# Natural gas and electricity price protection program **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [June 16, 2009, 12:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244 "2009-06-16T12:37:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![reval](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/reval/32/5168_2.png) [@reval](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/reval)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/1 "2009-06-16T12:37:09Z")
ok so i hear a ring at my door bell when im in my garage working things. my mom comes and says oh it the natural gas guy . i think nothing of it and keep working. well i hear them talking aboutside for about 8 minutes. so i open the garage up and some older guy in a legit looking uniform badge, uniform and all is sitting on my porch talking to my mom. he has some type of agreement shit in his hand. bells go off in my head saying scam. my mom asks for the paper back and he asks us to rip it. he than goes on to say we come back every five years and leaves. so what is this crap. im calling some type of scam. oh and im asking my mom questions about what he said and asked. she said he wanted to use are phone which i find very disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/2 "2009-06-16T12:39:11Z")
the information is overwhelming. ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/3 "2009-06-16T12:42:20Z")
Maybe or maybe not a scam…there are 3rd party marketers out there that can supply your gas and electric. Some of them do lock in prices for the future. He could have been getting her to try and lock in a too-high price, or it coulda been legit. ---
**Author:** ![reval](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/reval/32/5168_2.png) [@reval](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/reval)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/4 "2009-06-16T12:42:49Z")
guy comes in uniform with a legit looking uniform rings my door bell. mom opens door he talks to her and is trying to get her to sign a agreement on the top of the paper it says Natural gas and electricity price protection program i go outside to see whats going on because my mom thought it was an offical natural gas guy because she had been talking to him for around 8 minutes so i knew something was wrong hes trying to get her to sign because his “badge” did not say any thing about natural gas because i was thinking this has to be some scam. ---
**Author:** ![reval](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/reval/32/5168_2.png) [@reval](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/reval)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/5 "2009-06-16T12:44:21Z")
> [@Joe](#): > > Maybe or maybe not a scam…there are 3rd party marketers out there that can supply your gas and electric. Some of them do lock in prices for the future. He could have been getting her to try and lock in a too-high price, or it coulda been legit. thats what i was exactly thinking. my mom doesnt know what shes reading… you know what i mean ? so i grab the papers from him and rip them in half… he was trying to get her to sign the crap when i was coming out the garage and my mom didnt know what to do. ---
**Author:** ![ericvw7989](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ericvw7989/32/5070_2.png) [@ericvw7989](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ericvw7989)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/6 "2009-06-16T12:45:37Z")
how many times are you going to say you ripped them in half? ---
**Author:** ![LAFENGAS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lafengas/32/7573_2.png) [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/7 "2009-06-16T12:45:45Z")
just based on what you described, i think you were rude. ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/8 "2009-06-16T12:45:52Z")
Why didn’t you actually check out the rates for a sec before you ripped them up? ---
**Author:** ![reval](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/reval/32/5168_2.png) [@reval](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/reval)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/9 "2009-06-16T12:46:17Z")
idk it just reminded me of the shit i see on dateline with those nigerian scammers and what not targeting people who have no idea what they are getting into. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/10 "2009-06-16T12:46:22Z")
Not liking the part about wanting to use your phone. That seems sketchy as shit. But, the rate lock in guys were out in force back when the prices were insanely high. I got into it pretty good with the guy about how it was pretty shitty that they were trying to lock people in at historically high prices using BS scare tactics that it “might” go even higher, especially when most respectable market analysts were saying energy prices were a bubble that was bound to pop (which it did). Makes you wonder how many suckers got locked into that record high rate and are still paying it today when prices have fallen sharply. ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/11 "2009-06-16T12:47:13Z")
why wouldn’t you take two seconds to read what you ripped up so you would know what is going on? ---
**Author:** ![nitroinsane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@nitroinsane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nitroinsane)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/12 "2009-06-16T12:47:32Z")
OH know’s he stole her identity from a signature.Seriously NOBODY FUCKING CARES ---
**Author:** ![Jim1234664](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jim1234664/32/7438_2.png) [@Jim1234664](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jim1234664)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/13 "2009-06-16T12:47:38Z")
sounds like you should have at least asked him who he worked for and shit. sounds like it could have been a scam, however you certainly douched it up just ripping up the forms without a word ---
**Author:** ![reval](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/reval/32/5168_2.png) [@reval](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/reval)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/14 "2009-06-16T12:47:41Z")
> [@LAFENGAS](#): > > just based on what you described, i think you were rude. i do not think so at all . come to find out when i looked at the papers my mom already signed them ! lucky i have the carbon prints too. ---
**Author:** ![reval](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/reval/32/5168_2.png) [@reval](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/reval)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/15 "2009-06-16T12:48:32Z")
> [@nitroinsane](#): > > OH knoe’s he stole her identity from a signature.Seriously NOBODY FUCKING CARES ya a signature tied to an agreement you dumb fuck ---
**Author:** ![nitroinsane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@nitroinsane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nitroinsane)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/16 "2009-06-16T12:49:24Z")
You should of had him check the gas leak… ---
**Author:** ![Jim1234664](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jim1234664/32/7438_2.png) [@Jim1234664](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jim1234664)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/17 "2009-06-16T12:49:44Z")
> [@reval](#): > > i do not think so at all . come to find out when i looked at the papers my mom already signed them ! lucky i have the carbon prints too. looks like your mom cant read or instill manners in her children, double whammy ---
**Author:** ![reval](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/reval/32/5168_2.png) [@reval](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/reval)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/18 "2009-06-16T12:50:09Z")
> [@Jim1234664](#): > > sounds like you should have at least asked him who he worked for and shit. sounds like it could have been a scam, however you certainly douched it up just ripping up the forms without a word ya i seen on his badge who he worked for… wasnt any one i have ever seen… idk maybe i was rude but i didnt wnt to see my mom fucked over because she had no idea what she was signing ---
**Author:** ![JustinH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/19 "2009-06-16T12:50:33Z")
You can always switch to a new provider. The only one I recommend is ECNY, they are a not for profit company. [http://www.ecny.org](http://www.ecny.org) ---
**Author:** ![LAFENGAS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lafengas/32/7573_2.png) [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244/20 "2009-06-16T12:50:53Z")
so you’ve got the papers…what do they say? Scan and post. [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/natural-gas-and-electricity-price-protection-program/69244.md?page=2)