Outrageous Kaharamma Bill

Bilabong
By Bilabong

Has anyone recently experienced an outrageously high Kaharamma bill in the Al Waab area? I am talking QR 5000/- compared with monthly usual of QR 600/-. I called Kaharamma and they indicated it coukd be an error!!

By ramyk• 5 Oct 2011 18:11
ramyk

Did anyone speak to Karamaa' or get to the bottom of this?

By anonymous• 5 Oct 2011 15:06
anonymous

just use candle lighting and fan and no worries about kharama bill....

By anonymous• 5 Oct 2011 15:01
anonymous

yalla

By vxfarm2011• 5 Oct 2011 14:44
vxfarm2011

no guessing... we need to pay what we used...

By jjj75• 5 Oct 2011 14:36
jjj75

911 sounds like you believe in fairytales

By jjj75• 5 Oct 2011 14:21
jjj75

we complained for ages about high bills and they eventually found that the qatar meter was not working so they were just 'guessing' how much we owed them. Needless to say we never got  a penny back.

 

Agree with LP - the cost of water and elec that the locals don't pay, simply get added to our bills in some way or another

By stealth• 5 Oct 2011 14:16
stealth

do you check your meter reading every month?

By GodFather.• 5 Oct 2011 13:56
GodFather.

LP spot on!

By anonymous• 5 Oct 2011 13:53
anonymous

It's simple: the nationals don't pay electricity, so it's the expatriates who are milked like cows!

By anonymous• 5 Oct 2011 13:46
anonymous

weird, right? QEWC should really look into this matter and fix it ASAP 'cause it is really unacceptable to pay x3 of your previous bill when the fact that you have consumed almost the same e/w last month

By vxfarm2011• 4 Oct 2011 11:46
vxfarm2011

i have the same experience but it has some readings... but the most important is that we jumped from less than 400 to 700QR this month... Grrrrr!!!!

By vxfarm2011• 4 Oct 2011 11:43
vxfarm2011

If all of our bills were estimated, then it is really unfair even if it benefits you by having less. More to worry if you have more that you are actually using. Perhaps somebody can add to this based on their experiences...

By anonymous• 4 Oct 2011 11:25
anonymous

we have the same issue. for the past few months our bills wouldn't go up to 300QR even, but now when we checked our bill we were suprised that we need to pay 804QR! there was no reading for the water consumption but they put around 200QR as 'extra charges'. when my husband inquired about this he was told that they have increased their rate due to their 'new system' and that they will just refund whatever amount they'll owe us next month.

By Apple• 3 Oct 2011 21:54
Apple

Same issues here and  we went to kahramaa to find out the problem., but seems alot of people are facing the same thing and logging complaints over there. Did they increase the electricity/water rate without noticed to public?

By ramyk• 3 Oct 2011 21:49
ramyk

Yep, my dad checked it a couple of days ago and it turned out to be 5,000QR as well :) They probably messed something up

By Bilabong• 3 Oct 2011 21:23
Bilabong

What I noticed on my bill was that a current meter reading had not been taken i.e., number of units consumed were the same as last months. Seems that they billed me based on some sort of an estimate.

By ronald1673• 3 Oct 2011 20:58
ronald1673

 we also have faced similar issue, we received a bill of abt 4000. We were out of the country for about 40 days for vacation to add to that. you should log in a complain at their office. We have logged one and we were told that they would send some to check the meter etc. let's see how it goes

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