New PERMANENTLY cheap energy deal - Special Martin's Money Tips E-mail

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Martin Lewis

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Cutting your costs, fighting your corner Special email 4 Feb 2013
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Fight the power (firms). NEW Cheap Energy Club
We've built a new way to ensure you PERMANENTLY have the cheapest energy deal

The energy market is broken. Competition hasn't worked. For years I've nagged you to take on energy firms, to ditch & switch at the right time to save £100s a year. Your reply's been: "It's confusing & too much hassle, can't you just sort it for me?" Our new Cheap Energy Club's the nearest we can get to saying yes. And of course, it's free.

The idea is to take on the short-term, rip-off nature of the energy markets. Normally, switch, and you risk the provider hiking prices; or giving you a cheap deal for 18 months then ramping costs. Not any more...

What the Cheap Energy Club does

  • Step 1. It checks you're on the cheapest deal. Register for free for the Club, and it'll check you're on the cheapest deal. If you are, great - move to step 2. If not, it'll do a full market comparison to find the cheapest, and handle the switch for you. Plus to encourage you, there's up to £30 cashback as well if you switch via the Club.

  • Step 2. Every month, without you doing anything, we do a comparison for you. Energy prices change - yours may rise, others could get cheaper. So without you doing anything, whether you switched or not, from then on we do a comparison for you in the background each month, to check you're still on the cheapest deal.

  • Step 3. Alert you when it's worth switching again. You decide what 'worth it' means, whether it's a £20 or £200 a year saving. Once we know you can save, we'll email you; and without you entering new info (unless anything's changed), we'll tell you what the cheapest options are, and let you shift at speed.

While simple to use, the technology driving the Club is substantial, (see how this could change the energy industry). We need mass action, please join & help spread the word.

We hope you save some money,

Martin Lewis & the MSE Team (PS. Do feed back on how it works, and give suggestions.)

Join the Cheap Energy Club (it's free)

QUICK MoneySavingExpert Cheap Energy Club FAQs:

Q. How much does joining the Club cost? Nothing, nada, not a penny, diddly squat, no charge EVER. Clear enough?

Q. Why a special email? This is a huge investment and we're really excited about it, so we wanted to let you know. OK, and let's be honest - while it's easy to use, it involves huge server power to crunch the data. By doing a special email we can send it more slowly than the usual weekly email, to ensure our servers don't scream at us.

Q. What changes when I switch? Not much - it's the same gas, the same electricity, the same safety. All that changes is the customer service and the price you pay. While it's plain sailing for most, some people experience hassle, but they're relatively few and far between (no promises, we can't control that bit).

Q. How much can I save? A typical home on a standard tariff pays on average £1,400 a year. Yet switch to a cheap tariff and it can drop to £1,140 for the SAME gas, SAME electricity and SAME safety.

Q. Will you sell my data on? Don't be silly, we're MoneySavingExpert - that's the last thing we'd do. Your email and info will only be used to run this for you. The only thing we may do is agglomerate it, so we can learn more about how the energy market works.

Q. Does it cost more to switch via Cheap Energy Club? Without question, no. The tariffs shown in the results are the same as the tariffs and prices you'd pay if you went direct. In fact, we'll even pay you cashback if you can switch via us.

Q. Will it include all tariffs? The default setting is a full market comparison, so you see all tariffs. There are some we're not able to track automatically, but we'll still tell you the cheapest.

Q. Won't the government changes negate this? The Government is pushing to simplify tariffs, and put you on YOUR PROVIDER'S cheapest. