Eon launch of FixOnline v6

Five year fix please until 1st April 2015.

Tier 2 including Online Discount and VAT

Electricity 7.69p
Gas 2.4p

Plus Dual Fuel Discount 2%, Direct Debit 6%
No Tesco Club Points

Keep your eyes on the futures contracts, and buy them when you
can underwrite that price and still make a profit.

I see the short term panning out this way:

End of October 2009 FixOnline 4
End of December 2009 FixOnline 5, £35 cheaper than 4
End of February FixOnline 6, £35 cheaper than 5
End of April FixOnline 7, £35 cheaper than 6
Prices steady, then start climbing from October .

Assuming the lowest point for the long term contracts occur on the Ides of March, you can only conceivably offer products based on them in April. I will therefore wait till April, in the hope of a five year fix, and then pay the £30 penalty to switch to 7 on 1st May, bitter and disappointed.

This is just a ruse, of course. EON knows I am waiting for a cheaper 7, so 6 will be the cheapest, and by the time 7 comes out, it will be too late to switch to 6. So I pay £30 penalty to switch to 6 on 1st March. Then Eon will bring out FixOnline Spring 2015 end of April, so I am forced to pay another £30 penalty to switch to Spring 2015. By wrong footing me, EON will have gained £60 in penalty, very clever.