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Is this true?!
I had a representative from Southern Electric knock my door yesterday. Obviously he was trying to get me to move from my current provider Eon but I wanted to know if what he told me was true? Basically, he said that southern electric own the pipes that supply my gas and electric so if I use any other supplier, I will be…
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Help! Edf are going to charge me loads
Hi, Please can someone give me some advice on a tricky matter. I found out yesterday that me and a neighbour had been paying each others electricity bills for over a year as there was a mix up when they labelled the meters in our block of flats. I only found this out as when I got in from work yesterday I had no power and…
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Electricity payment meter mix up
Hi, Please can someone give me some advice on a tricky matter. I found out yesterday that me and a neighbour had been paying each others electricity bills for over a year as there was a mix up when they labelled the meters in our block of flats. I only found this out as when I got in from work yesterday I had no power and…
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Scottish Power Online Energy Saver 5 Vs 6
So I applied via Quidco to switch from Eon to SP Online Energy Saver 5 over a month ago - my Quidco has validated :T yet SP only asked for my meter readings a week ago - I doubled check energyhelpline.com and now they have energy saver 6. Anyway of telling what the units prices are between the two and can I switch to saver…
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Changing Supplier - easiest way to find unit costs?
Hi I want to change supplier but all the comparison sites gives estimated bills (which are never anywhere near reality in my experience). What I woulk like to see is a list of suppliers and the cost per unit of Gas and Electricity. Does anyone know where I can find these listed? Thanks Jane
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Scottish Power and Switching- A few Questions, Please Help!
I've searched through 100's of posts relating to the new tariff being brought out by SP but I can't seem to find the right answers for the questions I have so I am hoping someone can please help :o :beer: I received an email a few weeks back advising me that we will be put onto the new capped rate with SP after our current…
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Tied in for a while - sneaky way out?
I'm on a fixed price deal. Had a look at some comparison sites and it looks like I could be saving a lot and get £60 cashback if I switch to EDF. The problem is there is a fee to get out from my current supplier. I read somewhere though that this cancellation charge doesn't apply if you are cancelling due to moving house.…
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1st time rental who to switch too?
Hi All, I have just moved into my first flat since moving out from the parents and the utilities have been switched over from the previous tenants. Obviously I want to get the best deal so was hoping for some advice. Do I barter with current suppliers (EDF and British Gas) or do I do some switching? All the switcing and…
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Eon
My sister is moving to a rented house on Friday. This will be her first time being responsible for the utilities, so she is unsure about usage etc. As the previous tenant was with Eon, she would like to stay with that company, at least until she has found her feet. Can new customers to Eon, pay by monthly direct debit, or…
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Switching to e-on but very confused. Help!
Hi all. Im in the process of switching to e-on at the moment. When I started the process online I chose the Saveonline standing charge tariff. However now looking at my welcome pack it states that i am on the energyonline extra saver standing charge 14. Just wandered does anyone know if this is the same thing or are they…
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MSE News: Warning for Scottish Power customers on fixed rate deals
This is the discussion thread for the following MSE news story: "Scottish Power is automatically locking customers on its popular fixed rate deal that ends this month onto an expensive capped tariff with high exit fees for those who want out. A high-spending household could be £270 a year worse off by lapsing onto the new…
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British Gas HomeCare - A Lesson !
I have owned my own homes (or part owned with the bank) for 20 years now and have always paid for BG Homecare for the central heating. Following several repairs to an old but generally good Vaillant boiler this spring BG wrote to to say they could no longer ssupport the boiler due to problems with obtaining spares. The…
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Confused re meter owner and supplier
I've just has Southern Electric at the door saying they own our meter (which on research, they do) and that unless we have them as our supplier we will be paying approx 24% extra for our utilities and we were using a third party supplier. Our current supplier has been horrendously expensive and are just switching but now I…
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British Gas Electric Bill Problem
After over a year in the property we have had a bill through for over £5K for electricity. On the bill there are estimated readings other than one recently at the start of July 2009. The bill starts in Feb 2008 with a reading of 363285 E Theres a few dates inbetween with the highest reading being 370823 E The final bill…
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1st Flat - Prepay Meters - HELP!!!!
Hi, This might sound like a rather naive question to ask, but any advice would be greatly appreciated. Myself and my partner are moving into our first flat over the next few weeks. The property will be rented and as such we cannot change the way the the electric and gas is paid for. The landlord has Prepay meters installed…
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British Gas boiler care plans
I am a member of BG priority response plan where for £2.00 a month i get next day (at the latest) call out of engineer to look at boiler if i have no hot water or heating. I joined this as water and heating is exactly what i didnt have due to fault. They also set a discouted fixed fee per repair. I had an engineer out last…
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E-On Prepay?? So why the huge bill??
We moved from Scottish Power as our electricity supplier after 6 months to move to E-on, our final bill being around £5 as we pay with a prepayment meter and this bill covered various small discrepancies. We continued to use our prepayment meter through E-on and have had several meter readings / checks over the past year.…
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eon save online introduced when?
Its useful to log into this forum every so often to keep up to date on my energy supplier and its constant changes, just found out about save online which appears to provide a better discount to my current product, energy online extra saver v14. Does anybody know when this product was introduced? It appears to show a…
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EON - Primary and Secondary Units
Hello :D i'm trying to get my head around my electricity usage so I can be even more MSE and I wondered if any of you guys can help - i don't really get it all you see :rolleyes: I am with EON on the electricityOnline Extra Saver 13 plan as they said it would be the cheapest option for me I pay a monthly direct debit now…
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Storage Heaters not working - please help!
Hello, I've read a few posts about people putting in new storage heaters and them not working properly (drawing power during the day). The responses seem to suggest that the meter may be incorrectly wired. We have storage heaters. They were working fine until our meter got changed. With the new meter the heaters draw power…
