Chile Forum

trabajo en progreso wrote:

MikieO wrote:I try to pay my bills ahead, this way when I'm out of the country things just roll along. This unfortunately means visiting the offices of each utility individually.

We are heading home for a holiday shortly and will be gone most of the month. HUsbands bank account is in the process of being set up and all of the bills that come to our house (utilities/internet etc) are in the owners name, so we can't use the handy feature where you press the magic button and the bills are paid from your account automatically. Normally I just pop down to Servipag and join the queue but of course that won't be possible this month.

Is it possible (i.e. has anyone ever done it themselves) to go to Servipag and take an old bill for the utility/service and just pay the next months bill?

zer0nz wrote:How long is your holiday?

Overdue bills in chile mean nothing (except the internet and phone, these will be cut off on the day of over due, but with a quick trip and payment to the company they are back in in hours),

Servipeg will not accpet payments for overdue accounts, nor pre payment, tried before, pain in butt but you just go to the actual companies office and pay there (for overdue), there is some little fee of like a extra 1%, but we just put this down to a conveniance fee, if you read around i think you will find some threads where people save up the power/water for 3 months then pay, saves a trip to servipeg every month!

My advice, juts pay whats outstanding, and worry about the rest when you return,

zer0nz wrote:How long is your holiday?

Overdue bills in chile mean nothing (except the internet and phone, these will be cut off on the day of over due, but with a quick trip and payment to the company they are back in in hours),

Servipeg will not accpet payments for overdue accounts, nor pre payment, tried before, pain in butt but you just go to the actual companies office and pay there, there is some little fee of like a extra 1%, but we just put this down to a conveniance fee, if you read around i think you will find some threads where people save up the power/water for 3 months then pay, saves a trip to servipeg every month!

My advice, juts pay whats outstanding, and worry about the rest when you return,

trabajo en progreso wrote:

zer0nz wrote:How long is your holiday?

Overdue bills in chile mean nothing (except the internet and phone, these will be cut off on the day of over due, but with a quick trip and payment to the company they are back in in hours),

Servipeg will not accpet payments for overdue accounts, nor pre payment, tried before, pain in butt but you just go to the actual companies office and pay there, there is some little fee of like a extra 1%, but we just put this down to a conveniance fee, if you read around i think you will find some threads where people save up the power/water for 3 months then pay, saves a trip to servipeg every month!

My advice, juts pay whats outstanding, and worry about the rest when you return,

Sorry Z, missed this post entirely

We are away for 3 weeks, Husband is only away for 2 weeks, but is too busy to wait in line at Servipag when he returns. When we come back I will have my mother with me and don't particularly want to stand in line waiting to pay my overdue bills at various service providers offices if it can be avoided, hence hoping to pay it beforehand. Hmmm will have to think some more about how to get around this.

Fingers crossed HSBC get their $*^# sorted and the account is opened and functioning properly in the next couple of weeks...