Cheap Energy Club - Add discounts?

mr_jrt

Is there a way to apply discounts to your current tariff so comparisons etc are accurate? My British Gas tariff was due to expire so I begun a switch away and the chap in the retentions department I spoke to gave me a 16% discount to stay. Great, but I can't seem to apply that to my CEC profile so my comparisons are accurate. Is there something I've missed that would let me do that, and if not, can it please be added?

Gerry1

16% off what?

Just work out what you'd be paying in a year then start comparing with Citizens Advice and 'Which? Switch', using annual kWh usage derived from actual meter readings.

Don't forget that separate suppliers are probably cheaper.

Neil_Jones

mr_jrt said:

Is there a way to apply discounts to your current tariff so comparisons etc are accurate? My British Gas tariff was due to expire so I begun a switch away and the chap in the retentions department I spoke to gave me a 16% discount to stay. Great, but I can't seem to apply that to my CEC profile so my comparisons are accurate. Is there something I've missed that would let me do that, and if not, can it please be added?

I think you might have misunderstood as it's my understanding (happy to be corrected) that you can't do "x% off" in energy.  Everybody on the same tariff in the same area pays the same.  Are you sure it wasn't a new tariff that just happened to be 16% cheaper than what you were currently paying?

mr_jrt

Nope, I'm now on their HomeEnergy Fix Mar 2022 and they then applied a 16% discount to both the unit rates and the standing charges, so instead of paying 26.074p/day for gas, I'm paying 21.90p/day, and instead of 3.482p/kwh I'm paying 2.925p/kwh. Same deal for the electricity.

Obviously, those aren't the prices for the tariff in the comparison tool, so it's throwing off all my comparisons, hence my request.