Hello all,

Just a quick note for anyone considering this - the offer was extended to today but finishes tonight (Friday 19th February), so if you do want it, you'll need to be quick.

Oof, I hope that doesn't sound like a sales pitch. It's more a heads-up.

Felicity

Great Advice,

Just one thing to be wary of, some suppliers (I've heard of two possibly 3 that are adopting this practise) are now begining to vet new and returning customer's, similar in some cases to credit scoring. So if you switch away and return they will, as Jalexa states treat you as a new customer and maynot be willing to offer you the terms (payment method, tarriff) etc that you are looking for. (While supplier's cannot refuse to supply you, they can refuse to offer you different tarriffs and payment methods).

Twee:

Is this offer available to existing SP customers ?

Graeme has answered that and that it was answered in the article.

There are a couple of issue to discuss. In general same supplier switches are not usually available via comparison websites. Considering the financing model that's not really surprising. An exception is British Gas which does normally allow same supplier switches via comparison websites.

A broader question perhaps is whether Scottish Power Online Energy 9 (without the £60 offer) is available to you as an existing customer. Again the Scottish Power website would have you believe not. I can say however that I was a Scottish Power online saver customer when they introduced Online Energy 5 which was also "not available" to existing customers. At the time I was free to switch away without penalty and "insisted" on being moved to Online Energy 5. After the exchange of a few emails the "landings team" switched me.

I suggest you take a hard nosed customer centric approach to this sort of "restrictive" practice. If you switch to a different supplier's tariff without a tie-in you would be free to switch again 28 days after transfer, including to the full choice of the then Scottish Power Saver tariffs.

This is pure speculation but I think this particular offer is a competitive but temporary offer while current market movements are considered. Given that the market is moving downwards (at the moment) a "hard-ball" approach is fairly low risk.

Sadly not, Twee. Check out the bit under the heading in Felicity's article: 'Is it right for me?'

Is this offer available to existing SP customers ?

A new moneysupermarket.com exclusive that gives you £60 cashback means there's a new cheapest energy tariff available - but it's only available for two days..

Sign up to Scottish Power's Online Energy Saver 9 today or tomorrow with moneysupermarket.com and you'll receive £60 cashback - making the average energy bill £862.24 - cheaper than the current market leader British Gas Websaver 6.

Felicity outlines the deal in her latest article 'New cheapest energy tariff only with moneysupermarket.com'