Octopus Energy free octopus

K1977

I have recently became a customer of Octopus Energy and have applied for one of their free giant octopus cuddly toys, just wondering if anyone has any experience of this, did you get your octopus and if so how long did it take? I am really hoping it arrives before christmas as my son really wants one and it would be a nice surprise 

MWT

They send them out in batches so it just depends on when the next batch of them comes into stock.

can be anywhere from a few days to several weeks if there is no stock at the moment.

EssexHebridean

For a moment there I thought "Free Octopus" had to be some super-cheap tariff that someone had found!

K1977

EssexHebridean said:

For a moment there I thought "Free Octopus" had to be some super-cheap tariff that someone had found!

Ha Ha, sorry about that 🤣

Qew

@K1977 Thanks for mentioning this. Being an ex-Avro customer put onto Octopus Energy, this wasn't mentioned. Still, I've just applied, and it's coming this way... eventually. It'll be a good present for a niece.

K1977

Qew said:

@K1977 Thanks for mentioning this. Being an ex-Avro customer put onto Octopus Energy, this wasn't mentioned. Still, I've just applied, and it's coming this way... eventually. It'll be a good present for a niece.

Yes I'm ex avro too! I only found out about the octopus whilst searching the website finding out more info about the company so as soon as my account was set up and I had an account number I applied straightaway, just hope it arrives for christmas 🤞

dbks

It's a puppet! and only a finger one at that!

Thinking of their green credentials they like to promote, would it not be better to ask them to plant a tree on your behalf, rather than send you this bit of tut, that will probably soon end up in landfill?

MWT

dbks said:

Thinking of their green credentials they like to promote, would it not be better to ask them to plant a tree on your behalf, rather than send you this bit of tut, that will probably soon end up in landfill?

... and that is of course an option they offer...

Here is the whole story for anyone interested...

https://octopus.energy/blog/octopus-toys/

worrywart_3

dbks said:

It's a puppet! and only a finger one at that!

Thinking of their green credentials they like to promote, would it not be better to ask them to plant a tree on your behalf, rather than send you this bit of tut, that will probably soon end up in landfill?

You can ask for the giant one 

K1977

dbks said:

It's a puppet! and only a finger one at that!

Thinking of their green credentials they like to promote, would it not be better to ask them to plant a tree on your behalf, rather than send you this bit of tut, that will probably soon end up in landfill?

Those are the smaller version you can apply for, you also have the choice of the giant octopus too!

dbks

K1977 said:

I have recently became a customer of Octopus Energy and have applied for one of their free giant octopus cuddly toys, just wondering if anyone has any experience of this, did you get your octopus and if so how long did it take? I am really hoping it arrives before christmas as my son really wants one and it would be a nice surprise 

To give you an idea, as no one seems to have actually adressed your question. in May 2020, Octopus said:

"Since March 2019 we have sent 3,594 large octopus plushies"

By comparison, at the end of April 2020, Octopus boasted 2.3m accounts (1.4m households), which had risen to 3.9m accounts (2.1m households) as of April 2021, and is presumably much higher now, not least by the taking on of almost 600,000 Avro customers.

The big ones in particular (as well as the small ones nowdays) apparently arrive on a slow boat from China.  How green is that?

Anyway, you do the maths as to when to expect yours.