Dead right. When you look at the feedback/comments on any of these companies, you get the impression we are all being taken for a ride...over time we will have worked our way through all of the companies, back to where we started. Consumers are all being played for mugs - consumers are disorganised and being picked off one-by-one. I've signed up to a website called communitypurchasing.com - they're trying to save people money by grouping consumers together.

The chap said it would be off the first bill. My past experience with British Gas is that they can't produce a bill in under a year. I'd only go back if they gave me the gas and electrcity for free.lol!

Could you go back for a few months, while you use up the £50, and then switch to someone else, or do you have to join for a certain length of time before you get the £50?

I've just had British Gas trying to get me to go back as a customer. They even offered £50 off the first bill. I told them I would only go back if it was free! I do find it incredible, they were first to jack prices up and now offer bribes to get people back. Why don't they reduce tariffs for the customers they have before trying to bribe people back. .