Recent round of price increases - have all companies done it?

happyflea

Has BG increased Click Energy 5 prices recently or are they going to do so in a few weeks or so?

Says in today's Times that -

"Last month npower and ScottishPower became the last of the big six energy suppliers to raise prices this summer..."

and

"Ann Robinson of uSwitch.com says: “It is a difficult one to weigh up. People should be cautious about fixing now, as this round of price rises has finished and prices are unlikely to rise again until February or March."

Comparison sites tell me I'd be £250 better off with BG Click Energy 5. Looks too good to be ture. Currently on Npower SOL8. But don't want to change to BG if will be worse in a few weeks. Could someone on Click Energy 5 tell me if your prices went up recently?

Thanks

1carminestocky

Click 5 is still pre-increase but the increase won't be long in coming, I reckon. I believe Eon and BG are playing a waiting game with their online tariffs, both waiting until the other makes a move. Long may it continue, BG IME are so utterly inefficient they may totally forget to increase Click 5, so shhhh...don't remind them, lol..

classact_2

1carminestocky wrote: »

Click 5 is still pre-increase but the increase won't be long in coming, I reckon. I believe Eon and BG are playing a waiting game with their online tariffs, both waiting until the other makes a move. Long may it continue, BG IME are so utterly inefficient they may totally forget to increase Click 5, so shhhh...don't remind them, lol..

If we decided to switch from npower SOL8 to BG Click Energy 5, we'd inform npower and get the old prices pre the price changes for 65 days or whatever it is. We'd switch to the BG tariff in the meantime. If the BG tariff then increased, could we do the same as with npower and switch again getting another 65 days of BG's old prices?

DavidRossitter

I am thinking of doing precisely this as well - if anyone can see a flaw in this then let us know!

sillygoose

happyflea wrote: »

"Ann Robinson of uSwitch.com says: “It is a difficult one to weigh up. People should be cautious about fixing now, as this round of price rises has finished and prices are unlikely to rise again until February or March."

I wouldn't depend too much on the advice of someone from uswitch, all comparison sites make a commission every time someone switches so inherently they hate price fixing deals as it locks people out of switching so often - they don't make any money then.

I am still wondering myself if its worth switching to BG click 5, isn't there a 14 cooling off period before the switch is actually got under way? By the time the actual switch happens the price may have already gone up. If not I would be on it such a short time as to be meaningless.

[Deleted User]

ebico hasn`t increased. Good on them

penrhyn

But Southern have so its just a matter of time before Ebico are forced to.

DGJsaver

sillygoose wrote: »

I wouldn't depend too much on the advice of someone from uswitch,

They probably arent far wrong in what they say in that quote though...

Cardew

A point of clarification on the 65 days.

Suppliers have up to 65 working days(3 months) after the date of the price rise, to sent you formal notice of the rise. You have 14 days then to inform then you intend to leave and you revert to the pre-increase tariff.

If they send you formal notification after, say, 5 days, then you have 14 days from that date(ie. not 65 working days)

[Deleted User]

but they have not increased yet penrhyn and that was in response to the opening post

pat on the back for ebico for not jumping in like the other suppliers