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Personmwooly10
31/12/2014 at 12:54am
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I stopped changing a few years ago and have been with EDF for a fair few years now.. I have a 2 bed house, i usually stay up til the early hours, so lights/tv/pc and what have you are on quite a bit, i think last year i used about £1000 for both gas and elec.. cant see me saving much that i would notice

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Personlockie
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Join the MSE energy club.you input your current usage and you set how much you want to save and they email you when you can switch to a better tariff and save that amount per year.
We have just switched and our monthly amount has gone down and we are saving about £150 a year.

Of course I can understand that to some it's not an amount worth worrying about.


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31/12/2014 at 2:35am
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MSE is a great website, find out about pretty much anything on there.

Maybe i should pull my finger out and have a check again myself, as its been a while

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PersonRogerGoff
31/12/2014 at 8:50am
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I think it depends on one's energy use, if you have a large detached house that you want to keep at 22deg all yr then you might save £100pa or more by switching so worth it but for my £600odd pa bill I probably wouldn't save £10 & as the promise of savings are so vague it might cost me £10 more.

If I changed to monthly in advance Eon claim I would save £20pa but min monthly payment they want is £80pm which makes nearly £1000pa so presumably at end of yr I would be £300odd in credit? I'd rather pay quarterly in arrears & know where I am which is probably why I never have any problems with them.


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Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 30/12/2014

Why do folk go on a monthly payment plan, you either under pay or over pay, it really makes no sense to me.

You would not do it for the fuel you use in your car, so why bother for Gas and Electric.


For budgeting purposes as no unexpected bills for any utilities each month.
Just keep on top of what you are paying and submit your own regular readings and no problems with what you are paying then either.

Been with Southern Electric for years now and their UK call centre always been very helpful and website much improved and works well for me

might look into the M&S deal as have been approached by them a few times when in store and new it was with SSE, but free vouchers if on same deal I had now would be nice


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PersonDia Station
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If you are worried about the energy companies having your money when paying too much per month then OVO Energy pay 3% interest on any credit on your balance. They are also very competitive.

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Like Bob61, we're with Co-op Energy - Get quote here
After a bit of jiggling to get the estimates right, we're now on £60 pcm for duel fuel online. Customer service was friendly; we occasionally get a meter reader calling in. I've set up a reminder on computer to do a monthly check and send result online. At least you know that they are run on ethical lines.


Personbexamy
31/12/2014 at 1:04pm
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So we went on mse put all the details in ,the top 3 cheapest deals all had warning about them looked at sainbury again. Then looked at are bill again rang are provider up changed are tariff to a new deal can't be doing with all the aggregation of changing provider. After looking at what we pay a month to what sainbury were quoting their was only 4 quid in it. But on the main heading it said you can save 250 quid a year ?. How?


PersonFrancais
31/12/2014 at 1:20pm
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Like I said, smoke and mirrors!



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