I am hoping someone can please help answer this for me. I applied on Aug 9th for utilities to be transfered to my name with my local utility company. They said i would have to pay a deposit up front of 250.00 before they could connect services. I found out later that day that the house is being sold and i wont be living there so i never paid the deposit. On Aug 14th they sent a letter i got yesterday saying I owe 250.00 and if i dont pay they are turning me over to collections. The letter also states they sent a billing statement and its now past due; which they did not it was literally 5 days before this letter that i applied for new service.
Is this truly a valid debt being that it was a refundable deposit to establish service and service was never established or connected? If they do report it couldn't i dispute it from my reports due to these circumstances? Can my application alone justify their trying to collect to the credit bureaus?
Any advice on this would be much appreciated i am worried about it.
Thank you in advance.
I will call them when they open monday since monday is the last day before they say it is turned over. I was just trying to get some reassurances before then given the dates and how ridiculous this all is.
They are a crappy utility company and they take advantage of customers often and i just didn't want to call and they somehow say it's valid for some strange reason and i have to pay or be turned over so i was hoping for advice or insight on this matter before i am able to talk to someone about it. Thank you for the reply
