Switching when bill payer is changing

zerog

Vendor A sells a property to landlord B.

A paid bills to supplier X.

B initiates a switch to supplier Y. The start date is given.

Before the start date, tenant B moves in.

Is the switch irreversible and is B in a deemed contract with X and then Y?

datlex

I can't see why you can't changed back to the original supplier or indeed a third supplier. Ring the original supplier tell them you want to stay with them at this point. Companies seem to have customer retention lines. Why did the landlord change the supplier in the first place? Sometimes these landlords are a pain in the behind interfering with things that are nothing to do with them!!

zerog

datlex wrote: »

I can't see why you can't changed back to the original supplier or indeed a third supplier. Ring the original supplier tell them you want to stay with them at this point. Companies seem to have customer retention lines. Why did the landlord change the supplier in the first place? Sometimes these landlords are a pain in the behind interfering with things that are nothing to do with them!!

I am not the tenant, or the landlord. Not sure why you are slagging off landlords. Let's try a similar scenario:

Tenant A initiates switch from supplier X to supplier Y in November. Y gives him a start date of 1st January.

Tenant A leaves the property on 23rd December and Tenant B moves in. Because it's Christmas, Tenant B reads the meters on the 23rd and then doesn't do anything until January. Tenant B should have a deemed contract with X initially, but after 8 days, does he then have a deemed contract with Y?

Cardew

If Tenant B uses any gas/electricity from either company he is on a deemed contract with that company.

In the case you quote he will be on a deemed contract with both company X and then company Y - unless he is in time to cancel the switch to company Y.