Talking of electricity - beware the meter reader man. Just had a visit and not only has he increased the prices, but apparently since the prices increased in September and they've not had a chance to reset everyones meter in a timely fashion so guess what - they have also increased the standing charge from £1.40 per week to £4.20 per week!!!!!!!!!! In an attempt to recoup the money from the increased prices. I've just phoned them and apparently it's to pay off any "debt" on my account. I suspected as much and shall make sure somebody comes and resets it back in a timely fashion and not 12 months down the line. To be fair they do refund you eventually (after they've made some tidy interest on everyone elses money no doubt), they'll send me a cheque.
It has made me re-think my energy supplier, uSwitch still has them out as one of the cheapest though, so I've got them to phone me back in January to send an engineer out to change my meter back to a normal one. It'll be slightly cheaper for me to manage my account online and pay by direct debit rather than have a pre-payment meter (which funnily enough I had put in to help me budget when I first bought the house!).
