Gas/electricity switching
Posted by: Steve Bull on 27 February 2006
Trying to shave a few pounds of the bills, I've just been looking at the uswitch site to do some comparisons. Selecting results by service quality, the winner is Scottish Power who say thay can save me just under £80 pa and get a 3* (of 5) rating for service. Going by price alone, npower can save me £145 but get a 2* rating.
Any experiences with either company? Should I be worried about using npower and saving just over 20% on my bills?
Steve.
Any experiences with either company? Should I be worried about using npower and saving just over 20% on my bills?
Steve.
I am moving from scottish power, these creamers have taken the piss too many times in my estimation with price increases.
They offered me a capped price offer, until I saw through it, they would have me paying "x" amount per month to fund this price cap, the fact is I don't want my prices going up, all I would be doing by taking the price cap is paying now for intervening price increases, no way pal.
The thing too about price cap is that you're tied into a twelve month contract, other terms and conditions apply blah blah blah.
Finally, am I the only one to thing that we're being taken as suckers by the energy companies?
I mean, BG announce that they have to raise charges because they are paying more for supplies, they don't ofcourse tell you how much they're paying, but then sometime later they reveal record profits! ofcourse the profits are money made on the initial increases in people's bills.
Makes my blood boil, they will not carry the hit of a loss on one increase, yet tell you " you're so important to us " you're so important that they will watch you walk to another supplier with your £1000 yearly bill or whatever it is
They offered me a capped price offer, until I saw through it, they would have me paying "x" amount per month to fund this price cap, the fact is I don't want my prices going up, all I would be doing by taking the price cap is paying now for intervening price increases, no way pal.
The thing too about price cap is that you're tied into a twelve month contract, other terms and conditions apply blah blah blah.
Finally, am I the only one to thing that we're being taken as suckers by the energy companies?
I mean, BG announce that they have to raise charges because they are paying more for supplies, they don't ofcourse tell you how much they're paying, but then sometime later they reveal record profits! ofcourse the profits are money made on the initial increases in people's bills.
Makes my blood boil, they will not carry the hit of a loss on one increase, yet tell you " you're so important to us " you're so important that they will watch you walk to another supplier with your £1000 yearly bill or whatever it is
quote:Originally posted by manicatel:
About 18mths ago, I did the uswitch exercise, & scottish power came out best. I was previously using npower. About 6 mths later, one of the other mob came to our door, said he could save us money if we switched blah-blah blah. "Who are you presently using", he asked, & I replied "scottish power". Ah, he said. "In that case, I'll go now, they are the cheapest".
We've been happy enough with them, I guess the price of all existing mainstream fuels will spiral, & I think that to a degree it depends on where you live as to who is the cheapest for you.
On the same theme, "talk talk" landline phone system (run by the carphone warehouse" are much cheaper, (with no degredation of service) than dear old BT.
matt.
Hi Matt, your quote about talk talk, does that just work out cheaper as long as it is another talk talk customer you're calling? just that I heard this, so if you were a talk talk customer and you called me ( bt ) it would cost you more talking to me than a person on the talk talk network? just curious
Thanks Derek
So no matter how long you're on the phone for it costs 4p? with the 18866? that sounds worth looking into.
So no matter how long you're on the phone for it costs 4p? with the 18866? that sounds worth looking into.