02 Dec 2009 6:35 PM:

 My favourite restaurant is in Puerto Banus,Italian, not cheap, but excellent.  The Manager is superb, he always offers a warm welcome, their pizza is out of this world, I know not ideal for Christmas day, but all the same worth a try at some future date.  The name of the restaurant is Amore and Fantasia.

 

 

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02 Dec 2009 2:06 PM:

 lasiesta many thanks for your best wishes and comments.

I guess that the problem will never be resolved in their eyes unless I pay up, why should I - I no longer hear from my lawyers I guess that has nothing to do with the fact that E have realised the error of their ways more likely that they have ground the lawyers down too.  An email I received from my lawyer contained the following comment

I reiterate, once this payment is made Endesa will not bother you any more as there is no electricity contract on your name at all now.

Yet less than 8 weeks later they threatened me again for the €525 electricity bill run up by the incoming tenants.

This stinks, and it probably was what tipped me over the edge in the end, forcing me to rethink about my future, did I have one in Spain, I think the answer is evidently clear.

 

Forgot to mention that this matter was settled as mentioned in my previous post.  

 

 

 

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Thread: Sevillana Endesa - has anyone else had a problem??

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02 Dec 2009 12:23 PM:

 I have confirmed with Sevillana Endesa that right now the electricity contract for apartment ?.?? the one of the debt, is cancelled. Once the €79,80 is paid, this matter will be finally closed. The sooner this is paid the better, as they are about to start proceedings to seize properties or bank accounts on your name.

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02 Dec 2009 12:00 AM:

 I have replied to a post sky high electricity bill - my reply is not really relevant to that post, but I feel that Endesa have treated me unfairly and I want to let people know about their bully boy tactics, and their sheer incompetence.

I left Spain because I could no longer tolerate the pressure I was under - having your life line (bank account) frozen is a serious threat, and one they made to my lawyer,even though my lawyer gave them evidence that I was not a tenant at the property and had not been for many months.  I can post extracts of emails from my lawyer and comments made to them from Endesa stating that they will no longer bother me - I had to remind my lawyer that I had it in writing from their firm that the matter was closed as confirmed by Endesa.  A very long, and sad tale indeed, not nice when something like this happens through no fault of your own, they think that we ex pats have nothing else better to do than to surrender to their bully boy tactics just to protect our bank account.  I have heard numerous horror stories about frozen bank accounts, not easy to unfreeze, does that surprise me? Not in the slightest.  Had I any intention of staying in Spain, I would have had no option but to have surrendered to their threats and paid for the new tenants electricity, otherwise I would have been giving them full access to my bank account and assets.  It stinks.  

As Volvo said at least Jesse James wore a mask, so did Dick Turpin, but these guys don´t need to wear masks do they, they are after all unanswerable to us the cash cow ex pats, they are either behind a glass screen in their offices or on the other end of a phone no doubt laughing at us.

Please read my saga - and believe me this is only the tip of the ice berg.  

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02 Dec 2009 11:41 AM:

 This saga goes on and on.  The tale below is only a rough outline. My lawyer has since told me that everything has to be written in tablets of stone before anything will be closed off - and that E have the last word on the matter.  That was certainly the case when I rang their debt collectors who were rude, curt and downright dismissive of me.

I could pay them the 525€ just to settle the matter, but why should I pay for someone else´s electricity??  I have already done that with the second apartment, I paid a standing charge for 3 months due to their incompetence.  Enough said.

Telefonica are also another body to watch out for a similar horror story - rang them up to say I was moving, needed to cancel the account in the apartment, and switch over to a new apartment..... Did it happen no.  But what did happen was this, I continued to get the phone bills, the money kept on going out of the bank, the phone bills still arrive in my in-box despite having told them seriously months ago that I no longer needed this line.  On checking the on line bills someone is making calls from that number, I told them that I was leaving Spain, were they interested? NO.  They connected a line for me at the new apartment, collected the money every month from our bank account, yet every month around the same time we were disconnected, this was around the time of the pay cycle.  When we rang them and eventually got through to an agent we were told that we were not with them but another supplier, if there is another good supplier on the coast then please do let me know who they are.  We were not with another supplier, why would we be, we were paying Telefonica..... No phone, no internet, yet money leaving our bank account each month.  

Sometime before we were due to leave Spain we rang our friends and told them that we needed to settle the account (the new one - not the old one) and they said they would send us a letter, the letter never arrived, we even rang them up again and again, but to no avail.  

I hate to say it but these problems have left a very sour taste in my mouth and a very negative opinion of Spain, I had hoped that I could have lived there happily, and without fuss for many years, but everything I turned my hand to was met with problems, down to finding work, there was none.  I tried my hand at being self employed, I earned 180€ a month, i had to give the government €264 pcm for social security, I can´t say I miss it.  My savings have more or less disappeared, and I now wish that I would have stayed with the devil I knew.

 

 

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