Utility Warehouse (Telecom Plus) Discussion

1carminestocky

To be fair to Peter Crouch, as per usual, he is in the Top 5 top scorers in the Premier League. Maybe he's a bit like UW, on the surface it doesn't look like he will be a contender but he has hidden talents that make him highly competitive (and in some cases the best, his England scoring record, for instance, is still proprtionately better than Mr Rooney's). Who'd have thought it?

(Let's keep the football analogies coming, I have a feeling Quentin knows nothing about the game so we should be safe, lol).

1carminestocky

ColinAllCars wrote: »

How is Mike by the Sea breaking the site rules which say Don't post links for personal gain ?


UW Distributor.

It is curious that the only person on here to post a link from a UW distributor's site is, yes, step forward, Quentin. I'm not expecting him to see the irony in this, btw. I'm reminded of Cloughie's famous claim:

I'm not saying I'm the best football manager in the World. But I'm in the top 1.

Cloughie had humour to balance his arrogance, I always felt. Add that to his definite failings and addiction and it made him very 'human' at the same time.

jimexbox

1carminestocky wrote: »

My take on this analogy would be:

Cardew = UW
Tiger Woods = Online Energy Tariff
Pardraig Harrington in Major-winning form = UW cashback card.

No, UW standard tarrif without their cash back card is not competitive. In my area their standard tarrif is ranked 53rd (energy help line) with my current energy consumption, which would cost me an extra £229 per annum.

Seems like a lot of thought and effort to get close a online tarrif.

1carminestocky

jimexbox wrote: »

No, UW standard tarrif without their cash back card is not competitive. In my area their standard tarrif is ranked 53rd (energy help line) with my current energy consumption, which would cost me an extra £229 per annum.

Seems like a lot of thought and effort to get close a online tarrif.

I'm sure we've had this before. Don't you travel to different places to get the best shopping deal/experience? I suppose it all depends on what you class as a lot of thought and effort. Hmmmm...paying for your shopping and petrol with one card from your wallet instead of another one. Yes, it's too much for me to even comtemplate doing. In our case this has meant we spend far less time shopping than previously. Far less petrol expended and much less damage to the environment. Oh, and a simply unbeatable level of cashback (which, yes, arrives in the form of a discount off the bill ) If you are the type who actually enjoys the shopping experience it may not be for you, I suppose. But if you are an extreme moneysaver definitely worth considering. No?

Current Sainsburys basket up to £36.93 (35 items). Corresponding basket at Tesco, Asda and Ocado is £50.80 :eek: , £46.69 and £77.38 :eek: :eek: . NO special offers/BOGOFS in our sainsburys basket at all to 'skew' the figures so the results are interesting to say the least. Add that to the fact UW punters would appear to also get the 5% (and nectar points) on gift cards purchased in-store from Sainsburys for stores not included in the UW %% cashback scheme or indeed the nectar schemem and this makes this deal worth looking at at least. Of coures, not for everybody but certainly a viable option for people who alread regularly shop at Sainsburys (they had 19 million punters through their doors during Red Nose Week, for instance).


PS UW must be THE most thoroughly resaerched energy supplier on MSE. It's extraordinary the work some people are putting into it on here (me included, lol)...

jimexbox

The thing is if most folk put as much effort into getting their 5% cash back into everyday cost saving, coupled with a online tarrif, they would be even better off. Examples....

Ive stopped buying soft drinks at work, I now drink water from home. Saving £24 month.

I now eco-drive my diesel, saving around £100 month.

So there's £1488 saved with real minimal effort.

1carminestocky

jimexbox wrote: »

The thing is if most folk put as much effort into getting their 5% cash back into everyday cost saving, coupled with a online tarrif, they would be even better off. Examples....

Ive stopped buying soft drinks at work, I now drink water from home. Saving £24 month.

I now eco-drive my diesel, saving around £100 month.

So there's £1488 saved with real minimal effort.

We do all those things as well! So your theory doesn't work. There's absolutely no requirement for these money saving efforts to be mutually exclusive. In fact, I would imagine the people who are attracted to the UW cashback card are MORE liable to be making cost savings elsewhere also. I have a Seat Toledo 1.9TDI and my wife has a Toyota Aygo. Interestingly, the consumption of the 2 is remarkably similar, averaging 48-50mpg. And that's with mostly short jouneys and some city centre driving thrown in. The car tax on the Aygo is £35 per year and the insurance (with cashback) came to a net £75 (only a couple of years NCB as she was a named driver for many years). Insurance on my Seat was minus £13 but that's an entirely different story.

jimexbox

I dont think most folk do think and implement cost saving measures. I drive on the M25 daily, and everyone but lorries overtake me. People who frequent these are not the norm, not that they aren't nice people.;)

1carminestocky

jimexbox wrote: »

I dont think most folk do think and implement cost saving measures. I drive on the M25 daily, and everyone but lorries overtake me. People who frequent these are not the norm, not that they aren't nice people.;)

I didn't say most folk do implement cost saving measures. Of course, as I have said many times on here, people who frequent MSE are NOT the norm compared to the vast majority of the GBP. I have met financial advisers for major High Street institutions who have been paying their energy supplier's standard rate for yonks. Stupid. And they are advising people about financial prudence. Most of my friends were on similar price plans until I got them onto online tariffs a while ago. We are unusual in our desire to money save, hence why we are on here.

1carminestocky

jimexbox wrote: »

No, UW standard tarrif without their cash back card is not competitive. In my area their standard tarrif is ranked 53rd (energy help line) with my current energy consumption, which would cost me an extra £229 per annum.

Seems like a lot of thought and effort to get close a online tarrif.

I can't find any way of just getting standard tariffs showing on energyhelpline, just paper bill tariffs. Any ideas?

Quentin

jimexbox wrote: »

No, UW standard tarrif without their cash back card is not competitive.

The uw reps have done their job by telling us that although their energy prices are dear, we should look at the broader picture and realise that they aren't so dear once the wrongly named cashback card is used. (Wrongly named because the idea is your "cashback" is paid by way of a credit on your utility bill. There is the major catch - you must buy the expensive utilities first).

Moneysavers who are happy to use a cashcard, (as opposed to a credit card), and accept the risks that come with them would be much better off not to go down this convoluted route. Research the market and discover that 5% off is the norm, and 8% achievable by paying in advance for your supermarket shopping etc(Sainsbury included as well as Waitrose, Boots etc etc)

There are prepay cards that you can use to buy goods at the same stores the uw has deals with, but you keep the discount yourself - meaning you don't have to be tied to uw at all.