Southern Electric - Fixed Discount 2010

tori2333

Andrea8 wrote: »

Hi,

This is my first post so sorry if I get this a bit wrong...

I'm not sure if this has already been mentionned but you already get a 2% discount on your bills at SE for signing up to online billing. When I spoke to them about the 2010 Fixed Discount tariff last week they told me that signing up to that rate would mean forfeiting the online billing discount that I already have...so not really any better off :-(

Hello Andrea8, this isn't true, it's 2% online discount for signing up for online billing, plus you can have the fixed 2% discount ontop. I do this with a monthly dd and save 10% off both my gas and ele!!! (Just to be clear, 2% online billing discount, 2% fixed rate discount and 6% dd discount = 10%)

tori2333

MoneyMiser wrote: »

Maybe not worse but you haven't got a fixed price tariff. So if SSE increase their prices, which they will do, then your prices will go up as well.

MM

So u know do u?! How do u know, where did u get this info from? can u make a statement? this is all aload of crap!

Francesanne

Ypaymore wrote: »

Fixed Discount 2010

Cheaper energy guaranteed until 2010*

Choose the Fixed Discount 2010 tariff and you can be reassured that your energy prices will be 2% cheaper than our Standard Energy Online tariff.*

This great deal is available if you sign up to dual fuel (gas and electricity) or electricity only, and choose No Standing Charge plus Direct Debit to pay your bills.**

I'm getting so CONFUSED:eek: by all these tariff's and conflicting info., was going to switch from Southern Electric (Argos engergy plus nsa) to e-on but think I will hold off for time being as Martin advises. Don't know what's best to do.

MoneyMiser

tori2333 wrote: »

So u know do u?! How do u know, where did u get this info from? can u make a statement? this is all aload of crap!

Yes they will raise their prices!

Why wouldn't they? Two companies have raised their prices, its only a matter of time till the others follow suit. This happens every time there is a price change. Some companies delay the price increases to try and get more business but eventually they will do.

Have you been living in a cave the past year, have you not noticed the oil prices going up. They have had a dip recently but they will go up even more now with the conflict in Georgia!!

Wake up and smell the coffee :rolleyes:

MM

grafuji

Well I fell for it yesterday and I'm a supposedly literate financial journalist (obviously not a very good one!). I completely agree with all those who say the name of the plan is confusing. Using the words FIXED and 2010 does suggest in some way that the deal is fixed until 2010. Southern Electric you should be ashamed of yourselves. If it's not fixed, just call it Discount 2010, then there is no confusion.

And I was caught out, like others, by the uswitch website which continues to classify this as a fixed deal (are you reading this u switch?). What I really don't understand about this fixed deal which isn't really fixed is why they charge cancellation fees of £100 on this tariff. If it's not a fixed deal, why exactly would I be charged cancellation fees?

Thanks to everyone here for alerting to me to this con. I'll wait a while and look for a deal that doesn't try to penalise me for locking me into a non-fixed tariff.

notbritishgas

grafuji wrote: »

Well I fell for it yesterday and I'm a supposedly literate financial journalist (obviously not a very good one!). I completely agree with all those who say the name of the plan is confusing. Using the words FIXED and 2010 does suggest in some way that the deal is fixed until 2010. Southern Electric you should be ashamed of yourselves. If it's not fixed, just call it Discount 2010, then there is no confusion.

And I was caught out, like others, by the uswitch website which continues to classify this as a fixed deal (are you reading this u switch?). What I really don't understand about this fixed deal which isn't really fixed is why they charge cancellation fees of £100 on this tariff. If it's not a fixed deal, why exactly would I be charged cancellation fees?

Thanks to everyone here for alerting to me to this con. I'll wait a while and look for a deal that doesn't try to penalise me for locking me into a non-fixed tariff.

You have to ask where do uswitch get their information from regarding tariff details, surely they do not make them up?, more likely they get them from Southern Electric, and it speaks volumes that despite Southern knowing about this "mistake" they do not seem to have made much effort to get it removed from uswitch.