Npower touting for business.

[lostkat]

When I was at Uni, some guy came round to our house saying they were giving away £100 to all students in rented accommodation. I asked him if it was signing up to change our gas/electric supplier as we weren't allowed to change providers and he said no. I checked about 5 times because we'd done it by mistake before. Anyway, naive ol' me signed up and lone behold, we got a letter through saying "thanks for joining so-and-so". I rang them and had a right bloody go, so they cancelled it all. I hope the gob****e who lied to us got a good slap on the wrists too, but doubt it.

We also had a British Gas bloke come round a few weeks ago asking if we wanted to change. I said that we were on a fixed direct debit with npower and that one of our accounts had about £100 shortfall and we couldn't afford to top it up to move. His response was "well can you pay it off within the next few weeks?". What an idiot!

I'm absolutely sure we're not on the best deal with npower, but until we can afford to pay off the shortfall, we can't move providers. I've never had a problem with them, but I've never asked anything of them either.

[Mark]

I just had yet another call, from one of these guys touting for my business. The conversation went like this:

Him: Hi, I'm from Scottish Power. We're concerned that some customers in this area are paying too much, and you're on the list.
Me: (Checks ID, knowing what he really wants) Slight problem there - I'm already with Scottish Power.
Him: (looks surprised) OK, which tariff are you on?
Me: Fixed to 2011
Him: (looks bemused) OK, that's the cheapest tariff in the country.

Pwned!!! . I'm not sure about that claim, but it's certainly considerably cheaper than anything he was going to offer me, given that they've already raised prices for new contracts.