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Anyone with southern electric/gas? recently i had a huge gas/lekkie bill so today i rang them to pay off some of my debt I'd run up :(
after abit of moaning on the dog and bone the kind lady said "have you tryed a quote on our "Go Direct 3 tariff" ehhh whats that i replied?
Its their cheapest energy tariff - she ran a quote for me based on what id used over my last billing period and guess what?
my gas used was £311.31 she dropped that to £233.32
my lekkie used was £349.62 she dropped that to £259.62
saving (if i was on that go direct tariff) £170!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This new tariff is only advertized on their web site so you have to go look for it.
just thought this might be worth a mention.

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bloody hell! use less gas and leke would be my suggestion.

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But if it's -12C then 'wear another jumper' isn't really helpful.

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I'm with scottish power. I decided this month to do some saving.

I used to pay 59.50 for gas and electric, then for 2 month I left the boiler on 24hrs and it jumped upto 97.50 and stayed there for 2 years.

This month a rang around and British gas could do me dual fuel for 61 a month. So after getting the best qoutes I rang Scottish power and they said I was on the wrong tarif and could get me down to 60 a month. So £37 saving.

I also rand sky to cancel and ended up with sky+HD for the same price as I pay now.

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Thanks Kwak, im with them and will have a look later, every penny counts in this house :(

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Swapped from Scottish Power to British Gas this month. Was paying something stupid for combined. Now paying £70 per month for both gas and leccy.

Also got a cheque for £111 from Scottish power rebate on my gas usage.

Plus I'll get £40 cashback for swapping to BG.

Go to moneysavingexpert.com and use their utilities checker for the best comparrison of what you're paying

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KJ use this

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/?tab=14

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I wish my bills was so low . I am all electric and I pay £155
a month for a 2 bed apartment.:confused:

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Check it with the linky, you're payin way too much

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im on economy 7 with f***in old storage heaters and the hot water never stays hot so im always putting the emergen on too.

I do have loadz of crap too big 50" plasma, 40" in the spare room,
Amps Speakers / xbox's my PC is constantly on downloading ect ..

so i think i am using it its just that this economy 7/storage heaters are crap.

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Time to go a bit greener then :rolleyes:

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we live in a 2 bed appartment with storage heaters and economy 7.....we pay £55 a month and that covers our usage for the full year.... we go into debit over winter but pull ourselves back even in the summer.

I think you are paying way to much

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moving out soon into another place with normal heating carny wait for normal constant hot water !!

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The hot water is cold by 9am though or loot warm so we are always putting it on continuous to get the water hot for baths/showers so thats not helping.

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I live in an extended 4 bed detatched house with economy 7. Thanks to this thread my monthly payments have been reduced from £120 for gas & elec to £100 cos ive just changed over to Go Direct 3, so thanks to Kwak and Maviczap, i owe you both a beer at AR10. I am a :p:albino: (happy bunny!)