Martin Lewis: A trick for Shell Energy (and Octopus) customers to make some money

MultiFuelBurner

I do like the idea of the random code generator here for those transferring to Octopus and we would put our code in the hat. That way @MSE_James that could satisfy privacy rules?

@QrizB thanks for posting that.

pfpf

Chrysalis said:

This referral nonsense, I havent yet to find a single person to refer.

No family members or friends interested, a guy on another forum took my code and then told me a day later he used someone else's instead.   Wish it was easy.

same, i do't do forums other than here so don't see how i can get any. its family that i don't get. iv'e done so much from a financial POV for them over the years (help) and i'm their go to for help/advice but none of them will touch "tracker", i am sure some have a tracker mortgage.

Chrysalis

pfpf said:

Chrysalis said:

This referral nonsense, I havent yet to find a single person to refer.

No family members or friends interested, a guy on another forum took my code and then told me a day later he used someone else's instead.   Wish it was easy.

same, i do't do forums other than here so don't see how i can get any. its family that i don't get. iv'e done so much from a financial POV for them over the years (help) and i'm their go to for help/advice but none of them will touch "tracker", i am sure some have a tracker mortgage.

I spent loads of effort with one family member, she seemed to agree finally but only for her partner to say no not interested even though they were paying double what I pay.  But between them they comfortably in top 10% of earners in country so energy costs for them is likely not of any concern.  Another is in energy debt so a no go.

Might speak to my parents on it although it would just be for the £50 freebie for both of us, wont want to put them on tracker as I dont think they would fully understand it.

IslesmanSY

If you gas with Shell and Electricity with Octopus, is it possible to “refer” yourself😁

Spoonie_Turtle

IslesmanSY said:

If you gas with Shell and Electricity with Octopus, is it possible to “refer” yourself😁

No, it's not a referral reward per fuel it's per person/household.

@MSE_James that's a fair point about privacy and makes sense, thank you.

Katiehound

I am well pleased that I saw the Shell logo at the side of the forum page & read Martin's tip.

I have ( or more accurately had) Shell energy and it would have been moved over to Octopus automatically. Asked round my friends and one is using Octopus so they sent me the referral code and my switch went through today. £50 each.  The quote for DD was a few £s cheaper than I currently pay. There is no exit fee so in theory I could switch in a few  months.

Thanks MSE

Shame the referrers board has gone because I had a couple of banking deals from other long time forum users.

Mjc_100

That's great I'm currently with shell but don't know anyone with octopus

BellaBlondykeTheThird

Mjc_100 said:

That's great I'm currently with shell but don't know anyone with octopus

I am sure you have mail a plenty. Act fast though likely octopus will close this loophole soon.

Spoonie_Turtle

Mjc_100 said:

That's great I'm currently with shell but don't know anyone with octopus

I thought 'oh I'm sure there'll be loads if you Google it' (which there are, people sharing them along with promises of paying people extra themselves - ???) but people also have them on eBay!  Just listing them, not to sell, but I'm sure that violates some T&Cs of eBay at least, if not Octopus.

If you search on any social media platform there are loads.  Ethically speaking it might be better to go with codes posted by identifiable individuals rather than faceless accounts set up for the sole purpose of coming high up the search results.

QrizB

A reminder of the forum rules:

This includes codes sent by PM.