Can you haggle with your energy provider?

ratechaser

House_Martin wrote: »

NO you cannot haggle whatsover,dont even try.You would nt stand at the till at Sainsburys and try and knock the price down.Maybe you have heard that its possible to haggle a bit with suppliers from a business user. They can, and do haggle .The more energy they use the better position they are for a bit of haggling ..don t try it on domestics though.The published prices for your area are all on the comparison websites if you get an accurate yearly consumption for your property from your supplier

No I wouldn't haggle over a box of cornflakes at Sainsbury because frankly I have better things to do with my time. I absolutely would haggle at John Lewis where something significant (like my last TV) was £300 less elsewhere. Likewise if I see Npower offering a tariff that's about £240/year cheaper than the best I can get from my current provider (which I have already researched via several comparison websites, based on accurate consumption data that I have already sourced), why wouldn't I want to try and twist their arm in exactly the same way I've done with Sky, BT, Virgin, Vodafone etc...?

Oh yes. Regulation. Got it. We have to protect those little old grannies from the big mean old utilities...

ChaunceyGardiner

Haggling over business contracts or luxury goods and services is one thing. Haggling over a basic, universal necessity, such as energy, is something else. What's next, haggling over your Council Tax liability?

Raxiel

ChaunceyGardiner wrote: »

Haggling over business contracts or luxury goods and services is one thing. Haggling over a basic, universal necessity, such as energy, is something else. What's next, haggling over your Council Tax liability?

Like this you mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGLkkCNlW9U

ChaunceyGardiner

Lol. At least Margo was prepared to pay the going rate once the work was completed.

ratechaser

ChaunceyGardiner wrote: »

Haggling over business contracts or luxury goods and services is one thing. Haggling over a basic, universal necessity, such as energy, is something else. What's next, haggling over your Council Tax liability?

Yes, good point. In fact why don't we just abolish all competition given the special nature of utilities, then we can have a single state supplier with one tariff and none of this pesky shopping around that is soooooo unseemly.

Jeremy Corbyn would be thrilled... :rotfl:

tori.k

I haven't even been able to haggle a direct debit based on my annual usage as they use an estimate dispite having a years readings from us and themselves, and the account being over a hundred quid in credit to add insult, they must have decided we are planning to add electric heating or something this year