Nov 29 2008
How I’ve Just Saved £420.00
SO you want to know how I’ve just saved £420?
Easy! Just take on a giant fuel company at full tilt and show ‘em who’s the boss!
O.K., I’ve probably made Virgin Media/ NTL a lot wealthier in the process but it was certainly worth two long, frustrating and hot-tempered phone calls to get it sorted.
The team who present BBC Radio 4’s “You and Yours” would probably loved to have been flies on the wall when I took on two clerks at the energy giant, E.ON and got a combined £35.00 per month (or £420.00 over the next year) knocked off our electricity and gas direct debit bills.
It happened after we received two badly worded statements (one for each fuel) detailing swingeing hikes respectively of £13.00 and £22.00 per month.
The consumer watchdogs are not alone in believing that the grossly incompetent, ridiculously overpaid people who run our giant fuel companies are taking cruel advantage of ordinary consumers in this time of increasing recession.
Instead of bearing the welcome tumble in oil prices they’re continuing to raise the cost of heating and lighting homes and washing, then drying laundry - matters as basic - and vital - as eating.
They claim that part of their problem is insufficient ’storage’ facilities compared to their European counterparts. Tosh! They just want to please their shareholders and ensure that senior personnel get thwacking annual bonuses.
It’s a pity that not everyone feels able to articulate their grievances but I’m nothing if not brazen and in recent years can justifiably claim to have become a professional complainer.
If you want to find out how … coninue to watch this space!
msniw
