Octopus Energy takes on Avro customers

egyptiancotton

masonic said:

Readings go through a process of validation before they are confirmed. Suppliers often show unvalidated readings. Octopus seems content they will be able to get hold of the readings being submitted to Avro, so hopefully that will be the case, but if not you'll have your own record and evidence to back it up.

Forgot about the validation process. Thanks for the reminder. 

xlnc99

This is bad news for everyone. Oct are very expensive and you can find cheaper ones everywhere

I think i will be switching quite soon

Al_Ross

savers_united said:

Octopus pay £100 for each new customer referrel.
They have just taken on few hundred thousand and not paid any referrel fees and will likely get some support for taking on Avro customers, not a bad bit of business for them. 

It's normally £50 for dual fuel and £25 for single, very occasionally special occasions like anniversaries £100 is paid.

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xlnc99 said:

This is bad news for everyone. Oct are very expensive and you can find cheaper ones everywhere

I think i will be switching quite soon

They've said they offer ex avro customers a special rate, not offered to anyone else including new octopus customers from elsewhere. 

masonic

Al_Ross said:

savers_united said:

Octopus pay £100 for each new customer referrel.
They have just taken on few hundred thousand and not paid any referrel fees and will likely get some support for taking on Avro customers, not a bad bit of business for them. 

It's normally £50 for dual fuel and £25 for single, very occasionally special occasions like anniversaries £100 is paid.

For Octopus it's £50 each to referrer and referred including single fuel and has been like that for a long time. That's a total of £100. Perhaps you are thinking of Bulb (they did double for anniversaries)?

See https://octopus.energy/blog/octopus-referrals/

xlnc99

DeletedUser said:

xlnc99 said:

This is bad news for everyone. Oct are very expensive and you can find cheaper ones everywhere

I think i will be switching quite soon

They've said they offer ex avro customers a special rate, not offered to anyone else including new octopus customers from elsewhere. 

Yeh i read that but im not so sure. They are so expensive even a special rate i still dont think will be cheaper. 

bagand96

xlnc99 said:

This is bad news for everyone. Oct are very expensive and you can find cheaper ones everywhere

I think i will be switching quite soon

You'll get a tariff that's in line with the current Ofgem price cap.  (Or just below it if what Octopus say it correct).

At the moment, you won't find anything cheaper.

2010

xlnc99 said:

This is bad news for everyone. Oct are very expensive and you can find cheaper ones everywhere

I think i will be switching quite soon

You`ll be struggling to find anything cheaper than what Octopus will offer.
Doing a comparison today using Octopus SVR capped tariff (£1277) for 1st Oct. there was nothing cheaper.
The fixed deals were in the £1750 plus area.

xlnc99

Ive just written on the other thread

ive had a look on citizens advice and everyone is cheaper then OCT

Infact, ive found a tariff cheaper then what i was on AVRO

Have you checked Citizens website? OCT are expensive 

I am look at fixed prices btw only

t1redmonkey

Does anyone have details of exactly what the tariff details are (price per kwH etc)?  I just see that they're calling it the 'Flexible Octopus' tariff at the moment.