Thursday 4th March - what small DFW things have you done today?

Former_E.ON_Company_Representative:_Malc

Cleosmum wrote: »

I was looking at the Fix Online v6 but you cant have clubcard points with it booooooo! If I switch my elec to Eon and do dual fuel I can apparently save £676 a year but for gas alone its a mere £146.....

Malc, has the Price Protection r3 thing finished? I hadnt even heard of capping until Martin started going a bit nuts on it......now I cant find any suggestions on which is best!

Hello again Cleosmum

I'm afraid that's right; Fixonline 6 is one of the products that doesn't earn Tesco Clubcard points. Sorry about that.

Price Protection R3 ends on 1 May 2011. It was only available to customers who were on one of the capped products which ended last year.

If you were on one of these, then you will have automatically been put on R3 unless you told us otherwise. This is because we try and put customers on similar products when an existing agreement ends, provided one is available that is. A letter will have been sent advising this.

As R3 guarantees not to increase prices before the end date it, like most of our capped tariffs, carries an initial premium above our standard prices. Therefore, it is not the cheapest currently available.

However, I wouldn't have thought it was as great a saving as £676 per year. I would just double check this. Enter your annual usage in kWh rather than a monthly spend figure, this will give you a more accurate result.

Give us a call or send an email to the address on the left if you are not sure what your annual usage is. Will be happy to tell you.

Hope this answers your query, Cleosmum; give me a shout if you are still unsure as will be happy to help.

Malc

WelshWoofer

Afternoon/evening all!

Hope everyone is well?
My feet are absolutely killing me! I've discovered that teaching kn*ckers your feet - I wear flatish shoes and try to sit when I can but my feet and back are shot! Need some sleep too....but all is going well so mustn't grumble!

Today's list...

• Breakfast at home
• Took lunch to work
• Will make storecupboard tea
• Walked dog (with sore feet) x2 - one more to go
• Do a load of washing and dry on airer/radiators
• Think about a shopping list for Sat and associated mean plan
• Write two lessons tonight - easyish ones so shouldn't take too long
• Stay in and watch 5 Days - am intrigued, just can't work out whodunnit!
• Have a bath and soak poorly feet and do a body scrub -am feeling bumpy!

That's it for today - have no more energy!

Cleosmum

E.ON_Company_Representative:_Malc wrote: »

Hello again Cleosmum

I'm afraid that's right; Fixonline 6 is one of the products that doesn't earn Tesco Clubcard points. Sorry about that.

Price Protection R3 ends on 1 May 2011. It was only available to customers who were on one of the capped products which ended last year.

If you were on one of these, then you will have automatically been put on R3 unless you told us otherwise. This is because we try and put customers on similar products when an existing agreement ends, provided one is available that is. A letter will have been sent advising this.

As R3 guarantees not to increase prices before the end date it, like most of our capped tariffs, carries an initial premium above our standard prices. Therefore, it is not the cheapest currently available.

However, I wouldn't have thought it was as great a saving as £676 per year. I would just double check this. Enter your annual usage in kWh rather than a monthly spend figure, this will give you a more accurate result.

Give us a call or send an email to the address on the left if you are not sure what your annual usage is. Will be happy to tell you.

Hope this answers your query, Cleosmum; give me a shout if you are still unsure as will be happy to help.

Malc

I used moneysupermarket to get the price and used kWh based on a quarter bill which is how I get them, as there wasnt an annual amount on my online account. I think the electric side didnt help as I have no idea what I use as SE are useless, dont remember the last time I had a proper bill, so just add how much I pay monthly in £. Gas alone it said £146 saving a yr.

Thanks for the help Malc, will mull it over

Pippilongstocking

Cleosmum wrote: »

I could probably save a huge wedge as I dont really keep an eye on what we use, if I want stuff on then its on, if I want the heating on all day and all night then I just switch it on and leave it. The last month I have tried to turn the rads down 1 and switch off heating in the day.

