Switching supplier worth it?

Kleky

[FONT=&quot]All this changing energy supplier is great in theory, but practically it’s not. They have you by the balls, in that, they can screw you around as much as they want and there’s not much you can do. Complaining takes so much life out of you, not to mention all the time we haven’t got, that it’s not worth the extra cost. The answer is simple: make switching easier; make the suppliers more accountable; give them the ability (with our permission) to pay a previous supplier’s bill from a credit balance, to enable a switching (instead of being thrown back for an outstanding bill – which is often unavoidable as the process can take far too long).[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Ian[/FONT]

Pagett

Kleky wrote: »

[FONT=&quot]All this changing energy supplier is great in theory, but practically it’s not. They have you by the balls, in that, they can screw you around as much as they want and there’s not much you can do. Complaining takes so much life out of you, not to mention all the time we haven’t got, that it’s not worth the extra cost. The answer is simple: make switching easier; make the suppliers more accountable; give them the ability (with our permission) to pay a previous supplier’s bill from a credit balance, to enable a switching (instead of being thrown back for an outstanding bill – which is often unavoidable as the process can take far too long).[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Ian[/FONT]

Agreed. If I were you I wouldn't bother. Just stick with your reassuringly expensive supplier

Edit: I see you like the simple, albeit expensive, lifestyle.
Changed away from E7 to a single rate, despite having night storage heaters. Cool.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4239053

Obviously the simple lifestyle leads you to having so much spare time on your hands that you can share your 'advice' with others here :cool:

InkZ

Yep, loads of hassle. Wasted 20 mins of my life in the last two years.

macman

I can beat that-it took me 12 minutes on Sunday to commence a switch to Ovo.
How much easier can it be?

Bigphil1474

Agree with the replies - spent about 45 minutes changing supplier last July. Got a cheaper deal than existing, and got it fixed for 2 years. Saving kicked in straight away, and continues now and forever (well until next year). Wish I'd don eit sooner than I did. Made me laugh when BG offered me £150 not to leave them, when I was saving £200 a year by leaving them. Do miss the BG app though.

SF4

Plain English electricity & gas pricing
(sorry, not allowed to enclose link)

I submitted the above Government epetition at a good while back and it hasn't exactly set the website alight.
Am I being naive or just plain stupid?


Would appreciate some other opinions.

Thanks, Steve

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays

SF4 wrote: »

Plain English electricity & gas pricing
(sorry, not allowed to enclose link)

I submitted the above Government epetition at a good while back and it hasn't exactly set the website alight.
Am I being naive or just plain stupid?


Would appreciate some other opinions.

Thanks, Steve

The petition is a nonsense frankly, because everything you lay out already exists. Here is BG's price for average consumption:

http://www.britishgas.co.uk/products-and-services/gas-and-electricity/our-energy-tariffs.html

edf:

http://my.edfenergy.com/gas-electricity/our-energy-tariffs

Scottish Power (careful, this is annual so you may have to divide by 12)

http://www.scottishpower.co.uk/your-home/energy-products/dual

etc.

They are hardly likely to show their competitor's prices, and nor should they. However, should you want to do this, put 13,500 KWh Gas and 3,200 KWh Elec into a price comparison site.

The only things not obvious are those numbers, but they can be found with no more than 5 minutes google time.

Gratis

macman wrote: »

I can beat that-it took me 12 minutes on Sunday to commence a switch to Ovo.

How much easier can it be?

Initiating a switch does take only a few minutes (unless, some report, you try to do it via the “Cheap” Energy Club).

The hassle, the time expenditure and the woe come if the switch then does not go through smoothly and/or your former supplier clings on to the credit balance left in your account.

I hope your own switch goes fine, macman. :money:

Which length of Ovo’s fixes did you choose, by the way?