for. Has anyone else caught a billing error that took way too long to fix?

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saraho4825d ago

Oh man, that sounds exactly like something I'd do - stare at a wrong bill for months and just assume I was losing my mind. Last year I paid $50 extra for "premium vegetation management" on my electric bill before realizing that's just what they call trimming a tree that doesn't even exist in my yard. Took me three calls and a full afternoon of going through old statements with a highlighter before they admitted it was a mistake.