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

Send me the old meter, you can have my smart meter. I couldn't find that 5c offer on their site. It's a terrible site to navigate. What fit are they paying?

I got an email from airtricity in July saying my rate was up soon. I switched on 15th August 2 days before my airtricity contract was officially up. I didn't realise until I looked now at this last bill.

They charged me the 50 euro early exit fee for 2 days, am I at anything contacting them to try get it back.

I could just refuse the last direct debit could I?

I would be pissed off with that, you can still cancel within your 14 day cooling off period but not sure if that would cancel out the fee since you never left. I would be sending an email now and ringing when open to complain and get the fee waived or threaten to go elsewhere.

Sorry, I thought you meant you just switched to the same companies new deal 2 days early and they charged you.

It's actually from esbn, I got one every time I changed supplier over the years.

You could have been saving anything from 20-30% on your energy bills over the past few years. You've been subsidizing my energy costs, thank you.

For battery size head on over to the renewable energies forum. Plenty of great help there.

just pay the 50 euro in case you need to switch back to the company again, is it worth the hassle when you broke the contract early

It will all be done in the background. You switch to new company, create a new DD and you're done!

I switched recently. Was in credit with Bord Gais, got the credit back to bank account. Never had to call them for it.

Call them, I'd be surprised if they didn't take that back off your bill. It's happened to me twice, with Energia and Airtricity. Both times they took it off the bill.

Missed bill with DD always appears on your credit history was my understanding. I would say, i actually know very little about credit history so might very well be wrong on that.

He still needs to pay the €50 exit fee.

A question for those who managed to sign up for the Flogas community gas offer:

I got in before it disappeared, signed up about 2 weeks ago, and got my first bill during the week. The bill covers 12 days standing charge, no gas was used as I'd received my regular gas bill (also Flogas, as it happens) the week before and used the same reading.

The Tariff Category is "Fixed Gas 12 A23 RN".

Can anyone confirm if this the community tariff, or their regular fixed tariff? The standing charge is the same on both, so I can't tell. I'm not likely to get a bill with usage till October, and don't want to let it run that late if I'm on the incorrect rate.

Thanks all.

A very similar thing happened to me. About a week after leaving Energia and having signed up to the Flogas community plan Energia rang and offered 20% off (15% off was the best offer the previous week) stating that I would be paying 38 cents per unit with Flogas and with their (Energia) increased reduction and lower standing charge I'd be paying less.

While I had received confirmation from Flogas that I had been accepted into their plan I was a little worried about the statement by Energia that I would be paying 38 cents a unit so I rang Flogas and the rep there confirmed that I would be paying 29.99 cents a unit. She also confirmed that they do not pass any of that data on to Energia or any other provider and that Energia rep was merely quoting the standard rate of the Flogas unit rate which is freely available on their website. It was all a gimmick by Energia in an attempt to keep me as a customer.

So if you have had confirmation from Flogas then you don't have to do anything else.