Avro Energy reviews: Give your feedback

Gerry1

"Simple and UGlow" doesn't yield results in an online search, so it's probably a tariff exclusive to Uswitch (note the U in UGlow) that happens to work out a bit more expensive in your case.

Telegraph_Sam

Hate to ask this, not knowing the facts, but are you doing your own number crunching when doing comparisons, or relying on search engine projections??  I take these now as first indications only and never to be taken at face value. It wouldn't surprise me if the latter did indeed lead to discrepancies.

2010

Gerry1 said:

"Simple and UGlow" doesn't yield results in an online search, so it's probably a tariff exclusive to Uswitch (note the U in UGlow) that happens to work out a bit more expensive in your case.

Simple and UGlow12M (Currently Available) is on the Avro site so not exclusive to Uswitch.
The only comparison site I`ve come across with all the tariffs is citizens advice.

Biggus_Dickus

alinkliter said:

What's the latest with AVRO then? Are they worth switching to?
I've noticed that if I do a price comparison directly with AVRO the price is about £55 per annum less than a price comparison website.
Is this normal and correct or is it possible AVRO are not giving me the correct amounts which may encourage me to switch?

In my experience Avro’s website is 100% accurate with regard to quotes etc.

 

 

 

Gerry1

2010 said:

Gerry1 said:

"Simple and UGlow" doesn't yield results in an online search, so it's probably a tariff exclusive to Uswitch (note the U in UGlow) that happens to work out a bit more expensive in your case.

Simple and UGlow12M (Currently Available) is on the Avro site so not exclusive to Uswitch.
The only comparison site I`ve come across with all the tariffs is citizens advice.

It may be shown on the Avro site as one of their available tariffs, but that doesn't mean they will offer it to you directly.

Has anyone seen it offered directly by Avro or via other comparison sites?

2010

Gerry1 said:

2010 said:

Gerry1 said:

"Simple and UGlow" doesn't yield results in an online search, so it's probably a tariff exclusive to Uswitch (note the U in UGlow) that happens to work out a bit more expensive in your case.

Simple and UGlow12M (Currently Available) is on the Avro site so not exclusive to Uswitch.
The only comparison site I`ve come across with all the tariffs is citizens advice.

It may be shown on the Avro site as one of their available tariffs, but that doesn't mean they will offer it to you directly.

Has anyone seen it offered directly by Avro or via other comparison sites?

If you put your postcode in on the Avro site and they then give you a drop down list of tariffs that are currently available
for your postcode, why wouldn`t they then offer you it?

Gerry1

2010 said:

Gerry1 said:

2010 said:

Gerry1 said:

"Simple and UGlow" doesn't yield results in an online search, so it's probably a tariff exclusive to Uswitch (note the U in UGlow) that happens to work out a bit more expensive in your case.

Simple and UGlow12M (Currently Available) is on the Avro site so not exclusive to Uswitch.
The only comparison site I`ve come across with all the tariffs is citizens advice.

It may be shown on the Avro site as one of their available tariffs, but that doesn't mean they will offer it to you directly.

Has anyone seen it offered directly by Avro or via other comparison sites?

If you put your postcode in on the Avro site and they then give you a drop down list of tariffs that are currently available for your postcode, why wouldn`t they then offer you it?

By definition, if a tariff is exclusive to certain price comparison websites then it won't be shown on the energy company's own website.  Lots of energy companies do this.

Same with insurance companies, your renewal is probably far more expensive than the quotation they will offer to a new customer.

Biggus_Dickus

2010 said:

Gerry1 said:

2010 said:

Gerry1 said:

"Simple and UGlow" doesn't yield results in an online search, so it's probably a tariff exclusive to Uswitch (note the U in UGlow) that happens to work out a bit more expensive in your case.

Simple and UGlow12M (Currently Available) is on the Avro site so not exclusive to Uswitch.
The only comparison site I`ve come across with all the tariffs is citizens advice.

It may be shown on the Avro site as one of their available tariffs, but that doesn't mean they will offer it to you directly.

Has anyone seen it offered directly by Avro or via other comparison sites?

If you put your postcode in on the Avro site and they then give you a drop down list of tariffs that are currently available
for your postcode, why wouldn`t they then offer you it?

It’s a reasonable question I guess. That drop-down list contains 7 Avro tariffs that are appended with ‘Currently Available’... four of which are (I assume ) only available if you access them via the  appropriate price comparison website;...provided  you can actually locate said comparison website that is.

The other three tariffs appended  ‘Currently Available’ are Avro’s SVR tariff, a Pay as You Go tariff and a final mysterious tariff called ‘Simple&Superconnect’.

Conversely Avro’s current go-to tariff ‘Simple&Superglow’ is not  marked ‘Currently Available’... even though it obviously is.

I dunno;...perhaps Avro need to catch up on their housekeeping or sumfink.

2010

Simple and Superglow which was available this morning (at least in my area) on Avro site has now been pulled and replaced by Simple and Superconnect.

Is there any comparison sites that can switch you to Avro?
I don`t think Avro pay any of them to switch you and that`s why many of them don`t even include Avro in their calculations.

Biggus_Dickus

2010 said:

Simple and Superglow which was available this morning (at least in my area) on Avro site has now been pulled and replaced by Simple and Superconnect.

Is there any comparison sites that can switch you to Avro?
I don`t think Avro pay any of them to switch you and that`s why many of them don`t even include Avro in their calculations.

Thanks for that;...it explains why Superconnect has suddenly appeared. Obviously Avro are on top of their housekeeping!

I’ve just done a renewal quote via Avro’s website;...Simple&Superconnect is about £40/yr more than Simple&Superglow for me so I’ll be staying put. I’ve still got almost 12-months left to run on Superglow.

As for comparison site switching, I’m no expert whatsoever but I’ve noticed a few incentive driven Avro tariffs over the years but they never seemed particularly competitive and were always more expensive than switching directly via Avro’s own website.

I assume (perhaps wrongly) that the extra tariff cost on the comparison sites is calculated to offset any commission/cashback etc that Avro would need to pay.