Compare suppliers by paper billing

locky123

Trying to help an elderly neighbour who wants paper billing and dont know if it's possible to get a comparison by filtering out online billing. My initial searches seem to think not.

footyguy

locky123 wrote: »

Trying to help an elderly neighbour who wants paper billing and dont know if it's possible to get a comparison by filtering out online billing. My initial searches seem to think not.

Keep searching...
It is possible. EHL, for example, has the option to filter by paper billing (in additional filters) but I am no longer a big fan of that particular comparison site since they have removed tariff details of the tariffs they cannot switch you to. (They list the suppliers & tariffs but don't give the tariff details that make up the annual cost)

Probably easiest just to do a complete comparison and start at the top to see if that supplier & tariff will provide paper-based billing (usually for a small cost, say £5 extra per year per fuel)

locky123

footyguy wrote: »

Keep searching...

I'll try ringing a few suppliers. Can I initiate the switch on behalf?

footyguy

locky123 wrote: »

..Can I initiate the switch on behalf?

Not usually ... unless things are in place for you to act on behlaf of your elderly neighbour. The fact you asked the question makes me presume it is not.

Best to explain the options available to your elderly neighbour and then let the elderly neighbour decide what to do about it, if anything.

I appreciate you are trying to assist your elderly neighbour, but sometimes it is best to simply admit you are not really in a suitable position to provide such help.

Why not simply suggest to your elederly neighbour where she can get some good advice from, such as the CAB?
Or even possibly the phone numbers of the comparison sites listed on here so she can call them - although they may only offer her options that they can switch her to over the phone.

(That's assuming your elderly neighbour is not computer literate, because if she was, you could simply point her to this site where she can read all the useful info for herself, perhaps create her own user id and post here, or simply follow the advice and consult a comparison site)

macman

If they are OK with you handling the switch for them online, then they may well be OK for you to handle the admin and billing online. To get a decent deal they will need to accept monthly DD payment. You could simply offer to print out the quarterly statement for them.