Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • Rusty Raven M
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    1 year ago

    Sumo were also a bit unclear about the details of what you are signing up to and what the differences between their plans is. I was going to go with them, but they seemed a bit dodgy and another company became cheaper anyway when I did the compare again.

    I ended up with Nectr for electricity, GloBird for gas. Nectr did have a dodgy estimate of the total price on their website, but the actual rates were the best. I have found that the Energy Compare site is the best resource if you enter your meter number, as it uses the actual use patterns you have. Make sure you select the option to include time of use plans on the left hand side to see all the options, depending on when you use power you may save money.

    • Taleya
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      One thing to be aware with globird: they do a lot of estimating. They bill monthly, but rely on utility meter reads so every few months you get a wild bill in either direction

      • Rusty Raven M
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        AGL used to do the same thing - I think any of them that do monthly billing have to estimate and they seem to do a pretty bad job of it. That was nice with Lumo, they would only bill you when the meter was actually read.

    • wscholermann
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Nectr is coming up cheapest for me too. Although not necessarily by a big margin.