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Cheapest off the list, take pictures of your meters, don't worry about it. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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Get your Arse on moneysupermarket.com
That one from the show on the telly.
They do a very good and detailed exposé on almost all the energy 'sellers'.
Things like their customer service.
They have a cost-to-switch calculator too.
And if you sign up for it they'll hound you with emails when tariffs change and you are.paying too much with your supplier.
Edit: they changed their name when they sold the other company.
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/energy-saving-myths ____________________ Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN. |
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Posted: 23:00 - 29 Apr 2018 Post subject: |
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Use uswitch to find the cheapest and then sign up using topcashback.
https://www.topcashback.co.uk/category/gas-and-electricity/
Don't click through from uswitch to the new suppliers website, do all of that through topcashback so that you can get yourself some free money at the same time.
To echo what everyone else has said, just go with whoever is cheapest. There is no reward for loyalty but there are rewards for jumping ship to a different supplier as frequently as you can.
If someone in your household receives the Warm Home Discount Scheme then be aware that you can't get that if you're with some of the smaller suppliers.
[shameless spam] On the off chance you don't already have a topcashback account, feel free to sign up using my referral link:
https://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/sokas
Using my referral link doesn't have any effect on what cashback you'll receive, all it means is I get some free ponds in return for telling you how amazingly brilliant they are. |
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You don't need to know. And they're not suppliers, they're (almost) all just resellers, so you're not going to get cut off. Cheapest, pictures, done. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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+1 to all of the above.
I've switched a few times and it's never been a hassle. Get on MoneySavingExpert, find the cheapest, take photos of the meters and make sure you get cashback if you can ____________________ "Now at inspector level!" |
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My boss spent about 18 months trying to get the outstanding £250 credit balance back off British Gas from when he switched suppliers. In fact, I think he may still be arguing the toss with them now.
He wont however take my repeated advice and keeps phoning them for a periodic argument with an ineffective customer services lackey, rather than simply writing to them once and giving them 7 days to sort their shit out before reporting it to the ombudsman.
The coop are entertainingly incompetant as energy suppliers. I'd recommend them. They are WAY too disorganised to cut you off or anything. I did a clawback on a duplicate credit card payment 12 months ago and they still haven't removed the credit from my account. I've informed them in writing about it too. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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I'm with bulb. Good online service from them, updating meter reads easily and adjusting DD fairly too. Seem pretty transparent with their tariffs too. ____________________ I'm Sam; Northern, Ginger, Lover
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Ed Case wrote: | I've been with First Utility now for three years and keep on checking but can' improve on them up to now. |
+1
Went with Spark Energy few years ago and truly terrible. Website issues, but mainly the billing, kept getting revised bills.
First Utility have for the last 3 years been spot on.
Also, beware USwitch. I found their claims about savings to be pure Disney.
Entered the data, they claimed I could save £800. I did the calculations manually and reckoned it was nearer £140 which was still worth doing, but nothing close to their claims.
Also, when you switch, do NOT pass on your meter readings to your current supplier (assuming the process is still the same). You pass your closing readings to the new supplier.
The new supplier then passes them to the old supplier to give you a final bill.
Seems arse about face, so to cover all angles I passed the closing readings to the old supplier and found that its an industry scam.
The new supplier fiddles the figures they pass to the old, therby claiming some of the usage for themselves. But I shot myself in the foot because I gave the correct readings to the closing (and paid for them). Then the new supplier claimed the opening readings from units I'd already paid for (to the old supplier).
With both parties saying it wasn't their problem (British Gas and Spark).
Essentially Spark lied to British Gas.
Anyway, I lost £40 and just gave up the fight because life is too short.
Assuming the process is the same. Just give one set of readings to the new supplier and then you probably won't get shafted. |
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Pigeon wrote: | Ed Case wrote: | I've been with First Utility now for three years and keep on checking but can' improve on them up to now. |
+1
Went with Spark Energy few years ago and truly terrible. Website issues, but mainly the billing, kept getting revised bills.
First Utility have for the last 3 years been spot on.
Also, beware USwitch. I found their claims about savings to be pure Disney.
Entered the data, they claimed I could save £800. I did the calculations manually and reckoned it was nearer £140 which was still worth doing, but nothing close to their claims.
Also, when you switch, do NOT pass on your meter readings to your current supplier (assuming the process is still the same). You pass your closing readings to the new supplier.
The new supplier then passes them to the old supplier to give you a final bill.
Seems arse about face, so to cover all angles I passed the closing readings to the old supplier and found that its an industry scam.
The new supplier fiddles the figures they pass to the old, therby claiming some of the usage for themselves. But I shot myself in the foot because I gave the correct readings to the closing (and paid for them). Then the new supplier claimed the opening readings from units I'd already paid for (to the old supplier).
With both parties saying it wasn't their problem (British Gas and Spark).
Essentially Spark lied to British Gas.
Anyway, I lost £40 and just gave up the fight because life is too short.
Assuming the process is the same. Just give one set of readings to the new supplier and then you probably won't get shafted. |
Impossible in my case as I have a British gas smart meter. There are quite a few suppliers (sorry, resalers) that won't take you on whith an already installed smart meter for some reason. First Utility being one of them. ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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Posted: 01:09 - 04 May 2018 Post subject: |
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There are various different smart meters and for whatever stupid reasons, not all meters are compatible with all suppliers.
That's a nice real life example of why not to get a smart meter just yet. |
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I've been with Green Star Energy for a year and recently used Money Supermarket to switch to Solarplicity. Green Star then they said they were objecting to the switch because I owed them £200. I paid it, not really understanding how their billing has been working. It was direct debit but doesn't seem to have been taken every month. I emailed them asking them to remove their objection. I now have two on-line accounts, Green Star and Solarplicity, with the contract due to switch on the 26th May, but today I have an email welcoming me onto a revised Green Star tariff.
Incidentally, if they're all saying they sell 100% renewable energy who is buying the dirty stuff which makes up most of the supply? |
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Posted: 10:28 - 19 May 2018 Post subject: |
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The 100% renewable energy sales pitch is to do with how they're spending your money which theoretically influences how the national grid is supplied.
So a more accurate way for them to describe it would be that 100% of the energy they buy is from renewable sources.
They're almost selling you renewable snakeoil. |
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Posted: 11:02 - 19 May 2018 Post subject: |
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When the wind drops, do they refuse to use coal, nukular and gas turbine power?
Who do I pay to ensure that I actually receive electricity? ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 341 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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