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my credit score is zero
June 7, 2010
unauthorized penalties
Nicor Solutions was supposed to set me up with a level pay account for my gas company bill (Nicor, which by the way, they are not part of). I made my payments and was way ahead of what I actually owed the gas company. Then I was 2 weeks late on a payment. Nicor Solutions now said I owed them a "penalty" of $632. They have tried to sue me for the amount, but as they don't have my signature on anything that says I agreed to this penalty, no lawyer will take the case. The amount is something they apparently pulled out of their collective a**, since it isn't a multiple of any of my payment amounts. This has been going on for years and they have managed to ruin my credit with a black mark of a "pending lawsuit". I guess the only option I have is to pay their extortion, because I can't afford a lawyer to sue them. DON'T check any boxes on your bill that you are interested in level pay. That's all I did, and now my credit score is a big fat zero!
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jnadenik
November 10, 2009
Rip off/ scam
Have just found out that I have been involved in a scam for several years. Worst part is the scam artist is a local utility supplier Nicor Solutions. They have collected over $2400 over and above what my cost of gas should have been for the past 4 years. And, when questioned about it they said that was the contract I chose. I asked for a copy of the contract that I signed, conveniently they say it was verbal. I asked to have the money refunded and was told the best he could do was give me a one month credit. Other people need to know how their "Fixed Bill Program" works and that it is a rip off. As for me, I am a single mom trying to support two kids on a limited income in a home that my Mom is letting us live in. I'm mad as H... and am not going to take it any more! But have been told that I would need to pay an EXIT FEE just to get out of the program! Now if all of this doesn't scream SCAM I don't know what does - how can this be legal? Can anyone help me?
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