Switching electric/gas providers (see first post for links)

FYI - I just spoke with Bord Gais on the number given in the letter, customer support guy is happy to give me 38% discount on the standard rate and sign me for a year contract. Changes were made to my account with in a couple of minutes over phone.

Worth a try if you are interested.

Thank you, I may have to do that. Still annoying, they are essentially blackmailing you into signing a years contract with them or pay 3 months at extortionate rates. Gangsters!

What company is that?

Sorry, just saw it there, bord gais, will give them a ring.

I have just switched from Bord Gais to Electric Ireland (EI) 30% discount plan. Based on my usage figures EI will be €103 cheaper for the year, based on current prices, in comparison to the Bord Gais 39% discount plan.

Has anybody ever cancelled with a provider and opened a new account in their partners name with same provider at their new customer rate? Or do they have checks in place for that?

With BG which expires shortly and would be very interested in the 40/40 offer.

Surely the GPRN and MPRN will be the same?

Tesco do 3 months free Disney+ too and Milano vouchers but need to rack up the points for both of these. They are the ones off top of my head that looked useful.

We got Disney+ in last billing period and think needed 900 points for this!!

I suppose if she tells them she's a new tenant in the house they wouldn't know any different. They're unlikely to go checking the property register

I have cheap disney+ so dont need it and Milano value is meh for prices of the pizzas :P !

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Of course it is, companies offer the best discounts to new customers. And if one puts up prices, the rest eventually follow. If you don't switch after contract has ended, provider-dependent, you're now on their standard expensive rate. It pays to switch every time.

Anyone with SSE any comment on what their Rewards system like? One thing that caught my eye was do they give you monthly credit of €5 towards a movie every month.

Had door salesman here other day and made a good pitch, on bonkers.ie I think their dual fual is second to FloGas for our situation.

Currently with Bord Gais and really like their Rewards as have won a few comps with it and also NOW vouchers are very handy. They are not dealing with Tesco anymore which is a little annoying but still..

When my contract was up a few months ago with Energia I popped over to bonkers.ie, put in my usage etc. and they were still the best option for me. So I just "switched/renewed" with Energia thru' the Bonkers website.

Cant comment on SSE but just to say be careful with door to door salesmen, some of them will tell you anything to get your signature and sign up. Happened me a few years ago, the unit rate he quoted at the door was not was showed up on my bill a couple of months later. Got it sorted in the end but I had taken a specific note of the day and night unit rates he quoted and he basically bullshitted me to get the sale. Only for I took a note I would never have known for certain. Never again would I sign up using one, its not worth the potential chicanery when you can just go direct yourself very easily.

I'd wager you that you would lose.

You signed up to terms and conditions. That you probably did not read them is not an arguable defence. The terms and conditions state what happens if they can no longer supply you.

btw- Iberdrola were implementing another price increase from June 1st (here are the electricity rates https://www.iberdrola.ie/standard-prices ) and had a choice of implement another whopper price increase from this month or call it quits. That could have been to over 60c! If you were an electricity customer the electric Ireland standard non discounted rate you were moved to was 30% LOWER than the standard Iberdrola rate on June 1st.

Their error was that they did not buy forward and therefore bought at spot rates which are off the scale at present. To break even, they would have had to charge over 55c per unit of day time electricity. (Some UK companies are charging 50p+)

It was the same with gas and spot gas prices are 4 times what they were last year

I think they did you a favour without you realising it.