Budget energy

Golden_Anemone

RTNI wrote: »

Had a thought about this last night - does it say anywhere on the bill that the defect will be taken by DD and on what date?

No mention anywhere on the bill of the deficit being collected outside of the normal DD arrangements.

Golden_Anemone

parkmoy wrote: »

Just switched to Budget and looking forward to some good savings. One thing though, what's the easiest/quickest way of checking their prices against the other 2 to make sure I'm still saving?

All companies have their tariffs on their websites. And I'm pretty sure if there's a change in terms of whose the cheapest it will be posted here fairly sharpish. lol

RTNI

Got my bill through there, we are £12 odd in credit with BE. Now I need to read through the T&C's etc again to see about how they/we can alter the DD amount that they calculated if at all possible at this stage.

I too am interested to know how they calculated how many units to charge at what rate, I can't remember if I emailed / called in with a meter reading before the change over!

spike7451

Went to top up yesterday where I normally do & couldn't as they are no longer PayZone,so I had to top up online.Simple & easy to do plus,unlike the old NIE/PowerNI top up,BE send you an e-mail with your top up details for your records.

hazelc56

spike7451 wrote: »

Went to top up yesterday where I normally do & couldn't as they are no longer PayZone,so I had to top up online.Simple & easy to do plus,unlike the old NIE/PowerNI top up,BE send you an e-mail with your top up details for your records.

Hey spike, just wondering... if they arent Payzone anymore what are they?...I mean can we buy electricity in shops perhaps if they are on the Paypoint system?
If not then that means the minimum top up amount would be £10.
Is it just the outlet in your area or do you mean that Budget has stopped using the payzone method??
Although i usually top up online i felt assured by the payzone outlets, just in case i didnt have enough cash and needed to top up a fiver.
If this is the case i might just ring them and give them a peice of my mind.
Thanks

Ex-Spendaholic

I have a Budget Top Up card and a Firmus Gas one. I find that I have to do go to 2 different retailers in order to get them topped up. Bit of a nuisance to be honest, although in fairness both retailers are closeby. I know that I could do the Budget one online but I do actually prefer paying for electric and gas with cash on a weekly basis.

Tesco_Tom

Is it possible to change from Power NI keypad to Budget and start paying by DD?

Northern_Rock

They don't actually offer Quarterly billing by single direct debit though which i prefer,never liked the idea of paying in advance for bills so will stay where i am for now till another provider can offer that.Budget also wanted a deposit even if paying by direct debit!

spike7451

hazelc56 wrote: »

Hey spike, just wondering... if they arent Payzone anymore what are they?...I mean can we buy electricity in shops perhaps if they are on the Paypoint system?
If not then that means the minimum top up amount would be £10.
Is it just the outlet in your area or do you mean that Budget has stopped using the payzone method??
Although i usually top up online i felt assured by the payzone outlets, just in case i didnt have enough cash and needed to top up a fiver.
If this is the case i might just ring them and give them a peice of my mind.
Thanks

Hi Hazel,

Sorry I missed this post,Budget use Payzone to top up & they don't work with other methods like Pay Point or Post Office.According to Budgets website,my local newsagent was Payzone but they switched when they became a sub post office as well,which was well over 2 years ago.
At the moment the is no where in my town I can top up,so it's either by phone or online,which isn't much use if I've only got £9.99 in my account..:mad:

I fired off the E-Mail below;

Hi,

Found yesterday that the Corner Newsagent is no longer Payzone either,so the are now no shops in my town where I can top up my electricity,which negates any savings I am making if I have to drive over to Bangor to top up.

You should really thing hard about switching to Pay Point,I cannot fathom why Budget decided to use Payzone which is hardly used anywhere.

Regards,

And got this reply;

Hi Spike7451,



Thank you for letting us know - we will update our records accordingly.



Thanks & kind regards,

hazelc56

spike7451 wrote: »

Hi Hazel,

Sorry I missed this post,Budget use Payzone to top up & they don't work with other methods like Pay Point or Post Office.According to Budgets website,my local newsagent was Payzone but they switched when they became a sub post office as well,which was well over 2 years ago.
At the moment the is no where in my town I can top up,so it's either by phone or online,which isn't much use if I've only got £9.99 in my account..:mad:

I fired off the E-Mail below;



And got this reply;

Hey spike,I know, its rather inconvenient to us when theres not enough in the bank to top up online or phone at times.I was thinking that perhaps a few of us should get on to budget to complain to them about the lack of payment facilities etc.They should have realised in the first place that paypoint is more common than payzone.