Advice Please?: Are these comparison sites accurate?

MR.R_3

Hello All

After using the recommended comparison websites I recently switched to Atlantic from NPower (for Gas and Elec) but then Atlantic put their fees up! Doh!

Anyway deciding to try to switch again to the best provider I went back to the same comparison sites and put in the same figures I used before (i.e. when we were with Npower) and now find despite all the providers recent increases that Npower is STILL my best option again with a £250 saving.

How can this be cheaper than it was the last time I was with them, are these sites accurate?! Can anyone put my mind at reat before I switch back to Npower!

Many thanks

Mark

Cardew

Welcome to the forum.

What 'figures' did you put in?

If you put in your annual kWh consumption, and carefully specify what payment method you make, and want to make in future(they should be the same e.g. Direct Debit) they should be accurate.

Bear in mind that the objective(indeed the reason why they exist) of the comparison websites is to get you to change supplier so they get commission.

That said, for just about every combination of (dual fuel, pay by DD) data I put in, NPower comes out top for the Midlands.

pamelab21

I am getting really confused too.
I have gas with Atlantic and elec with Scottish Gas,
I am being told that if I want separate suppliers for both gas and elec then I am with the cheapest at the moment.
If I switch to one company for both gas and elec I will be best with NPower, saving a whole 20.00 a year.....is it worth it and is it accurate?
Are Npower paying them or are they really the cheapest.
(This was the same for uswitch and energyhelpline)

Ken68

Bamboozling the customer is the name of the game.
Like that tv comedy of a few years ago...'Never mind the quality, feel the width.'

X-man

I was in a similar situation a month ago. I'd used the comparison sites to get cheaper gas and electric through EDF, so decided to switch to them from Scottish Power. I did a check a few days later (just to make sure I'd made the right choice) and the comparison sites said that N-Power was now cheapest

I decided to compare EDF and N-Power tariffs the old fashioned way based on my actual consumption for both gas and electricity, and EDF were by far the cheapest but not showing at all on the comparison sites anymore.

I came to the conclusion that suppliers put good tarrifs on the comparison sites to attract customers. Once they have sufficient customers for that product, they remove that tarrif completely from any future comparisons.

I've just done another check on the comparison websites and it still shows N-Power as the cheapest (even though I know I've made the right switch to EDF, who are cheaper still)

Hope that makes some sense...............

Kimberley

I got the same thing, one time Scottish Power were cheaper for me and the next day it was Ebico, then the next day it was Scottish Power again Also not all companies let you get cashback from these sites.

helwarren

I'm in midlands and npower come out cheapest for gas and elec for me on uswitch by £93, however when used npower site it quoted me that I would be £21 worse off. Using the unit prices and calculating myself then was £20 better off by switching gas only. I wonder if comparison sites take into account the annual discount available with npower? -thats the only way I can see it is possible to make the saving it suggests