Bill Buddy

Jennings392

My flat is all electric and as you can imagine it is a little exspencive to keep warm I see an add for Bill Buddy and wounderd if anyone has heard of it, I have read reviews that rate it I just wounderd if anyone has used it or heard about it. Any advice would be great.
With thanks colin.

Robin9

Bill Buddy and the similar LAMB do nothing that you cannot do yourself and you can possibly do it better. 
All you have to do is put your actual consumption into a comparison site and see if you can get a better deal.  If you are already switching suppliers and keeping track of your consumption and bills carry on.

Gerry1

"the offers we present to you may not be the cheapest on the market at any given time"

That's all you need to know.

Jennings392

Thank you for replying and answering my questions 

wilkoone

I have just tried Bill Buddy. Theirr savings calc does not work for me... All they asked me for to do their calculations was a monthly spend on gas and a monthly spend on electricity. Asking for a monthly spend forced me into an annual average. In summer I use no gas at all. The switch offered had electric prices higher per unit (and standing charge.) than my current price. Gas was cheaper. If I switched, I would pay more from now until October .. not less. To do this accurately they need seasonal usage and better still monthly usage statistics for the year. A good idea but, in my opinion, without better input, flawed.
 

matelodave

wilkoone said:

I have just tried Bill Buddy. Theirr savings calc does not work for me... All they asked me for to do their calculations was a monthly spend on gas and a monthly spend on electricity. Asking for a monthly spend forced me into an annual average. In summer I use no gas at all. The switch offered had electric prices higher per unit (and standing charge.) than my current price. Gas was cheaper. If I switched, I would pay more from now until October .. not less. To do this accurately they need seasonal usage and better still monthly usage statistics for the year. A good idea but, in my opinion, without better input, flawed.
 

I fully agree but none of the comparison site work using seasonal consumption stats - they all use annual figures so it really relies on the customer being savvy enough to try and do his own sums to try and work out monthly consumption. Many on this site can, but most cant and there a woeful number of people who just don't understand how their heating works, how to read a bill or meter, what a kwh is or even worse how a dd is only a payment towards the bill and not the actual bill.

You just have to look at most of the threads and post that complain about the ginormous bills, dds or arrears that they've ramped up to understand just how bad it is - TBH most people would be better off if understanding and  working out an energy bill it was including in their basic education, along with reading and writing, rather than some of the guff they are supposed to learn nowadays.

Gerry1

wilkoone said:

Theirr savings calc does not work for me... All they asked me for to do their calculations was a monthly spend on gas and a monthly spend on electricity. Asking for a monthly spend forced me into an annual average.

It let me enter my annual kWh with no problem, so you must have done something wrong.  But thanks to Ofgem's crazy rules, it told me that a higher annual spend would save me money.  Idiotically, Bill Buddy asked for my night time percentage use of E7 (only to the nearest 5%) instead of the actual figure, needlessly introducing an error.  It also appears not to choose separate suppliers for you if they work out cheaper.

But the main criticism remains: "the offers we present to you may not be the cheapest on the market at any given time". 

JJ_Egan

See your identical post .