Octopus Tracker

masonic

Doc_N said:

Meanwhile, the mysterious Tracker waiting list continues, allegedly still at 6 months. I wonder what the actual wait time might be. I hear and see different stories.

All it will take is a temporary price spike and the list will evaporate quite quickly.

anon_ymous

masonic said:

Doc_N said:

Meanwhile, the mysterious Tracker waiting list continues, allegedly still at 6 months. I wonder what the actual wait time might be. I hear and see different stories.

All it will take is a temporary price spike and the list will evaporate quite quickly.

I think that might have happened today with the gas? It used to say it's following the market rate and now it's saying it's a dynamic rate ie: 15p instead of just under 6p?

masonic

waqasahmed said:

masonic said:

Doc_N said:

Meanwhile, the mysterious Tracker waiting list continues, allegedly still at 6 months. I wonder what the actual wait time might be. I hear and see different stories.

All it will take is a temporary price spike and the list will evaporate quite quickly.

I think that might have happened today with the gas? It used to say it's following the market rate and now it's saying it's a dynamic rate ie: 15p instead of just under 6p?

I wonder if there has been some sort of mistake. It seems rather unlikely given we've just had a price plunge on electricity (Agile) and electricity Tracker is unaffected.

marlot

waqasahmed said:

masonic said:

Doc_N said:

Meanwhile, the mysterious Tracker waiting list continues, allegedly still at 6 months. I wonder what the actual wait time might be. I hear and see different stories.

All it will take is a temporary price spike and the list will evaporate quite quickly.

I think that might have happened today with the gas? It used to say it's following the market rate and now it's saying it's a dynamic rate ie: 15p instead of just under 6p?

I have the same.  I'm assuming a glitch.

OhhLongJohnson

The live price of UK gas has Not tripled so hopefully they'll quickly resolve it..

t0rt0ise

Fixed now! Same as yesterday now.

anon_ymous

t0rt0ise said:

Fixed now! Same as yesterday now.

Ah that's good. I was thinking ah sh*t

zoonyx

JohnPo said:

I agree, historically (i.e. before the Putin inspired energy crisis) folk with EVs would use Octopus Agile until autumn and then switch to Octopus Go and  switch back again to GO after winter - bit of historical context on pricing related to wholesale costs.

Tracker suddenly became interesting around late spring time 2022 when the 12 month fixed caps were a good protection against possible higher energy costs going into late autumn / winter.  The Government EPG support made both tracker and agile even better over the last 6 months - come 1st July when the EPG support ends all bets are off and the standard SVT tariff or other variants like Econ 7 or specific EV tariffs might be a  batter option depending on where wholesale are heading at that time.

Tracker and Agile going into into next winter based on latest caps without the government EPG support is a big risk and I expect folk to turn up on here moaning about it as they did not fully understand what they signed up to.

Probably.

I can't see how I can lose out though - even with crazy prices next winter, the money I've saved since October is borderline ridiculous.  And until it went on hotukdeals it seems not many had noticed it or quite realised the savings on offer.  If I have to take a small hit with higher prices, I will try and stick it out before cutting back to Flexi.

My bill last month was £92 - pretty sure it'll be less this month.  

Doc_N

masonic said:

Doc_N said:

Meanwhile, the mysterious Tracker waiting list continues, allegedly still at 6 months. I wonder what the actual wait time might be. I hear and see different stories.

All it will take is a temporary price spike and the list will evaporate quite quickly.

They’re now talking about the list being in excess of 6 months, and seem to be using it as a lever to get new customers onto their other tariffs with a sort of vague half promise they they might at some point in the future deign to allow you to switch to Tracker. So if you don’t switch to their standard tariff you get nowhere. But if you do, you may well also get nowhere.

Have to say that my dealings with Octopus suggest a chaotic, unresponsive company chasing customers - very far from the image its CEO likes to project. Wondering now just how stable it actually is, after all the new customers, and how close it is to a lot of bad PR.

millie

zoonyx said:

JohnPo said:

I agree, historically (i.e. before the Putin inspired energy crisis) folk with EVs would use Octopus Agile until autumn and then switch to Octopus Go and  switch back again to GO after winter - bit of historical context on pricing related to wholesale costs.

Tracker suddenly became interesting around late spring time 2022 when the 12 month fixed caps were a good protection against possible higher energy costs going into late autumn / winter.  The Government EPG support made both tracker and agile even better over the last 6 months - come 1st July when the EPG support ends all bets are off and the standard SVT tariff or other variants like Econ 7 or specific EV tariffs might be a  batter option depending on where wholesale are heading at that time.

Tracker and Agile going into into next winter based on latest caps without the government EPG support is a big risk and I expect folk to turn up on here moaning about it as they did not fully understand what they signed up to.

Probably.

I can't see how I can lose out though - even with crazy prices next winter, the money I've saved since October is borderline ridiculous.  And until it went on hotukdeals it seems not many had noticed it or quite realised the savings on offer.  If I have to take a small hit with higher prices, I will try and stick it out before cutting back to Flexi.

My bill last month was £92 - pretty sure it'll be less this month.  

My thoughts too I have saved so much that even a few weeks at higher prices I could live with. I do not use much in the summer anyway