Leaving the Big Six for a Little One

martin2345uk

Well I just switched via uSwitch, from Scottish Power to First Utility. Yep, I've read all the comments on here, good and bad, but hey a saving is worth a punt, no? And to be frank their call waiting times can hardly be worse than SP's!!

Currently about £500 in credit with SP too soo looking forward to getting that back (probably going to be a struggle like everything else with them but what can you do!)

So fingers crossed...!!! :money:

martin2345uk

Well so far so good, today I got my welcome email from First, and then another with my online account login details... will see if I can actually log in, and if I can then they're already one up on Scottish Power ;-)

Andy_WSM

I moved my gas away from Eon to Daligas a year ago as Dali is so much cheaper. Had no problems yet.

My fixed electric tariff runs out soon too, so will go with whoever is cheapest for that also. Already checked Eon and they're going to hit me for nearly a 20% increase, which is not on given green taxes have been reduced and wholesale energy hasn't increased that much since I fixed.

So much for OFGEMs simpler tariffs. It's still a bloomin' mess trying to compare one to another - and the comparisson sites all disagree with each other.

martin2345uk

Totally! Never heard of Daligas though!

My comparison sites all put First as the cheapest, though the amounts seemed to vary from £50 to about £150.

Well I've successfuly logged on to my online account, though there's obviously not much there yet. I do like the purple colour scheme though

webnise

I too moved to First Utility from EDF 4 weeks ago and so far so good . Got a saving of £70 !

Rrushi_Shqiptar

We moved from British gas and EDF to dual fuel with OVO Energy, saving £12 a month fixed term 12 months.

MSE_Dan_L

Andy_WSM wrote: »

It's still a bloomin' mess trying to compare one to another - and the comparisson sites all disagree with each other.

Hi Andy

Have you tried MSE's Cheap Energy Club? Just to reassure you, we check the details shown on our site every week to ensure that they are correct. Where we spot differences between our results and other comparison sites we recheck our results with the suppliers to make sure that we're 100% accurate.
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cheapenergyclub

Andy_WSM

MSE_Dan_L wrote: »

Hi Andy

Have you tried MSE's Cheap Energy Club? Just to reassure you, we check the details shown on our site every week to ensure that they are correct. Where we spot differences between our results and other comparison sites we recheck our results with the suppliers to make sure that we're 100% accurate.
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cheapenergyclub

I signed up when it first started, but the results weren't good - and from memory, nearly everyone was getting recommended the same supplier, even though they weren't cheapest.

I will give it another look as my fixed term with Eon comes to an end shortly.

MSE_Dan_L

Hi Andy - that sounds strange...our results definitely show all available tariffs, so worth taking a look if you are looking to switch.

martin2345uk

I've had the emails from First saying that the cooling off period is now up, so that's it, I'm definitely going through with this!

Ilona

Good luck with that Martin. I've just had my quarterly bills from Ebico, after leaving Brit Gas in January. I'm mighty chuffed. I know we are in the summer months, but I don't expect my bills to increase significantly through the winter, because I am a tight wad when it comes to switching things on. No standing charge and no excess for paying quarterly. Suits me.
Ilona