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>> Most sites don't work as well >Citation definitely needed.

Cite me. Impossible to pay my elec bill w/o chrome on my country's biggest energy provider.

Silent errors on many sites.

FF-esr on Debian



"This site works best on Internet Explorer 6 at an resolution of 1024x768."


You know what they say about history repeating itself...


> Impossible to pay my elec bill w/o chrome on my country's biggest energy provider.

I've had similar experiences with various bills over the years (though fewer recently), so these days I default to dealing with those by 'pushing' the payment from my bank to the utility rather than having the utility 'pull' a payment from the bank.

It would be nice if the bank could poll a utility to discover the payment amount rather than having to enter the amount manually from reading the bill, but as inconveniences go that's fairly small potatoes.


I find it odd that anyone would have to manually pay an electricity bill these days.


I refuse to get auto-debited. This thing is obscene : you let a company debit any sum at will from your bank account.


People were getting five figure debits in Texas because of this. There should be some guardrails in bill pay arrangements.


My electricity provider has absolutely no trust from me after a number of experiences which I won’t describe here. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised to find they’ve overcharged me. The process to deal with them in any regard is always byzantine. So, I suppose it depends on what you mean by “have to.”


The world is big my friend, it happens where I live.


I find it odd that anyone would give permission to a third party (any third party) to at will withdraw money directly from your bank account (and if I'm understanding correctly how it works in the US without even being able to set limits on it, neither in frequency nor amount).




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