Gas & Electricity plus Cashback/MoneySavingExpert.com Discussion

theloft

didsyboy wrote:

Hi Has anyone used https://www.which.co.uk/switch ??
I've tried it and it shows me a saving of £191.90 with NPower. Other comparison sites are much less than that. Must be good reliable site musn't it since it's Which? the consumer champion. Don't know if it includes the latest price increases though. Any thoughts anyone ?

I tried this site as well, thinking that they must give the most unbiased costings. They showed that I would save £234 p.a. by switching to London Energy. Then I checked direct with LE's own website, the savings came out at £35 p.a. I am waiting for Which to get back to me to explain !!!

jem16

theloft wrote:

I tried this site as well, thinking that they must give the most unbiased costings. They showed that I would save £234 p.a. by switching to London Energy. Then I checked direct with LE's own website, the savings came out at £35 p.a. I am waiting for Which to get back to me to explain !!!

The difference is because the comparison sites offer London Energy's online tariff and it is not available anywhere eles including London Energy's own website.

I'm just completeing my move to London Energy Online and their online tariff is very much cheaper than their standard tariff. When I got my Welcome Pack through from LE, it included a leaflet detailing their online prices - these matched energyhelpline.com.

thedriver

kt wrote:

I have just received a notice from Scottish Power that they are upping my payments from £72. to £89! There has been no difference in our useage over the last few years, if anything, it has gone down. This seems an extremely high increase per month. If I change supplier at this time will I face similar large increases from new supplier (bearing in mind the alleged shortage of gas and expected cold winter)?

Same here...just had a letter from Scottish P sayin that my DD of £57 a month is not enough to cover my bill and they are raising this to £73.

I know this is a big jump esp when you take into account I am £150 in credit with them already.....

Time to look at the alternatives me thinks!

alexs_3

Martin's recent e-,mail prompted me to switch gas and electricity supplier (just received final bill for £200 arrears from old supplier - not very welcome at this time of year!) - does anyone know how the £12.50 cashback is paid out by Energyhelpline? Every little helps!

Victors_Bruvver

Victors_Bruvver wrote:

I have today taken Martin's advice to switch electricity provider. I used the energyhelpline.com website and switched from Powergen to British Gas.

However, I am a little concerned that energyhelpline.coms confirmation email only states the following, in tiny tiny letters, regarding the £12.50 cashback mentioned the comparison tables;

"NB. Any special offers will be redeemed or paid once your switch has gone live with your new supplier"

My worry is that a few months down the line I could simply forget that the £12.50 or the free month of electricity from BG has not been credited to my account and then have to prove that they was a cashback in force when I took out the switch. Call me an old sceptic, but has anyone dealt with these companies to switch their energy provider and get a cashback payment?

In reply to alexs; I posted the above on the 28 October expressing my concern. It all certainly takes time to switch over with BG asking for meter readings on the 9 December. However, the good news is energyhelpline have in the last two weeks credited my account with the £12.50 but have not seen a final bill from my old provider yet. When that arrives I will tell them that I do not have it all to hand and will be willing to pay them a regular monthly payment over the next three months. And why not? they have done me no favours in all the years I have been with them!

cardtart_2

energyhelpline pays £12.50 for switching suppliers, quidco pays £13 for using energyhelpline.Does anyone know if you swich using both these sites you will get both lots of cashback

damski_2

this is one of my new years resolutions

have all the price rises gone through now?

Is now a good time to work out the comparisons and switch

thanks in advance

obvious

Just got the letter from British Gas saying that prices are going up from 31st Jan. I'm still in the process of switching to them for electricity but unless I'm missing something, there's nothing to stop me switching again.

Value_Seeker_2

Hi,

Just received an email from GreasyPalm where they are offering a £23.00 cashback for a dual fuel switch to Scottish Power (correct £23.00). And that applies to ScottishPower's new ultra cheap Online Energy Saver product too.

On my reckoning that is way better than any of the cashback deals posted on this website (sorry guys).

To get the cashback you need to go to https://www.greasypalm.co.uk http://www.greasypalm.co.uk and the search for Scottish Power in the search tool (top right of the page). The following link should take you straight there...

http://www.greasypalm.co.uk/search.php?searchfor=scottish%20powerhttp://www.greasypalm.co.uk/search.php?searchfor=scottish%20power

You have to register with Greasypalm to get be able to apply for the offer, but you get another £2.50 just for doing that so it is no bad thing.

I have no affiliation with greasypalm whatsoever (in case you asre wondering), although I'm sure they will love me for this.

Offer is there today (Thursday 26th Jan 06) but no idea how long it will last.

Grab it while you can.

Value Seeker

Ecoman

Does anyone out there know why there is a difference between online and standard (via the telephone) tariffs please? I am with British Gas (dual fuel) and from the comparison I have just done via Martin's link to 'energyhelpline' I could save (Only £56 but better in my pocket than theirs) if I switched to British Gas Online. Are they not one in the same company? I notice that the price per KW is cheaper online than on my latest bill so how come? What's more, is it possible for me to change within British Gas to an online tariff?
Thanks in advance,
Ian.