Crafty NIE (Keypad)

hazelc56

steveymp wrote: »

Unfortunately it's not my house, just renting at present, don't think the landlord would be too happy if I switched his leccy supplier:)

Max online top up for NIE key pad on their site is £175, I have no idea if you can top up more using your card in a shop as I have only ever used online:o

Agrees with rolo1 "Ditch nie and switch".
Budget Energy is better than airtricity as they wont charge you the £5 that airtricity will charge you when you buy electricity online and telephone.Budget energy dont rope you into a contract so you can leave when you like at any time.As for your landlord I dont think he/she would have a problem with you switching as there is no tampering with the meter.You only have to ring them and thats that.No landlord would be against someone tryingto save a bit of money.BTW. I signed up with budget energy yesterday and im excited about the savings i am going to make as i was really worried about the price hike NIE are about to impose on us this coming winter.Its so easy..I have a keypad meter,which means i am going to save 13% on my electricity and was told by budget that they will always be 13% cheaper than nie.Hope this helps.
PS. no harm in asking your landlord....Im in private accommodation and didnt bother asking mine as i know its quite irrelevant to him what company i use for my electricity.In fact when i first requested that i get a keypad meter installed he was pleased.

absoluteutopia

Going to switch to budget, might be a silly question but how do you read a keypad meter?

steveymp

absoluteutopia wrote: »

Going to switch to budget, might be a silly question but how do you read a keypad meter?

I'm new to keypad meters as I new to renting, but you just top up the meter with your card in any shop or online and type in the code, your meter then tells you the amount of credit you have and it counts down as you use the leccy, when it gets to £1 you get a nice alarm to look for more money:)

absoluteutopia

steveymp wrote: »

I'm new to keypad meters as I new to renting, but you just top up the meter with your card in any shop or online and type in the code, your meter then tells you the amount of credit you have and it counts down as you use the leccy, when it gets to £1 you get a nice alarm to look for more money:)

I know that ive had a meter for years but never have had to read it. On the online signup its asking for a (Meter Reading) so is there a button you press that brings this up?

hazelc56

absoluteutopia wrote: »

I know that ive had a meter for years but never have had to read it. On the online signup its asking for a (Meter Reading) so is there a button you press that brings this up?

absolutopia... you press button number 9 and a set of numbers come up..its very easy to read.

absoluteutopia

That done the job Hazel, many thanks. That's me on my way to Budget

hazelc56

absoluteutopia wrote: »

That done the job Hazel, many thanks. That's me on my way to Budget

Good luck abs.

hazelc56

stevenc75 wrote: »

To those that mentioned Budget Electricity, many thanks. I had never heard of them and was going to move to Airtricity. They are cheaper than Airtricity. I just called them to switch and they are good to deal with.

Well done steven,I am looking forward to mine coming into play.....9 days left to go.:beer:

yorkie98

steveymp wrote: »

I don't see how we are trying to 'Cheat' NIE it's a simple case of bulk buying before a price rise, quiet a common thing in the world of MSE;)

You have taken my use of the word cheat in the wrong context, I meant it like to trick (to "cheat" Death) etc.. not as in to be dishonest.

With keypad meters, nobody gets to "cheat" (honestly or dishonestly) anybody as the price rise is effective as of 01/10, not by the money you have in your meter or when you next top up but by the price per unit charged as of that date. PowerNI do not charge the new rate until 01/10 regardless of how much/little there is in the meter and those who apply the 40 digit powercode late (after 01/10) are restropectively back-charged the per-unit cost underpaid from 01/10.
Nobody winning, nobody losing, nobody "cheating" as PowerNI have given the required warning of the price rise and one way or another, all customers will pay the new unit rate on all units used from 01/10.

I'm no big fan of PowerNI and certainly not a fan of the price rise but there's nothing we can do about it, the other providers will follow suit soon enough.
The reason I'm trying to promote some calm here is that from an MSE point of view, where's the sense in piling money into a prepayment meter (possibly reshuffling financial priorities) to load up the meter on the misguided notion that this will save them money when it won't, not a single penny. That's not going to help anyone..

yorkie98

see my recent post here:https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3414259