E.oN Fixed Price v16 - 1 Year Tariff

Legacy_user

I have just run my projected consumption through a variety of comparison websites and found that the differences between E.oN's versions 14 and 16 are as follows:

v14 Annual Projected Cost - £699 per annum

v16 Annual Projected Cost - £860 per annum

I thought initially that this was because the 'system' was defaulting to average consumption because E.oN's own site gives a calculation followed by an Illustrative Comparison. I have now extracted the unit price per kWh and feed them into my spreadsheet (comparing the tariff information on E.oN's site to 2 switching sites)

Electricity has increased from 11.025p to 13.713p per kWH (+24%)

Gas has increased from 3.102p to 4.039p per kWh (+30%)

Standing Charges remained unchanged.

Am I missing something?

brewerdave

Nope, in my region it would cost me £240 more than the MSE Collective switch tariff ..and ~£225 more than the defunct v15 !!! Obviously, EON do not want any more new customers !!!

System

brewerdave wrote: »

Nope, in my region it would cost me £240 more than the MSE Collective switch tariff ..and ~£225 more than the defunct v15 !!! Obviously, EON do not want any more new customers !!!

I am guessing that there has been a bit of finger trouble inputting data but then again.......

victor2

Does look like their rates have gone up, even from v15. Glad I just got someone switched onto v15, which was even lower than the v14.

Goldfishman

My experience with the Eon MSE I collective switch was that having paid the arranged £84.50 for the first month and following the submission of one meter reading, Eon decided that a 25% increase in the DD was advisable to stay on track until December 2015. How can this be the case when the six weeks usage they had recorded are in the period of heaviest usage and they had accurate consumption figures from my last supplier for the whole 12 month period prior to the switch. These obviously included BOTH heavy and light usage periods. This is going to be the inevitable outcome of switching during the months of heaviest usage when the monthly DD is always going to fall short for several months of the actual usage. However, NEVER, EVER allow these companies to estimate your usage, feed them frequent actual meter readings and don't be bullied into increasing your DD until Spring and Summer usages kick in.

Leblanc_2

I switched to Eon under the auspices of the Eon MSE I collective switch in December and what an absolutely negative experience it has been.

They have taken until today to sort out the switch. During the process I telephoned repeatedly and talked to between 5-6 different staff members. I received repeated promises that the switch was imminent and that they would phone me to confirm this, but they never phoned back.

The bottom line is that during this process the V15 became available. I tried over the weeks to switch to this tariff and was subsequently promised that this would happen but it was not the case.

With the expiry of V15 on the 10th February I tried on the 6th and the 9th to finalise this tariff. I was told today after much persistence that the glitches in the transfer had been sorted but that I could not have version 15. In the event a sales person offered V16 without explaining how detrimentally poor it was. I worked this out during the conversation. In effect I was going to be almost £200 pa worse off than V12 which I was put on initially!!!

I have changed suppliers a number of times over the years and this has been my worst experience ever. I am still not confident that my supply has been properly taken over.

I absolutely would not recommend EON.

Puffin2014

Goldfishman wrote: »

However, NEVER, EVER allow these companies to estimate your usage, feed them frequent actual meter readings and don't be bullied into increasing your DD until Spring and Summer usages kick in.

I totally agree with this - always give regular meter readings. With Scottish Power I can adjust my DD payments via my account online. Not sure if you can with EON?

cklass

Leblanc - have you tried contacting one of EON reps who post here about the problems you have experienced?

System

cklass wrote: »

Leblanc - have you tried contacting one of EON reps who post here about the problems you have experienced?

Leblanc - I agree. I wouldn't bother speaking to E.oN unless you want a simple question turned into a complaint. I have also had switching issues and I have now spoken to 5 different people - including 2 Resolution Managers - in 2 days.

My switch away from E.oN is now in progress.

I am still waiting to see the headline news item on this site that E.oN has raised its Fixed Price Tariffs.

molerat

victor2 wrote: »

Does look like their rates have gone up, even from v15. Glad I just got someone switched onto v15, which was even lower than the v14.

I check regularly and yesterday EOn were showing as cheapest elect only for me at £2 less than my current tariff. The cheapest EOn is now £48 dearer.

lvf

Back to the OP, no its no mistake. The Fixed 1 Year v15 was only a discounted tariff available for a limited period of time, and quite unlike E.ON of past, they mentioned in the principal terms as soon as it was released that the tariff was discounted and was only available until the 10th February.

The v16 is just E.ON reverting to their 'standard' Fixed 1 Year prices.