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OT - Good business decision? Kind of a rant


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Posted by Royse on January 08, 2014 at 15:08:28 from (69.36.49.186):

In my rural area most folks heat with Propane, wood or Kerosene.

The local propane companies have several payment options.

You could pre-pay and save a lot, pay as you go or sign up for a

"budget plan" that lets you pay X amount per month all year around.

I would guess this is a pretty standard setup.

Most around here use the budget plan.

It's easy, you just have to sign up early in the year to qualify.

This year, one local company didn't send out the paperwork to

sign up for their budget plan so everyone started calling them.

They said they were "changing billing systems" so they were

behind but would have them sent out in the near future.

What really happened was that they were bought out by a big

conglomerate and they were raising prices.

So they waited until it was so late in the year to announce their

new prices that those who could not afford to pre-pay or pay as

they go had no choice but to stick with them. You couldn't get

on a budget plan with another company that late in the year.

Their prices were $.70/gallon higher than everyone else.

I use a lot of propane, so for me that's about $1500 a year.

A lot of folks are stuck paying it, which I'm sure was there intention.

Others are not though. Some are so ticked off they will find any

way they can not to deal with that company. So much so that

the yards at their office are completely full with returned gas tanks.

They told me they probably won't be able to pick mine up until

spring because they have no place to put them!

Reminds me of that old saying about milking a cow for life but

only slaughtering it once.

One of the delivery guys from what was the local company told

me they are expecting layoffs because they lost so much business.

It will be interesting to see if they are still in business next year.


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