Scottish Power bailiff letter ...arghh!

nomoneytoday

I saved £300ish p.a. when changing from BG and local electric company to Powergen, then maybe £50pa changing the second time, plus £72 Quidco

The power companies are in an oligopoly, so you can only make the big saving on the first change IMHO. After that the savings will be smaller.

Hintza

tuggy12 wrote: »

Would you kindly post how you can save £300 by switching supplier?

I'm with Scottish Power and cannot find an alternative supplier that would save me anything like that amount.

Hi

Yes legacy supplier about £300 per quarter and I just pumped the figures into one of the comparison sites last night comes up as a 26% saving or £308. Told you they had it easy and have just spoilt it for themselves...

Boss has to phone them first and see what they say. But I have been nagging her for about 4-5 years now to do something about the electricity. The house used to be in her father's name when it was still part of the farm which was one reason it never changed.

tuggy12

Hintza wrote: »

Hi

I just pumped the figures into one of the comparison sites last night comes up as a 26% saving or £308.

So which Company is it that gives you that saving?

Cardew

Hintza wrote: »

Hi

Yes legacy supplier about £300 per quarter and I just pumped the figures into one of the comparison sites last night comes up as a 26% saving or £308. Told you they had it easy and have just spoilt it for themselves...

Did you put in how much you spend, or the annual consumption in kWh to obtain that saving?

Hintza

To cover both questions:-

1st is Npower

Second I input the amount paid on last bill which was £300. The boss doesn't keep the bills very long which caused another small domestic as I work from home and wanted to claim some for my tax bill. :rolleyes:

Magentasue

Hintza wrote: »

To cover both questions:-

1st is Npower

Second I input the amount paid on last bill which was £300. The boss doesn't keep the bills very long which caused another small domestic as I work from home and wanted to claim some for my tax bill. :rolleyes:

You won't get a very accurate comparison using £spent, much less so if using a single bill. You need to work out annual use in kwh - Npower will give you this information if you don't have it.

Cardew

Hintza wrote: »

To cover both questions:-

1st is Npower

Second I input the amount paid on last bill which was £300. The boss doesn't keep the bills very long which caused another small domestic as I work from home and wanted to claim some for my tax bill. :rolleyes:

As said above, feeding that information into a comparison website is worse than useless.

You need to understand that these websites are not there to be public spirited! Their sole aim is to get you to switch to another supplier so they get their commission. So their predicted saving is meaningless.

The only accurate way to find out the true picture is feed in your exact kWh for the year for both gas and electricity.

Hintza

I'm fully aware of that and when ready i'll start to do the calculations, but its a start.

Cardew

Hintza wrote: »

I'm fully aware of that and when ready i'll start to do the calculations, but its a start.

Well if you are aware of that, why post that you can save £308?

Hintza

Cardew wrote: »

Well if you are aware of that, why post that you can save £308?

I'm confused?

I explained what I had done on the price comparison site using the figures I had to hand at the time ie £300/quarter. Inputing that figure gave me a supposed saving of £308. I can and will of course recheck that with actual costs before changing but at this stage it has given me some sort of indication where to look.

Why are you jumping down my throat?