Saving on Utilities

Milkmanpat

Looking for savings on utilities with usual sites (Uswitch) etc offered no significant savings, so I rang my current supplier (Npower) to ask what incentive they would offer for me to stay. Result - offered different tarriff with a saving of 27% or £308 p.a.:rotfl:

Plushchris

Care to share what tariff you were on and what they are putting you on?

Standard to SOL14?

Milkmanpat

From Sol10 to Sol 14

Plushchris

I hope for your sake you have done your homework and not just relied on Npower saying that it would save you money. (They arent the most honest supplier in the market)

In my area with average usage SOL14 is 3% more expensive than SOL10

Premier_2

I'd like the new poster to post his annual consumption for gas and electricity and electricity region. That way we could all see if nPower is actually £300 cheaper than the competitors.

I suspect they are not. If we had the data we could all see.

One wonders why, for example, the comparison sites didn't offer up the OP nPower SOL14 as a £300 saving in the first instance.

1carminestocky

If there is indeed a £300 discrepancy between the discontinued SOL10 and the new SOL14 it very much backs up my long-standing argument that online deals can prove to be expensive if you don't keep up with them. Why this should be is to the energy company's absolute shame. Surely people going onto a company's online tariff should reasonably expect that to be continuously the cheapest company tariff? Not so when you have such a dodgy industry as this that is probably more lightly regulated than the banks were pre-end of the World as we know it.

Plushchris

Premier wrote: »

One wonders why, for example, the comparison sites didn't offer up the OP nPower SOL14 as a £300 saving in the first instance.

I would imagine SOL14 was one of the tariffs that were at the top of the results table that the OP said showed no significant savings (probably because there arent any)

OP phones Npower and says hes been looking at switching to save money and low and behold Npower can magicaly save £308!!

Personally I dont believe it, nothing against the OP, its probably Npower making stuff up (as they do)