Do price comparison sites include annual discounts?

iou2p

My current supplier comes second best on the comparison site, however it includes a £100 discount if you stay the full year.

This does not seem to have been included in the price on the comparison site, if it did it would be the cheapest.

So why are these sites allowed to give the wrong info and why do they do this?

Can you sue them for giving you the wrong info?

I am with npower and using about 10,000kwh gas and 2,000 kwh electric.

rogerblack

They are often included, but sites are not completely reliable, due to the enormous complexity of the market, and the thousands of tariffs out there.
You should always verify the result of one of these comparison sites.

You can sue anyone you like.
However, the chance of you losing and having to pay the other parties costs is almost a certainty.

iou2p

rogerblack wrote: »

They are often included, but sites are not completely reliable, due to the enormous complexity of the market, and the thousands of tariffs out there.
You should always verify the result of one of these comparison sites.

You can sue anyone you like.
However, the chance of you losing and having to pay the other parties costs is almost a certainty.

Yes because it will be legal for them to rip you off cos of a corrupt system.

iou2p

Ok I have checked through the prices and it seems the discount is included in the price.
The problem was I ran the same figures through the npower site and it was unclear, it showed the same price but with £100 annual discount
along side it in red so I though I could take £100 of the price they quoted. However it seems they have already taken that £100 off.
The way npower lay out their figures is very confusing, it took me a long time to work out where the figures came from, the confusion works
in their favour because it may lead to you thinking you are getting a better deal than you get in reality.

Again their is something OFGEM should prevent.

I read some where that the first thing a government regulated industry does it to buy off the regulator - how true that is!!

I see that in all the 'watchdogs' be it advertising or press complaints or whatever, they are useless so you may as well scrap them
and save the cost of running them.