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Last Thursday an attractive young lady came to the house*. She convinced me that Scottish Power was cheaper than my current supplier (Southern Electric). The next day the price went up !!

Although the form I signed referred to July 08 prices, I rang today and they told me that my price will go up. She gave me the new prices, and told me to check with Southern Electric for comparison before they cancel the contract. Scottish were much cheaper for three rates:

Scottish / Southern.

First 225kw 16.124 10.993
Daytime 10.993 14.95
Night 5.745 6.79

I would probably have bought gas off her for our all-electric house !! :rotfl::D

donaldtramp

If you are going to switch to BG online dual fuel and have a quidco account. USE YOUR QUIDCO account. You get £60 quid for a dual fuel sign up rather than following Martins click throughs to EnergyHelpline, uswitch etc etc.

I'm pretty sure Martin can miss a wee bit of the revenue he gets from the click-throughs from MSE. ( He won't be shy of a bob or two from them as it is)

Have a look youself on the Quidco site (as of 2/9/08 £25 offered for single fuel sale and £60 for dual fuel)

Cheers
DT

ikr2

In August I did a comparison via Money Supermarket to try and get onto a capped dual fuel tariff. Scottish Power won out. A week ago I got a letter from both them and my current supplier, Atlantic saying that they couldn't switch because Scottish don't offer a tariff for the Economy 2000 meter (which apparently I have).

Hang on- according to a Google search, Economy 2000 give you 18 hours of cheap electricity per day - we do not have that!

So anyway I am staying with Atlantic for now for both fuels. I will have a month with Scottish on gas as that had already gone through but going back to Atlantic after to keep the dual fuel saving.

Two questions:
1) Anyone else had this problem with Economy 2000? Although both suppliers reckon I have it, I do not. I wonder if I should go back to them and question this further.
2) MSE now says switch but I am wary of doing so as I have just gone through the above and am not yet back with Atlantic for has. Should I shop around or do I wait a month for things to settle?

qbazdz

Hello everybody.
Could somebody help me out.
I am currently with E.ON on Energy Online Extra Saver 5 with prices like this
Electricity
Normal units up to 900 kWhs
24.4755 pence
Normal units
9.3345 pence per kWh
Gas
Normal units up to 2680 kWhs
6.52995 pence
Normal units
3.5574 pence per kWh

I am paying mothly direct debit of 91quid for both of them.
I am moving house and was wondering if it was better to take it with me or get something else?
The new house is with EDF at the moment.

Any suggestions are much appriciated.

13roses

hi any one thinking of changing to edf energy pre payment meters dont switch to them as i have and the charged me £15 for 5 days of electric when i phoned up about this they said i have been charged 48p standing charge a day plus bits and bats from the past month or so????? what ? i asked u can not do this i thought it was a pay as i use and she replied that that is not the case some times they take no standing charge and then one day take what i owe in one lump sum this is very unfair they should not be allowed to do this BEWARNED.

OberonSH

Hi, I've done a comparisn online, at it shows E-on Online saver being cheaper by far, but according to Martin's chart they haven't had a price rise yet. Does anyone know if one's expected? He mentions the comparison sites change upon announce, not actual change, so does this mean actually the cheapest one on the list that have already increased will actually be the cheapest for now?

k2468

I have just switched from e.on standard rate to edf energy's capped rate, by phone. (Apparently their website is not working properly this am.) Their rates are currently cheaper than my existing rate and even though it will take up to 8 weeks for the switch to go through they guarantee the rate quoted today for the period of the cap, which is till end of October 09!!

pjala

Switching edf to BG dual fuel on line - how long is the normal time for it to take to get from one to another supplier? My fixed rate tariff with edf finishes on end of september, and want to take full advantage of it.

black_taxi_2

its so confusing--diff companies-diff tariffs--same company-diff tariffs

its one big con---- all it it together having a laugh

my tariffs have gone 12.71-11.70 too 15.25--14.04--standard--npower

anyone help

handful

I think it's worth mentioning here, and the advice is there in Martin's article on switching (but easily missed) that some of the providers, BG included are playing a very clever con trick.

They raise their prices, wait for the competitors to do the same but they leave their 'online' account rates unchanged until they catch all the people switching away from the competitors. So when people do a comparison they think that the rate for tariffs like the Click Energy 5 will save them loads of money not realising that the rates quoted do not reflect the increased BG rate. The truth is that soon after switching they find that the online rates follow suit and they have switched for nothing or to the wrong company.

I don't know about you but I think this is nothing short of scandalous :mad:

BG are by no means on their own either, my current proveiders are Scottish Power and they have done the same. My advice is make sure you check this to see whether online tariffs have been raised in line with standard.
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/you-switch-gas-electricity#indicator2