It took 8 months to finally resolve the issue and after that I swore two things:
1. They’d never catch me out again, and
2. I’d help as many of my friends avoid the mark-ups, deceits and outright scams that are part of the UK energy market.
And you know the UK energy market is a can of worms mixed in with a tin of spaghetti all mixed in with a large, unravelled ball of wool.
It’s a huge mess and the job of comparing one supplier’s gas and electricity with another’s is just about impossible.
The obvious remedies simply aren’t trustworthy
You can go to their sites because – obviously – that’s the best way to get their best deal, right? Wrong.
As Which? recently reported, for many of the big name energy suppliers the cheapest deal on their website isn’t the cheapest deal they have. Their best deals are hidden and used for other marketing purposes.
So we think, perhaps price comparison sites might be the best place to go – the best deals will be there, right? Not necessarily.
Comparison sites are so unreliable that The Citizens Advice Bureau’s own in-depth investigation into comparison site behaviour leads them to warn consumers to ‘use a number of different price comparison sites before committing to a product or service’.
In other words, we have to double-check the checkers because the checkers themselves need checking!
This is crazy. We’re not talking about a complex product that comes in a range of different grades or flavours or mixtures. There is only one type of gas and there is only one type of electricity.
It would be like going to Tesco to buy bananas and finding there’s 17 different prices for the same banana. We’d laugh at that because a banana is a banana – so just give me a single price, right?
Well, gas is gas. All gas is all the same.
So why is a dozen or more different prices, hidden tariffs, untrustworthy comparison sites, huge pricing disparities, a government regulator and a nation-wide distrust of scandalous malpractice a normal part of the energy market?
Why not price it at so many pence per unit and be done with it?
Keeping you confused on purpose?
We think it takes genuine effort to make it this complex. After all, it’s not easy to create so many varied strands to the pricing of a single, simple commodity like gas or electricity.
Which makes us wonder if pricing complexity and comparison confusion is deliberate.
If customers are too baffled to really know if they’re getting a good deal – and they need spreadsheets and a maths degree to do their own comparisons – the industry is able to keep prices high across the board.
And we already know that the big energy companies have hundreds of thousands of customers on their books that are getting horrible pricing deals. This scandal is great for their profits, very bad for their victims customers.
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Does it have to be this way? Of course it doesn’t!
Pricing gas and electricity can be as easy as pricing bananas.
Fortunately, with a handful of suppliers, it now is. And I’m on a mission to make sure you at least know about them.
Get in touch, tell us what you’re using and we’ll send some emails. What we come back with is the best, genuine price you can get.
It’ll be straight from the supplier and we don’t take a cut or a commission.
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Are we mad?
Whaaaat?? I hear you ask… Why do you do all this for no pay?
First, it’s not much of an effort. Takes my chap about 10 minutes to help you out so… so actually glad to do it for you anyway.
Second, this is personal. I hate rip offs at the best of times, they got me good and proper some years back and so this is my revenge on an industry that’s infamous for its malpractice.
Of course, it never hurts my own telecoms business that I have saved people – literally – thousands of pounds year in, year out on their energy bills… but that’s a happy side-effect.
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Entirely up to you
You take the deal or you don’t. We’re not selling it, just letting you know it’s there. We have a relationship with most of the better suppliers – they obviously love that we send business their way and don’t ask for anything in return – so they’ll help you out nice and quickly.
But it’s your benefit, your choice. We certainly won’t be pushing it.
Call my people on 08003101010 if you want to see what’s on offer.
Want to see the real energy deals hidden by Price Comparison and Energy Brokers?
Every quote you’ve been offered is a scam, the websites and brokers added 3%-10% to your bill for literally a 20-minute job. We provide real-time quotes from the UK’s best suppliers and obtain commission-free deals for our customers.
How one of our customers slashed their gas bills by £27,580.70
Forth Windows & Doors is based in Glenrothes, Scotland and employs 30 staff. The company has been a Numbergroup customer since 2009.
| OLD SUPPLIER & TARIFF British Gas Standing Charge: 151.311p per day Per Unit charge: 5.150p |
NEW SUPPLIER & TARIFF CNG Scottish Hydro Standing Charge: 0 Per Unit Charge: 2.309p |
Based on their Average usage, the Annual cost dropped from £24,549.48 to £10,759.13. That’s an incredible saving of £27,580.70 over their 2 year contract.
Sample Gas Quotes
Based on annual usage of 24,000 Kwh Sep 21
| Tariff | Term | Payment | Standing Charge (per day) | Prices (p/kwh) | Annual Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smartest Energy SmartFIX | 36 Months | Direct Debit | 25p | 4.02 | £1056.05 |
| Engie Martrix Gas | 48 Months | Direct Debit | 40.44p | 3.82 | £1064.41 |
| AvantiGas FSC | 36 Months | Direct Debit | 91p | 3.146 | £1087.19 |
| Opus Energy | 36 Months | Direct Debit | 37p | 4.090 | £1116.65 |
Sample Electricity Quotes
Based on annual usage of 5000 Kwh Sep 21
| Tariff | Term | Payment | Daily Standing Charge | Prices (p/kwh) | Annual Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corona Energy AMR | 48 Months | Direct Debit | 38.301p | 18.62 | £1070.80 |
| Smart Energy SmartFix | 36 Months | Direct Debit | 35.67p | 18.85 | £1072.70 |
| British Gas BG Lite | 36 Months | Direct Debit | 37.69p | 19.11 | £1093.07 |
| EDF online fixed Business | 24 Months | Direct Debit | 25p | 21 | £1141.25 |
| British Gas Acquisition v93 | 36 Months | Direct Debit | 52.85p | 19.14 | £1149.90 |