My Cheap Energy Club result is always rubbish

EssexHebridean

You chose not to extend your bolding of text to include the adjacent word “average” then? 

Apologies if I have missed it but I’m unclear how allowing that the rates on the special tariff are below the current SVR rates, it can be coming up higher than the SVR for you? Are you certain you’re not already on a previously available fix and so are currently paying below SVR anyway? 

Your use isn’t massively low - you’re using a similar amount of gas per annum to us, but less electricity.  I can’t check how that deal would have worked for us now as of course it has ended - and it wouldn’t be comparable for me in any event as we are on Agile, but from what I saw of the tariff it did appear that the unit prices would have been lower than the SVR for our region. 

rufford155

born_again said:

rufford155 said:

I do understand why I get a lousy result.

My usage is fairly low compared to average, so the daily charges dominate the total price paid.

So lower kWh prices don't help if the daily charges stay high.

I'm only imploring MSE to make this a lot clearer to everybody.

Best way is to contact them direct, via email.

See my very first post :-
I have complained strongly about this and even suggested that Martin should be made aware, but the replies don't give me any confidence that anything will change.

rufford155

EssexHebridean

No, I am NOT on a fix and that's the first thing they tell me when on login to Cheap Energy Club - since you have to input the name of your current tariff and that, presumably, is where they start the comparison.

Yes, that exclusive deal has ended, so the figures I posted above were the results that day.

When I complained directly by email, I was hoping for an explanation but the replies (from Beth) merely repeated the stuff already published in the weekly email, on the Club site and quoted by some folk here.

I have been trying it for months since my last fix ended early last year and have NEVER had saving better than just a few quid (under 10).

I am beginning to wonder if their calculations are wrong somehow so I am going to do some of my own which I will report on here (might be a few days)

EssexHebridean

There will be a unit rate and a standing charge in the quote you received - can you post what those were, along with the unit rate and standing charge you are paying currently? 

t0rt0ise

I agree with you. It is always rubbish. They try to guess at what the increases in the cap will be over the next year and compare against that. They say that's what they are doing.

Also when deleting your account it says all details will be deleted but when I rejoined it changed my suppliers in my account to what they had been before. So it had kept my details after deleting my account, or so it seems.

rufford155

EssexHebridean said:

There will be a unit rate and a standing charge in the quote you received - can you post what those were, along with the unit rate and standing charge you are paying currently? 

If you are offering to work it out, thanks, but as I said, I can do that myself.

I will try to post my spreadsheet when it's done.

born_again

rufford155 said:

born_again said:

rufford155 said:

I do understand why I get a lousy result.

My usage is fairly low compared to average, so the daily charges dominate the total price paid.

So lower kWh prices don't help if the daily charges stay high.

I'm only imploring MSE to make this a lot clearer to everybody.

Best way is to contact them direct, via email.

See my very first post :-
I have complained strongly about this and even suggested that Martin should be made aware, but the replies don't give me any confidence that anything will change.

If you want to make ML aware, & he no longer owns this site, he sold it off for 6 figures. Then post on his X account.

QrizB

born_again said:

If you want to make ML aware, & he no longer owns this site, he sold it off for 6 figures. Then post on his X account.

Eight figures, if memory serves?

Either way, it's no longer his train set.

rufford155

QrizB said:

born_again said:

If you want to make ML aware, & he no longer owns this site, he sold it off for 6 figures. Then post on his X account.

Eight figures, if memory serves?

Either way, it's no longer his train set.

But he still writes on the weekly email and I reckon he still has a controlling influence.

And he calls his wife Mrs MSE and his child Mini MSE !

He surely still has a role and even a job title, I think, and probably an office within the organisation.

Maybe not his train set but he's still nurturing his baby !

born_again

rufford155 said:

QrizB said:

born_again said:

If you want to make ML aware, & he no longer owns this site, he sold it off for 6 figures. Then post on his X account.

Eight figures, if memory serves?

Either way, it's no longer his train set.

But he still writes on the weekly email and I reckon he still has a controlling influence.

And he calls his wife Mrs MSE and his child Mini MSE !

He surely still has a role and even a job title, I think, and probably an office within the organisation.

Maybe not his train set but he's still nurturing his baby !

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