Standing Charge

Fatboy123 · 26 Aug 2021 at 12:09

For the 4th or fifth time in a year our utilities supplier has put prices up because wholesale prices have gone up.
Can't quite understand why they also put up the daily standing charge. Are they giving there employees a 20% pay rise?

Fatboy123 · 26 Aug 2021 at 12:16

But my supplier has increased both!

Fatboy123 · 26 Aug 2021 at 16:07

dLockers said:
Bulb? Got the email today

Yup!

Fatboy123 · 26 Aug 2021 at 16:14

Th0nt said:
If they change the prices sometimes this can trigger a clause allowing you to switch supplier.

We moved from British Gas in September last year as they were an absolute nightmare we will NEVER go back to them.
To be honest can't be arsed to keep changing supplier but starting to feel after the number of price hikes this year that we're being treated like cash cows.

Fatboy123 · 26 Aug 2021 at 16:20

dLockers said:
There are no savings available right now through Uswitch

I'm not too fussed at the actual cost just the multiple price rises in such a short time and going back to my original point why does the Standing Charge get hiked?

As a side note I've always been rather sceptical when it comes to price comparison websites as don't they only show/advertise prices from companies that pay them a kickback? Wasn't GoCompare recently fined for this??

Fatboy123 · 30 Aug 2021 at 14:22

We switched in September last year and I think they've put prices up 4 times since.

Fatboy123 · 30 Aug 2021 at 15:58

norm said:
I took out an 18 month contract with Sky broadband, within 6 weeks they sent a letter saying prices were to go up by £1/month.

Commented to a friend this morning that hidden in the small print on Sky's TV advert it said something like "prices may vary during contract period" I wonder if you'd have had the right to cancel?