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Door-to-door energy audit convassors

capt. planet
capt. planet
edited November -1 in Crown Heights/Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Has anybody else experienced this?
A guy rang my doorbell this afternoon and asked to sell my electric bill. Of course I declined and not too politely.
If these guys are for real, there's got to be a better way of doing this.

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  • sir_eccles
    sir_eccles

    Subject: Re: Door-to-door energy audit convassors

    Capt. Planet wrote:
    If these guys are for real, there's got to be a better way of doing this.
    Unfortunately they are for real. But you aren't going to save money. Click the link and read all the horror stories...

    http://consumerist.com/tag/idt-energy/
  • capt. planet
    capt. planet
    If anyone has had a bad experience with energy audit companies, consider contacting Michelle George, the District Manager of Community Board 8 at www.brooklyncb8.org or calling her at 718-467-5620.
    This is all very sad as most of the homes in Crown Heights need major energy retrofits and legitimate energy auditors are a scarce and precious commodity. That their good names should be ruined by a bunch of money grubbing con artists is a serious problem.
    The Center for Working Families is working on a proposal to create an energy fund that would pay for retrofiting homes but to be successful a lot of community outreach will be necessary. We don't need scammers giving energy audits a bad name.