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Chrysalis

if british gas is showing as the cheapest then I suggest its for one of these reasons.

1 - you on a very expensive tariff already as british gas are defenitly not the cheapest provider.
2 - the price comparison site has the wrong details for your current tariff and as a result is giving you wrong results (happened to me). CHECK YOUR BILL FOR CURRENT UNIT RATE.
3 - you are entering wrong info.

I wouldnt just switch for the heck of it and assume you will save money. Martin has also started saying dont switch.

handful

Chrysalis - My current tarriff is showing as number 2 cheapest so I'm not paying over the odds and there isn't enough difference to warrant swapping so I won't be for now. What I don't understand is why the BG shows as cheapest when they are the only ones to have raised prices so far? I have used 2 or 3 comparison sites and they all come up with the same answer.

Ashes

Ive just had my new Staywarm price for the new year and its gone from £64 to £106.75 a month. This will put me on the middle band now. If I stayed in the lower band it would of been £82.60 a month.
My Gas usage was well within the amount I could use, but the Electric was up by 20%. I have Gas central heating and gas cooker.
I put my usage into (SwitchWise.com) and they came up with a saving of £906 a year with BG bearing in mind I use the same amount of Gas and Electric.
Now do I stay with Staywarm and reduce my Electric by 20% and hope next year I go back into the lower band.
Yea you got it, Ive no option but to switch and save my pennies, what would you do ?

FurnaceOP

Hi All,

This thread is a little outdated, but I want you all to be aware of an anomally I found when changing dual fuel supplier!
As Martin advised I was lucky to get the British Gas 2009 capped rate. But and its a (BIG but) the NEW rates that I was being fixed to are 40% more than my present suppliers capped rates are!
Very strange given that I was meant to pay just over £10 p/m more. I have stuck with my present suppliers rate... because i`m going to save 40% on the BG prices. :j

I wonder if anyone else has had the same anomally?

teenybe

Many weeks ago, when Martin's advice was that it's wise to do so, I started the process of changing from my current supplier (Scottish Hydro Electric) for gas and elec to a capped deal with e-on.

Today I received a call from Hydro to say that they don't want me to leave blah blah and 'Martin Lewis advises that you shouldn't be going onto a capped rate anyway'.

I wondered if anyone else had this and if Martin is aware of their tactics......:mad:

JimmyTheWig

Never had it myself, but it has been mentioned. Martin is aware of it.

Don't trust them when companies use what Martin says. This is a classic example. They are quite right that Martin is currently saying don't cap, but if you did so before the good caps all went then you have a good deal. They are taking something out of context and trying to use Martin to boost their profits at the consumer's expense - exactly the opposite of what this site is about.

hethmar

I had Npower on today asking me why I was leaving them. Told them I had a capped rate - they asked who with and I told them Scottish Power. A bit of tapping on a puter and then a sigh and yes, they are giving you a very competitive deal. If we can offer you something equal in the next few weeks would you come back to us? I said only if it were capped for a couple of years.

Hmm, wonder if they will.

Theo_Cupier

Well, I'm with Southern Electric who have just announced gas up by 29.2% and electricity up by 19.2% as from next Monday.

Assuming that the rises only apply to unit prices, not standing charges, that represents a rise of £344 / year for me.

According to confused.com I can move to Scottish & Southern's Fixed Price Energy Online No Standing Charge tariff which will "only" cost me an extra £156.84 / year thus "saving" £187.61.

Although oddly, using the same tariff data, Moneysupermarket has our annual consumption higher by £150, meaning we only "lose" £60 per year by switching to this same tariff!

Seems like the "best" option at the moment. Unless anyone knows different.

Also, it would be nice if I could find anything on the SSE or Southern Electric Websites actually confirming their new unit prices...

BigMarkUK

Ok this is my first post and has been brought on by my latest Dual fuel bill.

Could someone please tell me if the following kwh prices are high, average etc, I am with British Gas Dual Fuel (not sure which plan etc)

Elec:

22.380 pence for first 151 kwh
10.490 pence for next 2414 kwh

Gas:

6.151 pence for first 653.00 kwh
2.580 pence for next 2141.45

Thanks in advance

Chrysalis

BigMarkUK I pay a flat fee (same price for all usage) with no standing charge.

units as below.

10.6p electric
2.4p gas

so yes in my opinion yours is very high, not surprising for british gas, I am with atlantic.