Consumer Power: Have your say on energy contracts

About every 2 years Scottish Hydro come knocking. The salesman says SH supply the rest of the industry and therefore one must be cheaper buying direct (cutting out the middlemen being the other suppliers); says they are a Scottish company and therefore profits stay in Scotland (the callcentre isn't in Scotland!); says the Scottish Government want people to be with SH.
All he needs is you direct debit amount and he does the rest - calculates your monthly amount and savings with SH, fills in the forms and phones the office for you to confirm the switch. All very easy.
He left the tariffs and I calculated my bills with SH compared to my current supplier, based on my actual usage. Guess what - SH were more expensive. Why? because they conveniently ignore any discounts you get for online management.
I immediately contacted them to complain about mis-selling - the salesman is to be trained properly - and cancelled my contract.
I know my 3 immediate neighbours had signed up and 2 cancelled - unfortunately the 3rd had gone on holiday.

RE: "We think energy misselling is rife and want to pass your stories on to the energy regulator, Ofgem."

What makes you think they will be remotely interested in "mere consumer stories"? It's about time the so called Regulator was obliged to listen to & communicate direct with consumers as at present they seem far to remote & disinterested in the realities of their so called regulation

I became an Eon customer in 2006 when I moved to this council property. At the time Eon was quite competative and I after talking to Eon, they advised that it would be cheaper for me to go on their duel fuel package. I liked the fact of getting everything from one provider and was told their was a discount for this.
I had no idea at this point what my consumption was, as it was my first house, as apposed to a flat, and with 3 children , I was ' told' what this may be roughly and was put on a plan of paying £60 per mth..... I did this for over a year with no issue, then I was written to and asked in increase my payments to over £70, which again i did as advised.
Later that year, out of the blue, I got a letter TELLING me DD had to be amended to £222 per mth, to cover my debt and my ongoing consumption.

I had to later agree to a pre-payment meter to stop action being taken against us on a vey large debt that was accumulated...... me and my partner agreed to what ever was needed to stop action. I had just gone back out to work after maternity leave and couldn't beleive it. 2 yrs + later, were still paying off the debt on these two meters having to put in on average £14 per week per meter into one meter (elec) it's a nightmare

Eon have stopped their standing charge, but even if their is a better supplier, could not change over as we are on a meter and owe debt to our current provider.......