Npower - Switching account to wife's name?

mbailey

I am extremely upset at Npowers disregard to existing customers. I am on SOL v4 tariff, but if I compare against the latest v7 tariff it would save me £110 per year!!!

I tried just applying again on the npower website for the v7 prices, but they wrote to me and said I was already a customer.

I have thought about closing my account with them and opening a new account in my wife's name.

Would that option work?

Has anyone else tried this?

computerwoman

I would just change all together, I was with them for 6 months once did'nt like how they treated there customers so went back to powergen, since then I moved to Ebico which is great, last years same bill was £200 for gas £400 for electric this year £60 gas £180 electric thats how much I've saved I've not used any more or less its the same units used just different company, just jump ship I would log onto ebico

jap200

There is considerable debate about this - see here:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=283038

I am still waiting for anyone to answer my question - almost the same as yours.

With respect to Ebico - surely it depends on where you live as to whether this would be cheaper or not

mbailey

If I understand Ebico correct there are larger savings for low usage rather than mid to high usage?

My elec is approx £400 for the year, and gas £600 for the year. I compared the unit prices of ebico against Npower SOL v7 prices and npower are cheaper.

mbailey

computerwoman wrote:

I would just change all together, I was with them for 6 months once did'nt like how they treated there customers so went back to powergen, since then I moved to Ebico which is great, last years same bill was £200 for gas £400 for electric this year £60 gas £180 electric thats how much I've saved I've not used any more or less its the same units used just different company, just jump ship I would log onto ebico

The question should I switch to another supplier for 28 days, and then back to npower again? From my experience of switching it all takes a very long time. From submitting application form to new company it takes 2 months to be switched over. May be this is just npower being slow, are other companies faster?

tripled

You could do that, but give it another 6 months and they'll probably be on Sol 8 by then and you'll no longer be on the cheapest tariff. I would just use the next cheapest supplier. Also if you use a cashback site when you switch away that could offset some of the price difference.