Cancel your direct debit, then wait for them to contact you and agree to pay what you owe and nothing else.
What if he had DD discount. Could loose all that?
Soldato
Checked my package today so it looks like I am on fixed till June next year but I bet they will find a loop hole to up it.
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I understand what you've explained. I'm narked because of my individual situation of being £350 in credit due to Avro not lowering my monthly DD to the amount I requested several times over the past 6 or so months.
Soldato
Had an email from Bulb saying I’ve used £37 worth of gas and electric this month and should consider changing my DD to £96 a month
maybe they know how much prices are going up I guess..Yeah that amount isn't really on. I'm absolutely fine about having one month credit on the account. But at £350 you're starting to look at 4/5 months that you could use energy without paying a penny.
Associate
Everyone overpays during the summer months, it evens out during the winter. I’d guess the average person is probably £200 in credit at this moment in time if they’ve been with their supplier since the start of the year
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I have sent in the past an under meter reading and for the past 18 months its been estimated.
I was approx £300 below actual usage, and I sent another £200 over on top of that, so £500 above estimate, £200 above actual usage.
I now sent them the actual reading with a photo. So I can at least get that £300 before the rise.
I am just under £700 in credit, seems is no limit, they been treating me as a bank.
Soldato
Just got an email from Octopus for my parents account that I manage. Their 12month Fixed tariff ends in November. Their suggested alternatives seem to be bloody 24month ones now at obviously a much higher monthly cost than the £100 they're paying.
Soldato
I've just got an email from the now defunct Igloo to submit a meter reading. I'm not staying at my place right now & Im not about to drive 85 miles to do that. They've overestimated the reading anyway (No surprise there) but at least things are now moving forward on that front.
Brilliant thanks both, I'll speak with EDF in the new year and see where they're at with it.
Soldato
Unless I'm doing something wrong, went onto a few comparison sites, and they say being on EDF standard variable is the cheapest lol?
Due to the current wholesale price increases EDF has removed all products from comparison sites. And because of the price increase most standard variable tariffs will be cheaper than any possible deal you will get at the moment.
Soldato
they did this to me for a third time even though I am £400 in credit and have arranged to move away to octopus.
the first time I told them where to go as I was already building up credit in winter as I set my dd to cover my needs perfectly. Then they changed it again and said they couldn’t lower it as I was looking like I would go into a negative credit. So I got annoyed then.
Then 2 days after I said I’m moving they raised it again, crazy..
I get keeping customers accounts in a little bit of credit but £400 is 25% of my annual bill just as I’m about to leave..
British Gas are taking over my energy. They have a deal on at the moment for Homecare 4 where if you take it out for £192 you get 50 days of free energy usage. I'm paying around £4.30 a day at an estimate so it's paid for itself there plus I get a boiler service. Time to read the T&Cs.
Hawaiian short party at ChrisD's for those 50 days. Bring your electric cars and BitCoin mining rigs!
Ha, I was just thinking I might start mining on my 3080 again for those day.Hawaiian short party at ChrisD's for those 50 days. Bring your electric cars and BitCoin mining rigs!
Soldato
Soldato
Could bag yourself ~£250. Though in 50 days that might be £50 or £500
