Thread: EDEMET Requires Proof by July 31, 2011 to Continue to Receive Discount

Edemet has printed on the top of this last month's bill that if you are receiving a discount on your first 600 Kw of 25% you need to prove that you are intitled to the discount at one of their offices before July 31, 2011.

In other words, you need to go to an "official" office and show them your pensionado/cedula and current passport. They updated info in the system and printed 4 pages. The person that is on the account signs 2 pages and they will give you the other 2 for your records. The person who has the pensionado name on the account must be there in person to sign.

Also, while there it won't hurt to ask for your password for the website www.ufpanama.com so you can look at your bills online.

Mary
www.whypanama.com

Not on my bill (May 17) - I get it by email every month.

From what I understand it is on the delivered bills. I have friends in Chorrera and Altos that had them on their bills that are hand delivered. I also get mine off the internet and it wasn't there either. I am not taking any chances of having to go through all the paperwork again!

Mary
www.whypanama.com

That's the idea of Panama - the whole concept was invented here. Keep information confusing and torture people with paperwork so they give up and just pay the regular rate. Surely the $250 annual saving will be gone after spending hours with their support staff in the office.

Hey Ed!

Both friends were in and out in about 10 minutes or less!! I am going to Penonomee tomorrow to do our stuff and I'll let you know how it goes. It is a big plus to get my husband off his hill also (LOL)!!

Mary

Small town life is not Panama City life. I was in the Via Espana office about a year ago and almost died in the process.

Based on your posts I have adviced my friends who live in the Farallon area to re-register their cars in Penonomee instead.

Actually that is part of my trip tomorrow to Penonomee to get plates for the PT Cruiser (LOL)!

Mary

Ed:

Went to the Edemet office this morning to show proof we are still alive and kicking (LOL)!!

Very easy. Showed them our passport and visa. They updated the computer with the new passport numbers and then took a copy showing our NIS number on the copies. They updated the computer while I was there and in the notes section of our account they noted that Matt had been there personally and they received new copies of his passport and visa.

Mary
www.whypanama.com

this is entirely correct, except they never sent a notice to any of the people i know, they just removed the discount on this months bill, so now this month's discount has been spent on transportation, standing in line, making copies, correcting bills and making sure to follow-up with all the mistakes they will make and credit errors on next month's bill where they will try to fk things up so bad you will regret ever asking for a fkn discount in first place.

according to the lovely, honest and panamanian management team their profit strategy for 2011 has worked out well and they are itching to open the bonus envelop towards x-mas. their plan for next year is to go after educational institutions and hospitals for poor people, by forcing them to make unnecessary system upgrades.

all in line with the only way panamanians know for creating value in society.

their 2013 strategy is being worked on right now. it involves raping little children and forcing all clients to go to 4 offices to pay the bills and bring notarized copies of some random documents. top management is actively working on eliminating all copy machines in a 2 mile radius around the selected offices. as a backup plan they are looking at requiring the copies to be on legal paper, but only at the last processing center, mandating the client to start over at first center each time. as of current reports, late fees will stay the $2000 per month with mandatory skull fcuks at the lower level parking, that takes 45 mins to leave since worker has to walk 2 miles each time a client asks for a receipt.