Is switching to EBIco worth it?

Ice_2

barjam wrote: »

we are in the n,east also, and the gas is £2.59 but it says the elec is £9.78 (on their site) how is yours £9.90? ... yours though sounds similar to ours apart from the differ in the elec, so i wonder why we cant get the care tariff do you think we should query it again

from what I can gather if you are not disabled you have to spend 20% of your annual earning's on your fuel...if you are disabled it's 10%...so I don't know and the electric is 9.90p and not 9.78p I don't know why I did ask about this and he said it was for different area's of the northeast...beat's me..

alared

http://www.ebico.co.uk/website2008/pages4/home4.php

Ice_2

yep brand new website for Ebico...got an email off them saying so and very nice it is too...lovely people at Ebico...:D

mushypeaman

I'm an Ebico customer. Just got an email from them saying that they are NOT going to put up their prices for gas and electricity.

Premier_2

Price of EquiGas and EquiPower to rise from the 1st of April 2008
Ebico today (Friday) announced the first change in the EquiGas and EquiPower domestic gas and electricity supply tariffs since September 2006. As from the 1st of April 2008, the price of EquiGas will rise by 12% and the price of EquiPower will rise by an average of 15%.

Source: http://www.ebico.co.uk/html/x_news_self.php?subaction=showfull&id=1206698277&archive=&start_from=&ucat=2,3&



Still cheapest for me though

rmg1

Sol00 wrote: »

Thanks for the help. I've ordered an information pack from their website, so hopefully that will convince her to switch.

Can you tell me where you got the information pack from?
Just had a look on their website and couldn't find one anywhere.

squiggles

for rmg1

hers you go mate

https://www.ebico.org.uk/cgi-bin/ebicoapp3.cgi?appltype=4

T'Pau

Premier wrote: »

Source: http://www.ebico.co.uk/html/x_news_self.php?subaction=showfull&id=1206698277&archive=&start_from=&ucat=2,3&



Still cheapest for me though

The first I knew of this (I am looking at this retrospectively) was when I received a letter today, 18th April, notifying me of an increase effective 1st April (how apt), nearly three weeks ago. Of course the letter was issued by 2nd class post.

This also means that, unless you are very cautious/methodical/suspicious any usage pre 1/4 (i.e. at the cheaper rate) will have to be estimated as the opportunity to take an actual reading is now gone (Tardis permitting). Whose favour might that be in?

How very ethical. Like Nationwide BS - Proud to be different, sorry the same.:rolleyes:

Cardew

T'Pau wrote: »

The first I knew of this (I am looking at this retrospectively) was when I received a letter today, 18th April, notifying me of an increase effective 1st April (how apt), nearly three weeks ago. Of course the letter was issued by 2nd class post.

This also means that, unless you are very cautious/methodical/suspicious any usage pre 1/4 (i.e. at the cheaper rate) will have to be estimated as the opportunity to take an actual reading is now gone (Tardis permitting). Whose favour might that be in?

How very ethical. Like Nationwide BS - Proud to be different, sorry the same.:rolleyes:

2 points.

If you now decide to leave Ebico because of their price rise(and I am not suggesting you should) when you notify them, you will revert to the pre-April 1st price tariff.

So late notification, and they have several weeks to notify you, can actually work to your advantage.

The subject of pre/post rise estimation of units has been covered loads of times in this forum.

It is worked out by a sophisticated algorith that takes into account seasonal factors like weather.

If you feel that you have special circumstances(e.g. you have been on holiday for the last 2 weeks) a phone call to them and they will re-adjust the estimated consumption.

alared

For once I agree with my old mate Cardew:T

On the 31st March I entered my meter readings online, via Southern, and received the correct gas and electricity bills about a week later.
This takes me right up to the new prices that began on 1st April.

But as Cardew rightly pointed out anyone that didn`t enter their readings at the end of March,will have their bills adjusted to take into account units used at the old and new prices.
A similar thing always happens with water bills.