Amigo got the best of my in July when I stunned to see a drastic 50% increase in my bill. I had been averaging about. 11 cents a kW and in June it had increased up to about. 14 cents. Then the shocker, I opened my July bill and I was in total shock to see my rate went from. 14 cent to over. 24 cents a kW the HIGHEST in Texas. So in one month my RATE MORE THAN DOUBLED. That is just insane! Please see following electricity fact label off their web site:
Over Inflated Rates
Why the increase? Could it be the high gas costs, high oil price or just the fact that they can extort money from people by increasing the rate at will. They blame the increase on high oil/gas costs but I don't know of one single power plant that runs on crude oil so we know that isn't the case. Hadn't heard coal or natural gas prices in the news lately so it's not that. I would imagine it is just pure greed and knowing that they can change your rate at the at the end of the last billing cycle and you can't do anything about for 30 days. That's just wrong. Your at their mercy. You have no idea what your going to be paying per kW till it is too late. Then it takes a month to get your power moved.
They tried to persuade their variable rate customers into signing up for their higher rate fixed billing on the June bill but I figured that if my rate increased it would only be a couple cents and since I wasn't really bound to a contract I could get out if it was unreasonable. I guess they retaliated against those who didn't switch to fixed because now (August) their rates are back down to the standard industry rates. They did not notify their customers to this ridiculous rate increase prior.
I thought EXTORTION was illegal, I guess that isn't the case with Amigo Energy. Be warned, stay away from them. They obviously do not care about keeping customers.
Thanks
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