They were really aggressive about trying to pressure my neighbor and I into giving them our information.
This also happened at our house, where two guys showed up at about 9pm, ringing our doorbells repeatedly. They are prowling in the suburbs, too, and the next time a total stranger knocks at my door after dark pitching this SCAM, I will open the door and let the dogs take care of it. (Beware companies that do not have fixed rates, though!) I switched to Con Edison, but PECO sends me the bill. Last year competition was allowed to take place, and PECO encouraged people to look into other energy companies to compare. If you do change your energy provider PECO still does your billing – they don’t lose any money at all. I had guys walking around in South Philadelphia, too. If anyone else signed the form (as I did) they can call the company within three business days to cancel.” I don’t know if their company is any better or any worse, but people should be able to make their own decisions and not get pressured by this misinformation. What they do is take your information from PECO and use it to change over your energy provider to them.
They quickly left before I could read the fine print of what I signed, but I looked it up afterwards and realized they completely misrepresented their affiliation: they are in no way affiliated with PECO, but are a competitor company. They then called their managers to, in their words, make sure the new discount was applied to my bill, and then had me sign something and write down my account number. They represented themselves as belonging to the parent agency of my electric provider and asked to look at my PECO bill to make sure that I was getting the newly-lowered rate customers in this area are supposed to be getting, since there was an “error” and “some customers were accidentally getting overcharged and hadn’t properly fixed it on their bills.” They claimed this “fixing” would be greatly expedited if they did it for me.
There were two well-dressed young men going door to door in my neighborhood (Spruce Hill area) from Direct Energy. Some people seem to know about this company already, but for people who are new to the area, like me, it seemed believable. “I thought other West Philadelphians should be made aware of door-to-door salesmen who try to scam you into switching energy companies. Reader Chelsea believes she was pressured into switching energy providers by door-to-door salesmen and wants other residents to be aware of this possible scam.
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