Economy 7 Horror ?

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays

OK, I suspect you just don't get it, but I'll try one more time.

Imagine you have a diesel car. For many years diesels are cheaper. You go to a forecourt that promises - "cheapest diesel". They keep to their side of the bargain. Meanwhile, unleaded cars become generally better value.

Have the garage any obligation to tell you to shift to unleaded? No. They're keeping to their side of the bargain.

I'm positive edf, when you asked them the question directly, had you on their cheapest e7 tariff. It is absolutely not down to them to question your metering set up!!

Richie-from-the-Boro

Moneyless,

Margaret Thatcher started with 'hissing Sid gas' in '86, Maggie privatised the UK Electricity Supply Industry in England and Wales in '90. Magnitudes of change in the last 29 years, the whole world of energy has changed, a couple of things that have not changed are :

- the information moneyless needed to check his/her bills existed, moneyless [unlike most of these Islands] just never checked
- Margaret Thatcher's market reform left you in charge of your own destiny 'sink or swim .. .. you went verdoma and sank !
- you can appeal to your supplier and you might get a complimentary £50 'keep em sweet' money
- but blame as it is, is entirely with the account holder, 60% of all customers [stickies] never change
- 'stickies' subsidise the rest of us by overpaying, thank you moneyless for your financial contribution to my personal energy costs

Best of luck my friend.

macman

Since no-one on here is going to be able convince you of the absurdity of your claim, I suggest you go ahead and put a claim into EDF for 'overpayment', and come back on here when you have got it. In the meantime, I won't be holding my breath.

Moneyless

Well it's a shame you fail to understand, when I sign up to a company\service, I expect the best and most correct\honest conduct from them, sorry if that's too old school for the numerous children there appear to be here, mind you quite a few here would make good lawyers, as they do nothing but hide behind semantics, and stuff the truth lets screw them over anyway we can brigade, you need to go back to school, learn about comprehension, on a side note I even had to teach the police about comprehension as well, and when the penny finally dropped with them, the end result was someone getting 18 months for fraud, because they finally understood what I was saying to be right.


Then go and watch a professor of mathematics show you just how worthless your precious numbers are, a person relies on accurate data to be able to make informed choices, when a person is given false info it's not their fault when they change your service that you have no idea about what better options there may be, I signed up to the most cost saving option available when I started out, they changed the service more times than I could name, but I have an expected understanding they will be ensuring I was on the best service each time, this did NOT happen.

I was studying to be a services engineer when all this new age utility suppler choice came into being, where company's were no longer restricted to their own sectors, and he took the data that the door knocker brigade came round with, saying how much they can save you, and by simply changing the approach he took to produce results, he could change the figures held so dear to their clipboards, to show whatever result he wanted, these days I dare say legislation has been tightened to stop suppliers being able to do this, but I wonder how many people blindly jumping aboard the "let's save money" bandwagon ended up paying more, and yes it did happen, so Thanks to the lemmings jumping off the cliff for paying me back.

The fact someone says you can save money does not make it so, don't get me wrong many times it will, but there can often be many variables that can affect just how much, if any money at all an individual would get, when I started on this tariff I did save money, but that is no longer the case, and when a company clearly states if they can save you money, they will tell you if you can get a cheaper service (or whatever semantic term you wish to use), even elsewhere, it's not unreasonable to expect them to take this into account, thankfully they had very reasonable human beings look at my case, and unlike the blinkered "know it all's" here they agreed with me, and furthermore are looking at producing a reform in how they access peoples usage, AND, are now telling people about meter savings as well.

Anyway I have my rebate, and they are now alerting people about meter types as well now because of this kind of situation, also as a result they are reassessing the limit at which this will happen now, because until I made my case they used 20% + as a baseline, so as long as you were over that figure on your cheap units, even if 1% over as I was on average, they "ASSUMED" you were better off, but when they looked at my data, and case I presented, they clearly saw it was a completely unrealistic figure they had set.

And the young lady who was helping me was so overwhelmed about this, they were going to check all her relations also checked on their usage when she got home, because like myself, she expected the company to alert you when they see you are paying too much full stop, and she works for the company, so what hope is there for people who don't know about such things, you may have been born into this era of choosing suppliers and the like, but ask those from the time when you had no such choice, and the emergence of this new era, and ask them how many times they heard of people being worse off by swallowing the crud that some of you so obviously live on, ask them about changing suppliers, you will get a varied response.

But as I said these days such risk is minimal (I would hope at least), which is why I am now more likely to believe a company saying they will save me money, but those who are sheep swallowing the comparison sites saying who will save them money, Thanks for my cheaper insurance etc., they have only ever saved me money once, every other year they were considerably more expensive than I got by going direct to the company, anyway I'm done here, you children can throw your toys out of your prams now, respect to those who at least tried to keep things civil, and agreeing (albeit in part only) to at least some of the points I made, but to the rest I save the words I enjoy using when my kids act like you, and I prove them wrong, "I TOLD YOU SO".

xHannahx

We are on economy seven and it works a lot cheaper for us. We have night storage heaters, immersion tank water heater thing, and also our washing machine has a time we set to come on to finish the load just before the end of E7 and ready to put on the line when we get up.