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want_to_save

philng said:

Just a heads up energy prices still falling so AVRO have brought out yet another cheaper fixed tariff with no Exit Fees Simple & Super Fixed. Only a small saving this time but may as well have. Instructions as before:

Get Quote
Key in Post Code etc and it will recognise you as an existing customer and ask you to log in
New Quote will be displayed BUT ensure you over type RENEWAL DATE to todays date
Click renew and all done

thats another £1 a month saving thank you

Biggus_Dickus

alanwsg said:

Gerry1 said:

Or have a look at https://www.energylinx.co.uk/latest_energy_price_updates.htm

So what's the "Simple and GoSuperSave" and "Simple and GoSuperSwift" on that list?, - launched on the 19th Feb.

I don't get offered them if I ask for a new quote.

Simple&GoSuperSave doesn’t seem to be on the Avro tariff list ??

The Simple&GoSuperSwift (12 months fixed, £0 exit fee) tariff is listed on the ‘Which-switch’ comparison site;...if I enter my own dual fuel usage/postcode it’s £26/yr more expensive than Simple&Superfixed.

https://switch.which.co.uk  

 P.S. I really wish Avro would alter their tariff naming convention,...too many Simples, too many Supers and too many Savers,...my grey matter is easily confused these days. 

 

youravinalarrrf

Does this help? https://energysuppliers.energylinx.co.uk/avro-energy/

I'm guessing that availability for each of the 4 currently available tariffs listed on that page is probably linked to differing payment methods or frequency.

Biggus_Dickus

youravinalarrrf said:

Does this help? https://energysuppliers.energylinx.co.uk/avro-energy/

I'm guessing that availability for each of the 4 currently available tariffs listed on that page is probably linked to differing payment methods or frequency.

Avro are presently listing 13 ‘currently available’ tariffs on their website.

‘SimpleEnergy’ tariff which I guess is their SVT,...a PAYG tariff,... and 1 tariff (Simple&Superfixed) which is available directly through Avro’s website.

The remaining 10 tariffs (I assume, maybe wrongly!) are on offer through various price comparison sites.

https://www.avroenergy.co.uk/prices

 

polymaff

Biggus_Dickus said:

youravinalarrrf said:

Does this help? https://energysuppliers.energylinx.co.uk/avro-energy/

I'm guessing that availability for each of the 4 currently available tariffs listed on that page is probably linked to differing payment methods or frequency.

Avro are presently listing 13 ‘currently available’ tariffs on their website.

‘SimpleEnergy’ tariff which I guess is their SVT,...a PAYG tariff,... and 1 tariff (Simple&Superfixed) which is available directly through Avro’s website.

The remaining 10 tariffs (I assume, maybe wrongly!) are on offer through various price comparison sites.

https://www.avroenergy.co.uk/prices

 

And those 10 seem to be just three, multibranded, rate combinations - and those combos, at least here, are poor value compared with the unbranded Simple and SuperFixed.

Thank you, Mister Ford, black paint will do fine  !

youravinalarrrf

On reflection you are probably correct but I think you would agree that life's too short to track them all down via the numerous comparison sites. It highlights the importance of checking the available tariffs at any one time by using 3 or 4 of the more trustworthy comparison sites so that no important tariff changes are missed.

Nebulous2

reg091 said:

Into my second year with them. They supply electricity and gas without any hitches, webasite is easy to use to submit readings. But, three observations:

1. I submit my readings punctually and have never missed one, yet the statements show E C E (estimated, customer, estimated) which makes no sense to me.
   

It depends when you submit your readings. My statement is on the 12th. I get an email reminding me to submit readings about the 10th. If I submit on the 10th I get an actual (C) reading for the 10th and an estimate (E) for the 12th. The estimate is very close to the actual. If I submit on the 12th I only get an actual, not an estimate.

Telegraph_Sam

victor2 said:

onlyfoolsandparking said:

Very interesting comments regarding comparison sites, I have just switched from Bulb and their 'ripoff' gas prices to Avro (9th Feb) 'Simple and superfixed' which will save me £238 (apparently) based on MY usage and I consider that a decent saving, however having read somewhere on here maybe this thread about Citizens advice comparison site I decided to explore it and I'm a bit gobsmacked, I put my figures in what I'm paying at Bulb and the saving it produced were around £390!!!!!! This is with Orbit where I must admit the unit prices are VERY cheap 2.01 approx for gas and 10.5 for electric (cant remember the exact figures) SO I did the comparison again but this time put Avro down as my supplier and the saving came up around £190, why is this?? looks to me like CEC is a waste of time and flawed, I don't know whether to cancel my switch to Avro and go with Orbit, I believe?? I could cancel as I switched on the 9th + 14 days = 23rd feb, how easy will it be to cancel switch? or should I just get up and running with Avro then switch later on in the year as the 'no exit fee' with Avro works in my favour anyway.

Am I missing something here?   

The so called "savings" these sites produce, using OFGEM mandated rules, are well known to be meaningless to anyone not on a supplier's standard (ie. expensive) tariff.

Forget any supposed savings figures given and look at estimated cost for the coming year. Compare that to what you actually paid for energy consumed in the previous year. The difference is what extra (or less) you will pay IF your usage in the coming year matches your usage for the last year.

Sorry for resurrecting a quote from earlier in the month.  This confirms a post I did in a different forum.  Whenever I do an up to date search with MSE it brings up the usual list of suppliers in some sort of order of competitiveness - which I find very useful.  However I never take the quotes at face value without cross checking in my spreadsheet.  Normally these turn out to be reasonably accurate.  That said, I have yet to succeed in understanding how the claimed "savings" values are arrived at.  Editing my profile details to stop the system thinking that I am about to be switched onto the standard variable tariff seems to have little effect - the "savings" are an illusion (and by quite some margin) and sheltering behind the OFGEM regs is no excuse. These figures are highly misleading and inaccurate. Unless MSE can make them more relevant then the site should voluntarily omit them. Better of course would be to alter the algorithms such that what is shown is of some help to would-be switchers.

Consumerist

CEC comparisons can be based on one of two tariffs: (1) your current tariff or (2) the tariff you will be put on when your fix ends. Is it possible you've selected the wrong basis?

reg091

Nebulous2 said:

reg091 said:

Into my second year with them. They supply electricity and gas without any hitches, webasite is easy to use to submit readings. But, three observations:

1. I submit my readings punctually and have never missed one, yet the statements show E C E (estimated, customer, estimated) which makes no sense to me.
   

It depends when you submit your readings. My statement is on the 12th. I get an email reminding me to submit readings about the 10th. If I submit on the 10th I get an actual (C) reading for the 10th and an estimate (E) for the 12th. The estimate is very close to the actual. If I submit on the 12th I only get an actual, not an estimate.

Thanks Nebulous2. That makes sense. My billing date is the 23rd and I submit on the 21st (when I get the reminder). Looking at the statements they have my reading from the 21st and estimate to the 23rd. I suppose it all comes out in the wash but for neatness I guess I should submit readings on the billing date.