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Ken68

I too would like to see a Consumer led society, Mumbles.
Not just for energy. We have political parties representing business and labour yet none for the end user. I would like to see a boycott on certain goods or companies, not necessarily to just get the price down .

backfoot

mumbles_one wrote: »

Look at it this way, at the moment your bill pays for a complete set of company admin for every company. Less companies = bigger possibility to negotiate lower supply prices. You don't need 6 sets of company buildings and vans and engineers and admin to run 1 network. Its the same as the rail sham , the telephone scam and the water flim-flam. All these companies are all really one company split up to look like competition but in fact are monopolies . If you dig deep enough you always find the reasoning behind doing all this "privatisation" was to reduce prices by increasing competition and not increase prices under the umbrella of competition.

That's what I said, back to square one 'pre privatisation'.

mumbles_one

Ken68 wrote: »

I too would like to see a Consumer led society, Mumbles.
Not just for energy. We have political parties representing business and labour yet none for the end user. I would like to see a boycott on certain goods or companies, not necessarily to just get the price down .

I am with you on this. Do you want to be at no 10 or 11 ???

Ken68

mumbles_one wrote: »

I am with you on this. Do you want to be at no 10 or 11 ???

Martin for No.10.
Concerted action aint far away, what with the internet and social networks.

mumbles_one

So now after 4 months my new company has put up their prices and are no longer cheaper. How does that help me??? this monopoly should be illegal

mumbles_one

mumbles_one wrote: »

I can't understand why immediately a utility company announces a big price rise all its customers don't switch to another company. That would reduce the competition a bit if one or two of them where put to the sword. Because in true competition there has to be some losers. By maintaining too many competitive companies we are losing out on any real competition. Its just like supermarkets, you don't benefit by 100s of small supermarkets competing. You benefit by 3 or 4 really big ones competing and the rest pay the price for charging too much. Come on money experts lets get tough . We did it when politicians were caught making unfair charges on their expenses so why not do the same to all companies acting unfairly?

why is it companies only act when a watchdog company investigates???
what you should do is boycott any company that watchdog investigates especially if they "put things right" . Putting things right when exposed on TV is more of an insult than just sticking up 2 fingers

tori.k

Because a supermarket doesn't lock you in with an exit fee, Our EDF deal will hike in march and no longer be the cheapest option but as we are tied till june 11, after having a look about today most offers on the table are not that great, At best we would save £16 by moving, so not worth the exit fee. i would hazard a guess that very few that have ended up in this section of the forum are still on a standard tariff

mumbles_one

mumbles_one wrote: »

What I really want is to send a message to all utility companies so that they would feel very uncomfortable announcing a rise because all their customers would immediately move and they would instantly go bust. A bit like one of the big 4 supermarkets announcing a 10% rise in all their products. The other three would laugh all the way to the bank.

everyone should just take down British Gas immediately and then the next company who want to announce a rise will think again.

mumbles_one

mumbles_one wrote: »

the "money saving experts" have too much to lose to risk running campaigns against big utility companies.

they are still too scared

duggie1982

mumbles_one wrote: »

everyone should just take down British Gas immediately and then the next company who want to announce a rise will think again.

Yes because the exportation of gas would be reduced for all the for the other companies???? :money: