Ebico??? gas and electric

madnes

I was with EBICO until recently. The property I moved into had PP meters installed. The supplier was SSE. SSE seemed to have a problem in actioning the tarrif switch to EBICO in all took around 4 months however they backdated the tarrifs.

SSE agreed to remove the meters free of charge and installed credit meters.

If you have PP meters I would recommend you leave your current provider and switch to them as they have no Standing Charges.

I found that the EBICO tarrif was not the cheapest on Direct Debit and I switched to EDF for an on-line tarrif.

KimYeovil

madnes wrote: »

If you have PP meters I would recommend you leave your current provider and switch to them as they have no Standing Charges.

Why? Justify your arbitrary suggestion.

Leblanc_2

I have been with them for a number of years, but my last three gas and electric bills were getting far too expensive, despite steps to economise.
I stayed with them despite this because of the service. However, I found that all my more recent calls were being dealt with by Hydro Electric who in turn are part of SSE. I subsequently did a price comparison and this suggested a £270 pa saving.
I have now changed to an alternative supplier who are rated very highly for their service.
I should probably have done this change at least three bills ago, but there is a certain element of inertia, particularly as I expected them to reduce their tariffs like some of the other suppliers have done.
The cheaper pricing suggests that Ebico are not nearly as competitive as they were when I first went with them.
Don't just rely on the figures given by the switching sites. Recalculate your last bill to verify there is an actual saving, which there was in my case.
Given that some advisers are saying that energy prices are about to rise again, I went for a fixed price, but was still considerably cheaper than Ebico.

madnes

KimYeovil wrote: »

Why? Justify your arbitrary suggestion.

Hi,

I don't believe I have anything to Justify.

Ebico charge you the same price regardless of how you pay them.

Premier_2

Leblanc wrote: »

...Given that some advisers are saying that energy prices are about to rise again, I went for a fixed price, but was still considerably cheaper than Ebico.

Gas prices are linked to the price of oil. Electricity is linked largely to that of gas since so much is produced from gas fired power stations.

I saw yesterday that oil plunged below the $70 a barrel from recent values of about $80 - $85 (notwithstanding the fact that the £ is only about $1.46 compared to about $1.50 recently). The lowest oil price since early October 2009.

Not sure why some advisers are contemplating rises at this time... but there will always be the odd doom & gloom mongerer, I suppose; typically they are quoted by one of the tabloids on a no news day.