Free solar panels? Don't get fooled

[MrDawn]

What are your thoughts about this?

Retirement for 82-year-old Bernard Mosley and his 75-year-old wife Tasa means staying on a budget. So, when a man knocked on their door in Dumbarton Oaks pitching solar panels in December Mosley initially said “no, thank you.”

“I told him we don’t have money to purchase it. He said there’s a government grant and he says, “It won’t cost you anything.’” said Mosley.

Intrigued, Mosley invited the man in and then his colleague, a woman with Solar Bros, who asked if she owned her home. He said yes.

“Then she said, ‘Oh a government grant is gonna cover everything.’”

“Did she say why the government would want to give you grants to give you free solar panels?” asks Amy Davis.

“She said it was a test. It was a test that the government was checking the solar panels as far as productivity, etc,” said Mosley.

In exchange the Mosley’s say the salesperson told them they would have lower electric bills. The couple remembers signing one document that day. And then another page, she just wanted an initial. They read it but they didn’t get a copy.

City inspectors posted permits and paperwork on their home and the panels went up within a few weeks. But after that first initial meeting the Mosley’s were never able to reach that helpful salesperson again.

‘Free’ solar panel promise leaves couple with huge bill

You’ve probably seen the ads on TV and online, that you may qualify for free solar panels. One elderly Houston couple took the bait and then called KPRC 2 Investigator Amy Davis when they realized they’d been hooked, tricked into paying tens of thousands of dollars for those so-called free panels.

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[DrLeftover]

The price of "free" keeps going up.... and really, does the Government ever give anything to the regular people?

 

[passenger]

What are your thoughts about this?

 

[Nebulous]

What does that mean, hard to tell what its doing.

Anyway, I read the article and it looks like the company is going to remove their panels and void their contract. Me thinks they are only doing that because this story has media attention.

 

[passenger]

What does that mean, hard to tell what its doing.

That means me sticking a pin in a Voo-Doo doll that represents the creeps who are conducting scams like this that, theoretically, will bring the scoundrels much pain.

 

[MrDawn]

That means me sticking a pin in a Voo-Doo doll that represents the creeps who are conducting scams like this that, theoretically, will bring the scoundrels much pain.

Anyway, I read the article and it looks like the company is going to remove their panels and void their contract. Me thinks they are only doing that because this story has media attention.

I think the company removed them without a fuss because they are getting bad publicity for it and with bad publicity comes back lash and a loss of trust from their customer base. They made the right decision by voiding the bs contract and removing the solar panels.