{"id":105,"date":"2013-03-12T11:53:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T11:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/?p=105"},"modified":"2013-04-09T06:38:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T06:38:07","slug":"mickey-mouse-accounting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Mouse Accounting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/donkey.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/donkey-300x245.gif\" alt=\"donkey\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-106\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI recently received my quarterly electricity statement from Scottish Power which was based on an estimate of the amount of juice I&#8217;d used. In the next post, I received a letter saying my Direct Debit was going to be increased from \u00a340 to \u00a347 per month starting in April.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody likes price increases but I thought &#8216;fair enough&#8217;, we can&#8217;t do much about it.<\/p>\n<p>But I noticed that the estimated meter reading was more than I&#8217;d actually used so I completed the online meter reading webpage. You never know, the DD might only increase to, say \u00a346 a month instead and better in my bank account than theirs.<\/p>\n<p>Got an email this morning thanking me for my updated meter reading.. oh and we&#8217;ll be increasing the Direct Debit to \u00a349 a month (not \u00a347) and starting in March instead of April !<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, use less leccy than they estimated but pay them \u00a32 a month more and starting a month earlier!<\/p>\n<p>Phoned them up and explained I couldn&#8217;t understand the logic behind their accounting so they&#8217;ve dropped the DD to \u00a345 a month (starting in April) &#8211; the \u00a349 for March has already gone through!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how they work out the monthly Direct Debit but I bet they&#8217;re crap at pinning the tail on the donkey as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received my quarterly electricity statement from Scottish Power which was based on an estimate of the amount of juice I&#8217;d used. In the next post, I received a letter saying my Direct Debit was going to be increased from \u00a340 to \u00a347 per month starting in April. Nobody likes price increases but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}