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Admiral Patrick Feb 12, 2025

Power company oursourced their payments. Every method except autopay now has a fee

Power company oursourced their payments. Every method except autopay now has a fee

Power company recently outsourced their payment system and now have to pay a fuckin' fee to pay my goddamned bill. The only way to avoid that is autopay. Further infuriating is I have to re-add my bank info to yet another third party system. Fuck the modern world, man.

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x00z Feb 12, 2025

In my country we have free ‘autopay’ on the banks end. You simply setup the details of the recurring transaction in your mobile app or on the website and it will automatically start paying.

Seems like you should say “fuck modern capitalism” instead.

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ShepherdPie Feb 12, 2025

The problem here is that your bill is based on usage so there’s no way to know exactly what your bill will be each month in order to set up an automatic bill pay.

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grue

My variable (usage-based) utility bills are sent as “e-bills” to my bank, so the bank’s bill pay system can pay them anyway. I can even set it up to pay in full up to some limit, so it doesn’t blindly pay if the bill is outrageous due to some mistake.