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USWITCH..UNRELIABLE ????
??? I am with SWEB ENERGY and USWITCH told me i could save loads by moving to POWERGEN and my new annual combined gas and electric would be £700. I then did another search on USWITCH pretending i was actually with POWERGEN with an annual bill of £700 and USWITCH results came back to say I could save money by switching to…
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LPG Domestic Fuel
There is a lot of talk about saving money with mains gas suppliers. But what about rural users who do not have access to mains gas supply. I use LPG for my central heating and hot water, I continually have to haggle with my suppliers over prices (per/litre). I have trawled the www looking for some sort of LPG users…
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Capped price price increase
As you are aware, scottish power offer a capped price tariff, which guarentees customers that their prices will not go up until the end of december 2005. however, they used to charge 5p per product per day (a charge to keep prices capped) = £36.50. this figure has now been increased to 6.5p per product per day = £47.45. So…
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Estimated Bills
As most of the Utility companies are raising their prices many of us will get bills that estimate consumption before and after the date of the price increase. It will pay to check your next bill if my experience is anything to go by. I have 4 accounts with British Gas(2 x gas, 2 x elec). They increased their gas prices wef…
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Npower Gas
Just received a letter today from Npower GAS saying that the increase will be 12p a day, but will be frozen during all of 2005.
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Is it time to switch from British Gas yet?
I know that Martin's recommended waiting before switching, but I also know that I am paying more for my gas through BG from this week, so is there an interim solution? Does anybody know whether there is a minimum contract term when you switch? If not, I could switch now, and again in a month or so... (I'm sure that won't…
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Ideal - Lloyds TSB's power deal
Sign up to Lloyds IDEAL power product and they'll give u 25 pounds off the 1st bill. Join B4 30 Sept 04. Applies to gas+elec, or either gas or Elec. 0800 444 286 Source: Goldfish junk mail. Pak
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British Gas 3* Servicing
I have the annual BG 3* servicing contract - with which I am very happy. I have BG to supply gas and Electricity - with which I am very unhappy! If I switch suppliers does this mean I will have to look for a company for a new servicing contract?
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Electricty key meter tariff differencial credits?
I have an electricty key meter which is owned by Seeboard. However, my electricty supplier is British Gas and the "key" that tops up my meter is owned by British Gas and sends the payments to them when I top up with credits in a retailer. Here lies the problem.......... My Seeboard meter is "ticking down" the credits at a…
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Scottish Power Prepayment Customers
Hello All, I've just spoke with Scottish Power Customer Services about the price hike due in October. They have told me that customers who are currently on the prepayment scheme ie buying the £5 cards will not see a price rise. Hope this is correct
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POWERGEN...advice please!
Hi Everyone, I read this borard regularly and hardly ever see anything written about Powergen! I did a 'u-switch' check a month or so ago and it came up as Powergen being the cheapest supplier to my house. I was previously with British Gas for both my Gas and Electricity. My transfer goes through in the next few days. I…
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First time home buyer. Advice please.
Hi all, this is my first post on the site. Me and my wife are recently married and have just purchased our first home. Well to the the point now, we're looking on saving money in the basic areas, Gas, Electric and water, who are the best/cheapest suppliers? Also who is the cheapest for telephone? We will be paying all of…
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Electricity Card Meter.... cheaply?
I've recently started renting an apartment in East Yorkshire, but the electricity runs on a card meter, and the electric heating runs on storage heaters (not much use when I work 9-5). Is there any way of cutting down the cost of using the meter? Any way of avoiding huge costs from the storage heaters? Vikki
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Gas & Electricity Price Analysis?
In the light of recent advice regarding large increases in various utulities' pricing, I wondered if anyone knew of any recent comparisons available to help one decide whether or not to switch to a cheaper / different supplier? Cheers ???
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Energy saver candle bulbs
Does anybody know where I could find a website to buy six of these BC 11 watts, please? I saw a website at £4 each but they are a bit fancy and I would prefer the normal one. Thanks.
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energy charged by no. of rooms
anyone have any details on the company that charges for energy by the num of rooms and num of people in the house ???
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Hello, I am from a government agency, we're not...
Aggghh! For the sixth time, I got a visit from a a rep from a government agency saying "We're not selling anything" They all seem to be knocking on houses in our area, and this is the sixth time. They are all scruffy, have pants sales technique, tell you a load of rubbish. They basically try to say how they can get the…
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Gas Boiler Plan?
I have a gas combination (water & heating) back boiler. I think it might be playing up and I'll probably need a new boiler soon. Is there some sort of plan, or heating insurance thing that I could do to get a replacement boiler ASAP without having to pay the full cost?
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Scottish Hydro Electric (SWALEC)
At the beginning of the year I tried to switch suppliers to Npower. Waste of time as it didn't go through despite my many phone calls. I am about to try it again and according to two comparison sites SWALEC appears to be a good bet. Any thoughts? What's the customer service like? Cheers
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Moving/getting rid of prepayment meter ?
My brother has just brought his 1st property and is planning to move in ASAP. However, it has a prepayment/coin/key meter installed and he wants to replace it with a "proper" meter. However, when he rang up London Energy they told him that as the property had been empty for more than 3 months before he brought it - they…