pre payment meters

KimYeovil

Stuart_W wrote: »

Ebico are always worth considering for prepayment customers.

Not if you are spending £35 per week they are not.

Stuart_W

KimYeovil wrote: »

Not if you are spending £35 per week they are not.

True, certainly, if you are spending £35 a week, every week, all year.
But £35 a week just during the coldest months if different. Very few deals will actually even out over the year to be much better that Ebico for low to medium users.

Many prepay deals have a £3/week or higher standing charge. Our entire usuage from Spring to Autumn worked out at less than £3/week with Ebico. The trick is to be organised and if you can, building up credit on the meter over the summer helps to cover the shock of the winter cost.

Do follow the advice on here - use a price comparison, I think npower's prepayment tariff for high users is one of the better ones.

londonirish_3

well this week my npower prepayment has had £35 on it, iv got a hideosly old behind the fire boiler, last week it took £35. and this is not me having heating on fll blast, we heat for an hour am, and for 3 odd hrs eve. my housing now admit the back boiler is so costly that they are removing them from all hosing !!! houses.

shirleymarye

I have a British Gas pre payment meter,installed in August,I live in a small one bedroom flat and in August I was paying about £1.50 a day for gas, it's for heating,hot water and cooking,now I am paying about £4 a day because it's been so cold here in Scotland,yes I could turn it down a bit but I am pensioner with diabetes and hate to be cold. My gas boiler is about 20 years old and the housing assoc wont change it until it packs up! My electricity is quarterly and is about £80 every 3 months. You have to decide if you want to be warm or not I guess?