British Gas - Combined

Me and my girlfriend are first time 'home leavers' we fled the nest last September and moved into a privately rented house, and the previous occupants used British Gas for both their electricity and gas - so we thought we may aswell leave it as it is. We had our first full quarterly bill through the door last week, and its worked out around about £12 a week each (£24). We've been a bit naive with the money though, and haven't really saved up / accounted for our gas and electricity properly (lesson learned I guess!) so we're hoping (especially with current climate) that they wont cut our gas or electricity off if we dont pay the full near £300 next week ...  Read the complete review

I moved to BG when the cost of power shot up I had been price capped for 3 years so it was a shock to find out the true cost of power after searching the web and inputing the actual readings for a year I found that BT offered the best deal. £18 pm for Electric £23 pm for gas, two months later this had risen to £23 for electric and £55 for gas around January this went up again to £23 electric £74 gas even though I had put in the actual readings into the web site at the beginning. I then deceided to change again and found a better provider and cancelled BG, I went onto the BG site to check my bill before I left (leaving 2 April) and could not access my account as it ...  Read the complete review

Last year and even now British Gas is the most expensive fuel company in the UK. This is due to bad luck. When British Gas bought gas for its customers it was at the highest whole sale price. I think the boffins at BG thought prices will go even higher. That didn't happened. As the wise ones will know, rise in business taxes are always paid by the customers. Same is true of fuel prices. British Gas has increased price of gas by more than 100% in 24 months. Generally people get duel fuel discounts which could amount to £20 a year, little money (I know) in comparison to the bills however it is still worth money. BG doesn't advertise this to the ...  Read the complete review

I am disgusted with the service I have received from British Gas. When the (very pleasant) lady came to my door, I invited her in and gave her a glass of water. She sat on my sofa, cooed over my little girl and told me I would save money on my gas, electric and phone bill. She told me my gas would go up in price by 1p per k/w of energy used - the gas man came round to my house today to change my meter to 16p p/kw instead of the 7p it originally was. This is NOT an increase of 1p (unless my maths skills are out of whack). She told me that to sign up to the deal with Talktalk/Onetel I would have to sign up for gas and electric with British Gas - Onetel have ...  Read the complete review

I am writing this opinion as a warning to others that might have been stopped in shopping centres, or asked at the door to change from the current supplier to British Gas.I would like to put over my viewpoint of what has happened to us. I hope it will help others. We were busy as usual shopping in our local centre at Templars Square,Cowley,Oxford.It was not long before we were approached by a sales gentleman wearing a nice clean suit. He seemed to be very positive of his company: that if we changed to them, we would get very good savings on our yearly gas, and electric bills. After reading quite throughly alot of forms, we agreed,my husband and self, that the ...  Read the complete review