Due to a combination of factors regarding scammy scummy business practices I remembered about this incident.<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago I get a knock at the door and it is someone from an energy company touting for business by trying to convince us to switch suppliers.<\/p>\n
I forget the exact figures but he asked me what my energy bill was. I said \u00a390\/quarter for electricity and \u00a310\/week for gas during last quarter (winter). He pulls up his tablet PC and tells me I currently spend \u00a3360\/year on electricity and \u00a3520\/year on gas. This adds up to \u00a3880\/year on energy costs. If I switched to his company then with their \u00a350 duel customer saving it would only cost \u00a3850 per year.<\/p>\n
I looked at him.<\/p>\n
He looked back.<\/p>\n
Me: Energy man – glazed look.<\/p>\n Me: Energy man – How many people fall for this. Not only would this not be a Due to a combination of factors regarding scammy scummy business practices I remembered about this incident. A few weeks ago I get a knock at the door and it is someone from an energy company touting for business by trying to convince us to switch suppliers. I forget the exact figures but he asked me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51],"tags":[514,281],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-rant","tag-energy-company","tag-scam"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Those were the figures for the last quarter – winter, where we clearly spend more on heating<\/q><\/p>\n
You multiplied my Winter quarter fuel costs by 4 to get my yearly bill.<\/q><\/p>\n
Yeah there are 4 quarters in the year<\/q><\/p>\n
saving<\/q> without switching both energy supplies, it is only a
saving<\/q> if the figures used were correctly used for a comparison, which they clearly were not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"