Octopus - Octoplus Rewards (points/money off/free electricity)

Spoonie_Turtle

EssexHebridean said:

It does specifically state on the website that the notifications around the free electricity will be by email. Hopefully it is just a wording thing and they will send push notifications as well though! 

Oh maybe I misunderstood the information because I was reading something about notifications only being through the app.  Maybe that was just for the savings sessions.

Newbie_John

Two main problems I see with this is:
1) We may get 1 or 2 free hours in the next 6 months - so much hope but it may not be a big deal.
2) Off-loading the usage during peak hours - not much info about that, and especially coming towards winter. My summer usage between 4pm-7pm is about 2kW but during winter (electric heating) it could be even 20kW. I would be happy to switch off heating between 4pm-7pm if it saved me a decent amount but I honestly see Octopus giving me some kind of target of achieving 1kW to save 20p.. which I may not bother (although it will be mighty 500 points :-D)

EssexHebridean

Yes - the savings sessions did refer to notifications through the app now I think about it. That's probably why the reference to email particularly stood out to me, when I come to think about it. 

Jinglish

Email just feels so dated and not very Octopus like

Qyburn

Jinglish said:

Email just feels so dated and not very Octopus like

On the other hand everyone has email, and it can be read in all sorts of ways, not just on one specific ssmartphone.

masonic

Hopefully they'll have a dedicated Twitter account again that can be followed with notifications turned on.

born_again

Newbie_John said:

The point ratio is ridiculous - 800 points = £1
We all prefer to get 100s of points than 3 

This is MSE, anything for free is better than nothing 👍

deano2099

Jinglish said:

Email just feels so dated and not very Octopus like

I feel like email is having a weird renaissance now - so many bands etc. I've previously only engaged with on social media seem to have launched mailing lists in the past few months.

Newbie_John

born_again said:

Newbie_John said:

The point ratio is ridiculous - 800 points = £1
We all prefer to get 100s of points than 3 

This is MSE, anything for free is better than nothing 👍

I was more talking about the confusing rate points to pound.
It's just the marketing gimmicky that we all prefer getting 200 points than 25p - otherwise they would do 100 points = £1, to make it simple.

masonic

Newbie_John said:

born_again said:

Newbie_John said:

The point ratio is ridiculous - 800 points = £1
We all prefer to get 100s of points than 3 

This is MSE, anything for free is better than nothing 👍

I was more talking about the confusing rate points to pound.
It's just the marketing gimmicky that we all prefer getting 200 points than 25p - otherwise they would do 100 points = £1, to make it simple.

We might prefer 200 points if they introduce a method of redeeming that is worth more than 25p to us.