Uranyl Yellow Posted 25 August 2017 Posted 25 August 2017 Once again time to do the bloody merry-go-round of switching energy supplier. Christ, you'd think there'd be some mileage in a business model of actually trying to hold on to the customers you already have rather than ripping them off, but hey what do I know. Anyway, it seems the only significant savings to be had are by switching to one of the newer suppliers, and OneSelect offered the best deal by far. Customer reviews seemed generally positive for them as well, which is slightly strange for a new supplier (most of the other newer companies I looked at had reviews ranging from indifferent to horrendous), but I'm not sure it's because they are so new that they have so few customers to generate bad ratings. Anybody here use them, or have even heard of them?
Izzy Posted 25 August 2017 Posted 25 August 2017 Never heard of them, but I'd also be keen to know. I've been thinking about switching for ages but never got round to it. I'm currently with Eon but paying £200 a month and sure I'm getting screwed
Uranyl Yellow Posted 25 August 2017 Author Posted 25 August 2017 2 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said: Never heard of them, but I'd also be keen to know. I've been thinking about switching for ages but never got round to it. I'm currently with Eon but paying £200 a month and sure I'm getting screwed Bloody hell, are you running a particle accelerator. I think the quote for me from OneSelect was £65 a month, and I'm paying around £100 a month at the moment
m4DD0gg Posted 25 August 2017 Posted 25 August 2017 3 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said: Never heard of them, but I'd also be keen to know. I've been thinking about switching for ages but never got round to it. I'm currently with Eon but paying £200 a month and sure I'm getting screwed £200 per month?!!?! I am assuming you have kids? Get some solar panels installed. The ones where there is no battery so energy is consumed when the sun is out and the rest sold back to the grid. Should see your bill dip by 30-50%.
martyn Posted 25 August 2017 Posted 25 August 2017 If you're using a comparison service (like uswitch), I highly recommend signing up to Top Cashback first as they'll give you around £20-40 for clicking through from there. Cashback sites always worthwhile when it comes to switching utilities, insurance, TV/Internet etc.
Uranyl Yellow Posted 25 August 2017 Author Posted 25 August 2017 4 minutes ago, martyn said: If you're using a comparison service (like uswitch), I highly recommend signing up to Top Cashback first as they'll give you around £20-40 for clicking through from there. Cashback sites always worthwhile when it comes to switching utilities, insurance, TV/Internet etc. Initially looked at uSwitch, but OneSelect was one of their 'hidden' results because you can't sign up to OneSelect via uSwitch.
Izzy Posted 25 August 2017 Posted 25 August 2017 43 minutes ago, Uranyl Yellow said: Bloody hell, are you running a particle accelerator. I think the quote for me from OneSelect was £65 a month, and I'm paying around £100 a month at the moment 43 minutes ago, m4DD0gg said: £200 per month?!!?! I am assuming you have kids? Get some solar panels installed. The ones where there is no battery so energy is consumed when the sun is out and the rest sold back to the grid. Should see your bill dip by 30-50%. Yeah, 2 kids and the washing machine always seems to be on! We don't have gas in the village so everything is electric. We've also got electric radiators not central heating and I know they're expensive to run. Work from home most days too so that also costs I suppose. Solar panels seem a good idea but they look ugly as fook don't they?
m4DD0gg Posted 25 August 2017 Posted 25 August 2017 1 minute ago, Izzy Muzzett said: Yeah, 2 kids and the washing machine always seems to be on! We don't have gas in the village so everything is electric. We've also got electric radiators not central heating and I know they're expensive to run. Work from home most days too so that also costs I suppose. Solar panels seem a good idea but they look ugly as fook don't they? Nah not really, depends on your roof size. We have them and our leci bill is a fiver a month and they dont look out of place and to be honest i dont even notice them any more than i would a satellite dish. A lot of companies do a lease of your roof for 25 years and maintain the panels for you, the benefit for you is there is no install fee and they maintain them for free, you get the generated electricity which must be used when collected as the excess is sold back to the grid so the solar panel company make their money. We just set all our appliances on a delay and as i work from home 75% of the time all my electric usage is essentially free. After 25 years the panels belong to the owner of the house who then earns money from the sold excess but also has to maintain them. Pretty good to be fair.
Webbo Posted 25 August 2017 Posted 25 August 2017 We're with Iresa who I'd never heard of until we signed with them. Tbh they're crap they keep asking for meter reading on line but when you go on their site it doesn't work. I'll being giving them the push soon.
Uranyl Yellow Posted 25 August 2017 Author Posted 25 August 2017 2 minutes ago, Webbo said: We're with Iresa who I'd never heard of until we signed with them. Tbh they're crap they keep asking for meter reading on line but when you go on their site it doesn't work. I'll being giving them the push soon. I had a look at Iresa. The reviews on Trustpilot were generally pretty bad so it put me off them somewhat.
Guest Posted 25 August 2017 Posted 25 August 2017 I had a look at switching away from british gas recently and a tiny little eco firm cane up cheapest on the comparison sites. I'd have gone for it but the tariff and my current tariff had completely different points where the price increased so you can't exactly compare. They need to make them have tariffs that are directly comparable.
Uranyl Yellow Posted 25 August 2017 Author Posted 25 August 2017 19 minutes ago, Worthington said: We were with EON, just for 'leccy', as there's no such thing as mains gas hereabouts. In 12 months they' increased our 'monthly' from £65 to £93. I then had a 'satisfaction survey' phone call from them, during which their 'rep' let slip that prices were due to rise again...!!! Decided that there must be cheaper out there, and we're now dealing with Octopus. Payment's set at £58 at the moment and, 3 months in, we've been a little in credit each month....Obviously we'll use a little more in winter but, overall, I'm happy ! Interesting to hear. Didn't notice that uSwitch mentioned Octopus (even in their hidden results), and I can't say I've heard of them, but I'll certainly look into them. Cheers.
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