is there an easy way to keep on cheapest tarrff without continually changing and incu

turnbui

is there an easy way to keep on cheapest tariff without continually changing and incurring charges? 7 days to change, change DD's etc, enough to wind any human up! Or is it purosefully designed this way?
frustrated.

bob_bank_spanker

turnbui wrote: »

is there an easy way to keep on cheapest tariff without continually changing and incurring charges? 7 days to change, change DD's etc, enough to wind any human up! Or is it purosefully designed this way?
frustrated.

It's a market. Do you beat yourself when walking past Sainsburys and see something on offer you bought in Tesco that cost more yesterday?

Or how about car insurance, the deal you got 2 months ago may well not be the most competitive now.

Get yourself a reasonable fixed price tariff,and relax.

macman

Please enlighten us as to how you can do a switch in 7 days?
A switch takes about 30 minutes, once a year or less. All completed online.
There are no charges if you don't break your minimum term contract.

wakeupalarm

turnbui wrote: »

is there an easy way to keep on cheapest tariff without continually changing and incurring charges? 7 days to change, change DD's etc, enough to wind any human up! Or is it purosefully designed this way?
frustrated.

Yes, we could go back to the old days of British Gas, and the Regional electricity boards. Have one company running everything with only one tariff per meter type. You would then always be on the cheapest tariff.

No need for multiple companies, multiple tariffs, multiple board of directors, multiple billing systems, multiple sales forces or the comparison sites. Just cut all the duplication and waste down and see our energy bills fall. But the directors would lose their bonuses and pensions so no chance of it happening.

insanegloss

wakeupalarm wrote: »

Yes, we could go back to the old days of British Gas, and the Regional electricity boards. Have one company running everything with only one tariff per meter type. You would then always be on the cheapest tariff.

No need for multiple companies, multiple tariffs, multiple board of directors, multiple billing systems, multiple sales forces or the comparison sites. Just cut all the duplication and waste down and see our energy bills fall. But the directors would lose their bonuses and pensions so no chance of it happening.

You would also simultaneously be on the most expensive tariff too, and no chance of the option of any sort of change. You can hardly call that a consumers utopia.

scaredofdebt

I believe some of the comparison sites such as uSwitch will tell you when it's time to switch, maybe MSE offers a similar feature?

macman

insanegloss wrote: »

You would also simultaneously be on the most expensive tariff too, and no chance of the option of any sort of change. You can hardly call that a consumers utopia.

Why not expand on that theme and have only one supermarket chain, one bank, one petrol station? I'm sure prices would tumble...not.

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

scaredofdebt wrote: »

...maybe MSE offers a similar feature?

They could call it the Cheap Energy Club.

Not sure if you were being entirely serious as you didn't use a smiley.