Eon offering save online 12.

s-a-h-

I came off of 9 yesterday and was about to jump ship, is this a reasonable alternative?

alba7

In my case, going from Saveonline 9 to Saveonline 12 would cost me another £135 a year. I'm in the middle of switching to Scottish Power.

Eon phoned me up last night to try to persuade me that Saveonline 12 is competitive. They gave up...

s-a-h-

They have put my DD up by £13, but I am finding the new website a nightmare for comparing the tariffs. I presume I just go with the £13 x 12 which makes me paying out £156 a year more!
On the other hand is this right, in the past they have put me up and I have been paid back as they get the figures wrong?

alba7

Put your yearly usage into a comparison site - it's probably more accurate. I tried to work out the figures myself but got a completely different answer to the comparison site's!

I wouldn't really trust Eon wanting to put up your DD. They wanted to reduce mine in February (to make their Spring Zero Balance work out) but I told them to leave it as it was.

I found that, in my area, Scottish Power's Fix November 2013 will cost about £60 more a year and that was the best I could get. Whatever tariff I went onto would cost more.

I don't like Eon's new site either.

molerat

I am currently jumping ship to EDF and this has done nothing to change my mind.

Variable tariff at a time when prices are only going one way.
Cancellation fee.
10th in the price comparison table.

alba7

Eon are 12th in my comparison list! I was beginning to think I wouldn't get a quote for Saveonline 12. I don't think Eon want customers any more.

Rodders53

alba7 wrote: »

Eon are 12th in my comparison list! I was beginning to think I wouldn't get a quote for Saveonline 12. I don't think Eon want customers any more.

You may be right based on their pricing strategy... looks like I've got to switch at the end of the month. Saveonline 12 would save me <£20 pa over the standard EnergyOnline tariff but > £126 pa more than now

Even the cheapest dual fuel switch I can find will cost >£30 pa more

tafer2uk

Well I jumped ship yesterday, decided not to wait any longer in the hope Eon would bring out a decent alternative to my Saveonline 9 tariff that expired on Thursday. Staying put was going to cost me £160 a year extra compared to last year, whereas with the Scottish Power Tariff and £70 cashback, it should mean that at least for the next 12 months I will pay no more than last year.

I just hope I got everything in the right order, ie contract expiring, meter readings and new bill requested before finally switching. It's probably 15 years since I switched, and whilst I'm sure they haven't always been the cheapest throughout that period I'm sure Eon have never been 15% dearer than the cheapest.

antrobus

I'm on Saveonline 10 at present, which is cheaper than anything else around at the moment. But when that ends in a couple of months time, going onto Saveonline 12 will mean a 20% increase. That's a painfully big increase, and it looks like switching to Scottish Power would save £200ish.

So unless E.on launch a Saveonline 13 pretty soon with a more competitive rate, I imagine I'll be joining the exodus as well.

mirabelle

alba7 wrote: »

Eon are 12th in my comparison list! I was beginning to think I wouldn't get a quote for Saveonline 12. I don't think Eon want customers any more.

I have now been telephoned a second time from Eon this week asking why I am leaving them . I told them for the second time it was on price and I said they must be losing a lot of customers , to which he replied they have over 7 million customers and they are quite happy with that number and are losing some but will not be offering a new tariff. Seems like a strange business model to me.

Pincher

mirabelle wrote: »

to which he replied they have over 7 million customers and they are quite happy with that number and are losing some but will not be offering a new tariff.

If you are into conspiracy theories, I would say they are part of a secret cartel, and each member is only allowed to have so many customers. E.On has attracted too many, so now they have to shed some.