Think ive made a big mistake

Nicky321

I went on uswitch.com a week or so ago and it showed me i would be better off switching from Npower to British Gas for both my Electric and Gas by £61.00 annually went ahead and started the switching. Got the Direct Debits through yesterday which I filled in and sent back, and the contract... saying they would start supplying my services from 6th October.. all well......no! got up this morning and found out British gas have just put up their prices and are the highest in the country....PANIC!!!! what do i do? Just been on Uswitch.com again and my savings would be £276.00 a year if i went from British Gas to Scottish power manweb, and £67.02 if i go from NPower.

Help please

John_3:16

When did you find BG had put there prices up? I thought that was a while back?

humfer

Nothing to stop you moving again once BG is all set up

a&akay

As posted switch as many times as you want. I'm on my 6th move in a year. You will pay more for final bills for moves in Winter months and less in Summer due to the averaging used for DDs but you will save. Keep track of swap readings on a spreadsheet so you can check that final readings from old supplier and first one from your new one match.

Nicky321

John_3:16 wrote:

When did you find BG had put there prices up? I thought that was a while back?

this morning on TV

Nicky321

humfer wrote:

Nothing to stop you moving again once BG is all set up

but wont I be tied into a 12 month contract? although i gotta admit I havent seen anything.

masonic

Nicky321 wrote:

but wont I be tied into a 12 month contract? although i gotta admit I havent seen anything.

It would depend on what you signed up to, but the only tariffs I'm aware of that had any sort of tie-ins were some of the old price-fixing ones, where there was a penalty for switching before the end of the term.

Personally, I was with BG for only a matter of days before I switched again.

Nicky321

masonic wrote:

Personally, I was with BG for only a matter of days before I switched again.

Im gonna ring them tomorrow and cancel

barnabee

Same happened to me. I am able to cancel my move to British Gas as my contract arrived less than 7 working days ago. Cancellation can be done by telephone but the CS desk is not open until on Sundays. These sites like USwitch are very good at not giving visitors the complete picture. All of my prices quoted for British Gas were based on 1st July 2006 charges.

Nicky321

I rang this morning and cancelled my contract. The lady on the phone said there had not been a price rise today..... so i said yes there has, then she said, we announced it 2 weeks ago, it may take effect from today....duh..... surely its the same thing, their prices have gone up! anyway she tried to make me change my mind by telling me that it wouldnt affect me as I was on the old rate.... and they are gonna cut their electricity prices by 13.8% still went ahead and cancelled.... hope ive done the right thing.... looking at uswitch its showing up as scottishpower manweb is cheapest for me and british gas is no where to be seen, unlike just over a week ago when they were in the top 3

Rikki

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