Advantages: Simple-to-use, reliable site, which could save you quite a bit of money! Disadvantages: You might need to pay your current supplier quite a bit of money too!
Has someone knocked at your door and suggested you could save a small fortune if only you'd allow their employer to supply your gas or electricity? Sometimes they appear in a fluorescent yellow jacket to "check that all's well with your fuel supply and ensure that you're getting your discounts". They tell you about the savings that you can make by signing up with them, but what they never do is show you that they're offering the best deal available. ... ...The simple answer is that you visit www.uSwitch.com and use their calculators to find the best deal. The site has no links with any of the suppliers that you see on the site – in fact it's owned by private investors and company employees, so it's unbiased. There are details of all suppliers too, and not just those who pay them commission, which, I'm sorry to say, is a failing of more traditional brokers. Its income comes from the commissions paid ...
SueMagee 30.05.2003
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Advantages: Very good for energy users thinking of changing Disadvantages: A bit more hit and miss for telecomms and TV
Ever since just about every public utility got deregulated, the average householder has been inundated with junk mail, not to mention “cold-calling” phone calls, usually when you are eating, or worse still, foot-in-the-door salespeople, all of whom are singing the praises of some service or other, but in my view, lacking any real hard data to back their claims.
Them: “Oh, yes sir, on a house this size, I’d expect to shave £60/year of your combined ... ...happens that I’ve got the last two year’s meter readings handy – perhaps you could be more specific!”
Exit salesperson, looking in earnest for someone WITHOUT two year’s readings.
Before I get started, I’ll confess that I did change from separate gas and electricity suppliers to NPower for both, but using my readings, not some rule of thumb. The whole deal looked like saving about £40/year at the rates in force at the time of changing. Then British ...
BNibbles 11.10.2002
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Advantages: Fairly simple to use. Disadvantages: May not include some tariffs needed for accurate comparison.
USwitch is one of the best known comparison and switching sites for home utilities, particularly gas and electricity.
In July 2007 I tested USwitch along with 7 other comparison sites to find whether EDF was still my cheapest supplier for dual fuel. We have a large house using 35000kWh gas and 3500kWh electricity per annum and are on EDF Dual fuel online tariff V4, Our annual bill for this is about £960 per annum.
Using USwitch was reasonably straightforward, ... ...put in the nearest thing I could find. USwitch came up with results very quickly, but gave my annual spend as around £1200. From this it deduced that I could save about £124 by switching to Utilita at a new annual cost of £1075.
If you have been following this you will have realised by now that Utilita, according to USwitch is actually about £115 MORE than my real EDF bills based on actual consumption.
Of the 8 other sites I tried, only 3 included ...
Segedunum 17.07.2007
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Advantages: Quick and easy to use Disadvantages: Provides inaccurate price comparisons
As an employee for a major utility company, I checked out this website and used it to compare against another supplier. I entered information into the comparison calculator and also worked out the comparison myself manually. I calculated a difference on annual billing between the two suppliers of £13.27. The uSwitch website claimed savings of £35! I sent an email to uSwitch with the calculations advising them of the discrepancy and asked how could ... ...was almost only a third of their claims? They did reply, saying it depended on usage!!! What? I had entered all this information in, of course it depends on usage. Pathetic!
I can only advise people that are looking to compare suppliers not to use this site, as its claimed savings are false. It was strange to notice that the site also carried adverts, and got paid for referred sales to certain suppliers. Not very independent then! Perhaps the claimed ...
thevicar 04.02.2004
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Advantages: quick & easy Disadvantages: Possibly being decieved????
I used uswitch to find the cheepest supplier, which i thought i had and was happy with the company i switched with.
Just to check once i'd switched i checked again and what do you know (a cheeper different supplier?????) and not evan a mention of the current supplier they recommended not even in the top ten, so what i did i changed deatils of my current supplier and made one up!!!! and the result even though only changing the name of the supplier ...
saucysez23 20.02.2007
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Advantages: detailed and uncomplicated Disadvantages: none that I can see
I really can't say enough about this site. Found the url by accident in a magazine when we were contemplating changing our providers.
It is clear and concise and for me, who loves to see statistics and facts and fugures..plenty of those too. I found the recommendations to be unbiased and the fact that I could back track and change details as i went along to ascertain many varied combinations was brilliant..but then i am a self confessed nerd who ...
nitiram 24.02.2003
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Advantages: No hassle, quick, guarentee to save money and chance of rebate Disadvantages: None as yet!!
Using uSwitch.com to change energy supplier.
I have recently used www.uswitch.co.uk to change energy provider. I was paying for both gas & electricity through the same provider. I received a letter throught the post one day informing myself that the rates for both were going to be increased. This immediately angered me and so I set about getting a better deal. I found uswitch with the help of www.greasypalm.co.uk & the t.v. adverts. The advantage ... ...cashback deal!
The first thing to do is to provide you post code. This will create a list of suppliers. The actual web site itself is littered with helpful pop ups to provide help if unsure. After spending approximately 15 minutes on the uswitch website it was all completed. The website itself offers a comparison of providers with no hassle of a salesman being pushy. Once completed, your information is passed directly to the new supplier who will ...
wcphipps 16.06.2007
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