Good old British Gas

Col_Decker

A nice 9% increase on our bills, just in time for winter. Cnuts! At least Turpin wore a mask.

bertie

Col_Decker said:

 At least Turpin wore a mask.

and made a crackin hot-pot

Col_Decker

Dick you knob

Col_Decker

gah, you changed your post rendering mine senseless.

 

I picked a hell of day to quit smokin'

Phil_aka_Pip

SSE first, BG next, closely followed by the rest of the cartel.

You can't win :x

viz

Congrats on not smoking Colin Dexter!!! Keep it up.

bertie

Col_Decker said:

 rendering mine senseless.

 narrow it down a bit 

Cirrus

But at least we have the illusion of choice. Or they can offer us paltry savings and lock us into contracts.

It's all about getting the most money out of our pockets.

Phil_aka_Pip

Just a thought: if you buy a product like gas they put the price up claiming it costs them more to supply it. You can't tell your employer to pay you more 'cos your costs have gone up - he'd say he can't afford it. If you told him to put his prices up he'd say his customers wouldn't pay higher prices. It seems though that "utility" companies, and council tax departments, food suppliers etc are all allowed to assume our pockets are infinitely deep. The money has to be going somewhere, perhaps everywhere BUT the pockets of people earning less than £50k (arbitrary figure)

Col_Decker

And didn't they announce a profit rise last year to £350m or something? I feel a pitch fork moment coming on 

Col_Decker

bertie said:

Col_Decker said:

 rendering mine senseless.

 narrow it down a bit 

shobet

Opened up the BBC news app this morning and saw these two headlines next to each other.

As Paul Calf would say, 'bag o' shite'.

Cirrus

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Just a thought: if you buy a product like gas they put the price up claiming it costs them more to supply it. You can't tell your employer to pay you more 'cos your costs have gone up - he'd say he can't afford it. If you told him to put his prices up he'd say his customers wouldn't pay higher prices. It seems though that "utility" companies, and council tax departments, food suppliers etc are all allowed to assume our pockets are infinitely deep. The money has to be going somewhere, perhaps everywhere BUT the pockets of people earning less than £50k (arbitrary figure)

Yep, absolutely. The problem is these things are "essentials" so it's not like you can tell them to stuff it if the price rises and you don't like it. They can go after you in court (utilities, councils etc) or you could always starve to death (food).

Bellycaster

Looks like Jumpers and Candles in the future. Better buy the Candles now before they become more expensive than Caviar.

Profit is profit but this seems to be becoming more like Extortion and I thought extortion was Illegal.

 

:x

Roaster

I work for them and I'm feckin disgusted....

viz

Is it related to milliband's pledge?

mellowsun

Why not switch? Ecotricity are actually cutting their electricity prices, and freezing their gas prices. They're able to cut their electricity prices as they are fully independent from the 'Big 6' - they manage their own wind and solar farms.

You can argue 'yeah but wind and solar get a big subsidy' but every utility or infrastructure gets a government subsidy in one way or another. Also nuclear gets a bigger subsidy than wind or solar, but you don't see cheaper electricity as a result.

Roaster

@Viz at my level I doubt we would ever find out, but we have these increases every year, it's the % that's staggering! way above the rate of inflation . The city love it though, watch the shares go up!

fretmeister

An oldie but still accurate...

http://newsthump.com/2011/05/09/prices-are-yet-to-reflect-contempt-we-have-for-you-warns-british-gas/

jellyroll

Oh. When they said GAS has gone up by 10%, I thought they meant........

Phil_aka_Pip

jellyroll said:

Oh. When they said GAS has gone up by 10%, I thought they meant........

chance would be a fine thing!