We had storage heaters years ago, awful things, and my bruv has them now and they are next to useless. My bruvs store through the night and chuck out heat during the day, by 8pm they are cold. Im sure they need tweaking as ours werent that bad, we used to get heat til about 10pm. Anyhooo we were told that the only real option was economy 7, but we are talking about 14 yrs ago!

Yeah - new house is all storage heaters
I can hardly wait (ironic sigh here) but the alternative is oil which is just going up and up

You might want to think about an energy owl or something similar - mines has repaid my money on it 5 times over - especially as I know exactly how much the house 'ticks' over at (3.2p) when everything but the fridge/freezer are off

With kids in the house, random visiting kids, lodger, me (I am the worst for leaving the water heater on (its 45p/hour!!!!!)) - its made my life so much easier and we've knocked our bills down to the real basics (although I still spend £85 a month)

Rachel - have a lovely soaK!!

catmiaow

Cleosmum wrote: »

Im sad, I really like Eon lol. Ive had bad experiences with EDF and British Gas so would never touch them, and Southern Electric are just appalling, I cant wait to leave them! Its Eon all the way, and I am loving my new online tool too. I am just so sad!

Have you looked on Eons website? They have so many different tariffs, there is bound to be a similar one that lets you collect points

EDF customer services are so much nicer than EON though....Plus its a free phone number!!

nomorespending

hello everyone!! hope you have all have al had a productive day.

Triangle - BIG WELL DONE!!! thats amazing - half a stone , brilliant! I've done three days of SW now and have stuck to it 100% I'm trying so hard that i'm dreading mondays weigh in , incase i haven't lost any weight and its only my first week! Have written everything down!! So so pleased for you doing so well - keep it up!

Small DFW done today - took baked pot and beans that I made for tea last night and didn't eat and had for lunch today.
Got petrol from tesco instead of more convenient place so i got points
did 3 hours overtime= £60 to go against debts until OH said that doglets are in need of food - boo to them eating my debt money!! SO spent £30 on doglet complete - big sack for giant dog of pets at homes own brand ( anyone know of a cheaper one? ) and small sack of puppy biscuits for the baby!! £30 in total.

Am so so so loking forward to 8pm tomorro night as off all weekend after that and am struggling as have been doing loads of overtime in the last few weeks and its really taking it out of me but I keep thinking about how it will be to be debt free - i really can't actually imagine how it will feel - i just know it will be good and work every hour of overtime.

!!!!! cats have finally given up having a strop and are now eating the tesco crunchie biscuits whcih cost about a third of the whiskers!! yey!!

car sharing ahain tomorrow - whihc is code for OH driving and using his petrol!! ha ha ha... only used my car once this week so feeling pleased.
Incase anyone is thinking i'm a meanie to my other half i am nice really - we have joint debt which we are sorting out together - i earn lots more so i'm throwing everthing at the debt and hes having cheap bread and agreeing to sell our united tickets ocaisionally and using his car lots to help out. Hes also posting all my ebay stuff so is being a bit of a star really.

I'm sorry for the long waffle... I hope noone minds ( at least i'm always at the end of the day so most of you are spared!!)

see you all tomorrow - nightie night

pixiechick99

:spam: Reported....go away, keep out of our thread!!!

Pippilongstocking

Well done on holding out on the cats nomorespending!!!!

That could save you a bit -

Milly well done on slaying the spam

Cleosmum

catmiaow wrote: »

EDF customer services are so much nicer than EON though....Plus its a free phone number!!

Sadly not in my experience, I have had about 18 months of hassle to sort out for my mum as they keep erroneously transferring her gas and elec from BG. Getting quite sick of it now, you ring them up, they apparently take notes, then they claim they have never spoken to you. Thankfully BG have been on the ball each time and have taken the account back for us. Having said that BG were just awful when we had them and I personally would not use them again. I havent ever had to speak to EON, they have just been FAB and never given me cause to ring them, even better now I can do it all online