Price comparison website does it include discount

loulou41

I am just wondering whether the price comparison website includes the direct debit discount one gets with NP!! The reason I am asking is with EDF 2014 m my bill will be £708.86 and there is a 6% DD discount but with NP (current supplier) the price fixed up to 2013 is £756.96, and there is a £100 discount if paying by DD. Just need some advice which one should I go for and which will work cheaper. I am tempted to stay with NP due to negative feebacks I have been reading on this forum with EDF.

Premier_2

With most comparison sites, if you click on the tariff that interests you it will give you details of what is included in the stated annual price (and perhaps some charges/discounts that are not if they require you to be a customer longer than 12 months to become eligible)

jalexa

loulou41 wrote: »

I am just wondering whether the price comparison website includes the direct debit discount one gets with NP!! The reason I am asking is with EDF 2014 m my bill will be £708.86 and there is a 6% DD discount but with NP (current supplier) the price fixed up to 2013 is £756.96, and there is a £100 discount if paying by DD. Just need some advice which one should I go for and which will work cheaper.
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Premier has more or less answered but I will make the same point differently.

A normal Consumer Focus accredited comparison website returns a 12 month headline cost. The headline cost does not include discounts paid after 12 months (or to put it differently, does include discounts paid during the 12 months comparison period). So if you folllow Premier's answer you will see that discount on NPower "deferred discount" tariffs is paid on the last day of the 12 month comparison period, therefore the headline cost includes the discount.

Be aware if a switch away from a "deferred discount" tariff completes before the discount is earned, it is forfeited. That's potentially £100 lost!:eek:

It would be a pity if you considered that form of "sharp practice" to be less serious than reports of Edf's "dysfunctional" customer service. (My own switch to Edf completed 100% satisfactorily without having had *any* contact with Edf,:D because it proved "impossible").:(