Octopus Tracker

Telegraph_Sam

At the risk of using hindsight you could say that the / a winter political-economic crisis is not the ideal time to start playing around with different tariffs. You would expect life for Agile people to be particularly exciting at present, followed by Tracker, with hopefully the Fixed as a "safe" haven.

Tks for drawing my attention to the Octopus reversal of policy on exit fees. I would have gone stumbling along without knowing till it was too late. Is this a universal change or one that affects only selected (fixed?) tariffs? New ones since they shouldn't want to change the T 's and C's of existing tariffs.

Slinky

Crikey, I've just checked fixed prices, and they've gone up again! I fixed gas at 5.27p yesterday morning, it was 5.83p with a £50 exit fee by the evening, and now it's 6.25p with £75 exit fee.

Doc_N

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81909167#Comment_81909167

The fixes have gone up a lot - unsurprisingly - although there are one or two around worth considering, depending on your view of how long the chaos in the Middle East and its knock-on effects are going to last. The best ones have gone, but if you get the timing right you can save a fortune as against Tracker - Tracker would have cost me hugely more this winter, even leaving aside the current rates.

The mistake some make is comparing Tracker with the capped price and calculating the savings on that. The correct comparison is against the other (fixed price) options and Tracker has not compared well. These prices come and go, of course - timing is everything.

TH71

Tracker September 2025 v1 Electricity tariff in the East Midlands tomorrow fallen to 28.56p/kWh

Mon 02/03/26	22.50p/kWh
Tue 03/03/26	26.20p/kWh
Wed 04/03/26	29.61p/kWh
Thu 05/03/26	28.56p/kWh