Thumbs up for Npower

shegar

scope wrote: »

You do know that you are (financially) better off switching providers? I switch roughly every year and make around £150 per switch using the correct cashback website, etc.. Thats a couple of months electricity and gas paid for. I was last with NPower a few years ago, since then I have been with EDF and British Gas.. Now I am getting £40 cashback from uswitch (I think), as well as £100 Love Vouchers from NPower to go back to them..

I do the comparison websites every February and each time N Power comes out the cheapest for me , so thats why ive been with them a couple year........If they were dearer then I would change supplier....:D

Consumerist

shegar wrote: »

I do the comparison websites every February and each time N Power comes out the cheapest for me , so thats why ive been with them a couple year........If they were dearer then I would change supplier....:D

Being the cheapest on a comparison site only gives you a pricing snapshot unless you get a fixed-rate tariff. On variable tariffs, normally close to the top of the tables, you are at the mercy of price changes within the contract period. Npower are good at making a tariff look good to the unwary but, by paying discounts on the last day of contract, you lose all their juicy-looking discounts if they increase prices and you want to switch.

Add up your bills over a year and see how close the comparison-site's estimate came to the actual cost over the period. If you are on a fixed-rate tariff it should be reasonably accurate but, on a variable-rate tariff, you might be in for a surprise.

shegar

Consumerist wrote: »

Being the cheapest on a comparison site only gives you a pricing snapshot unless you get a fixed-rate tariff. On variable tariffs, normally close to the top of the tables, you are at the mercy of price changes within the contract period. Npower are good at making a tariff look good to the unwary but, by paying discounts on the last day of contract, you lose all their juicy-looking discounts if they increase prices and you want to switch.

Add up your bills over a year and see how close the comparison-site's estimate came to the actual cost over the period. If you are on a fixed-rate tariff it should be reasonably accurate but, on a variable-rate tariff, you might be in for a surprise.

Yea im on a fixed rate tariff, ive put my actual meter readings on comparison sites and I cant get any cheaper than n power.........