Amerada are no more...... (Amerada)

Member Name: mwl001

Product:	Amerada
Date:	06/10/03 (46 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheapest Supplier

Disadvantages: Expensive to phone, but how often do you ring them?

Amerada is now part of Powergen, and therefore also has Powergen's higher prices :-(

I have been a customer of Amerada for several years and have been happy with their service and especially the prices. Powergen will cost me approx 15-20% more.

Yes, it does cost a quid a minute to ring them, but then how often do you ring your utility company? I have used the e-mail query system and always had a prompt (or promptish) reply from them.

Their esimated billing service was amazingly accurate in my experience and my only slight complaint would be that they initially set the direct debits up a little on the low side (possibly to appear more attractive to a potential customer) which meant I underpaid for the first year or so. Still I would rather owe them money than them overcharge me.

As regards service, apart from billing, you get the same gas/electricity through the same meters and the same pipes/cables with the same meter readers (it doesn't matter who you are with the same people will read your meter). So why pay more?

I will be sad to see them (and their low prices) go.

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