shame we need energy companies
Sorry this is going to be a long rant.
I was hoping I had found a decent energy supplier ( i now believe they are rarer than rocking horse s--t). Green Network Energy you are no better than all the others out there. You wanted to increase my monthly payments by nearly another £20 a month even though I was in credit with you. I phoned to ask that the monthly payments remain the same which to be fair you did. Hence the one star. I then asked for an up to date statement on my account, on Monday 25th May I was promised an email on Wednesday 27th May with the details, guess what it didn't arrive. I phone again on Thursday 28th May and after speaking with Joshua I was put on hold and subsequently cut off. Phoned back again got Samira this time and asked to speak to a supervisor,
got put through to Samantha a Manager, she promised me a phone call back that same day with information about my account situation, and if I didn't get a call I was to phone back on Friday and ask to speak to her personally. Guess what I didn't get a phone call on Thursday.
Friday, phoned again spoke to Mana and I asked to be put through to Samantha. Sorry can't find out where she is , don't know if she is in work yet, I am not actually working in the office so can't find her, excuses, excuses.
I am sure there is a training scheme they send people on from Energy suppliers, how to avoid answering customers questions, if it were a specialist subject on mastermind they would win hands down.
Anyway back to Friday, at 15:09 I got an email from Green Network Energy, somebody must have woken them up. Great, they tell me my current account balance is £32:32p in credit, There I told you so.
Me happy bunny now. Sunday Me not so happy bunny now. I get an email 33hours after they tell me I am £32:32p in credit, stating I am £18:64p in credit . On my rough calculation with their information, my energy is costing me £13 a day, over £4500 per year. With the weather as lovely as it's been in those 33 hours I am going to be bankrupt by the time winter comes.
So I ask the question why are energy suppliers so useless at carrying out the simplest of tasks, IE giving their customers the information they request and making sure it is accurate, also doing what they say they will do and get in touch with you when they promise they will.
I have unfortunately had to take four different companies to the Ombudsman.
I have won all my cases and received meagre compensation and an apology from every one of them. Unfortunately the Ombudsman cannot compensate you with the time you have spent dealing with these incompetent companies.
I have also written to the minister supposedly in charge of these companies, but he didn't even have the courtesy to reply. That's the trouble, if he can't be arsed why should the companies.
You get the shouty gob of Martin Lewis telling you it's a no brainer, you should get a dual fuel deal, save hundreds of pounds, you might save a hundred pounds changing from single fuel suppliers the first year, you do not have such a saving in subsequent years, that's no matter how loud you shout Martin. In my case I have wasted more time and energy and cost than on the savings.
Anyway Green Network Energy that's another two contracts you have lost through incompetence, as when mine and my partners contracts are up we will once again be looking for a decent energy supplier, I am not holding my breath though.
1 June 2020
Unprompted review