I'm looking at this as if it would be all Chinese. Good thing we don't have this system here, but I understand why they have it still over there.
Did you already know these things or are you just finding out now too?
I am finding out now that power is on credit 😳😳😳
Haha I can understand why it might sound gibberish to you.
I’ve read a couple things about systems else where and couldn’t quite grasp what was been narrated.
But yeah…they give us power on credit here. Basically when you run out of power on your card, you can just slot it back in and you’ll automatically be given power on credit to last you maybe a couple of days until you can go to the office to buy some. The thing is just that, many people considered (myself included) that as a sort of a bonus.
In most of the countries you have power and pay the bill later. If you don't pay, you have your power cut off. Simple as that.
It used to be like that here. But now we have two options: pay for the power before you get it (this case is called a prepaid subscription) or they give you power for a month and your usage at the end of the month is calculated and you pay monthly(this case is called postpaid subscription). People had this belief that the postpaid subscription charges were being inflated by the VRA themselves, so most people here use prepaid now.
Interesting. Or strange? 😳 Dunno but good to know.
Wait. You don’t have the option of paying upfront for power over there?
I don't think so, I've never heard of such thing. You have different packages here, different options, based on how much you think you're consuming, so the price varies too.
That system you have was used here between the two world wars and it's possible the prepaid system is still on in the UK, but other than that, I doubt it. Wherever I've been in Europe, have not seen it.
So if I get you right, you can’t really tell the power company how much power you want? It’s water I know people around here pay for like that. You just use and pay the bill at the end of the month.
Mmm. Until now, I thought we all used prepaid and postpaid all around the world. Shocker.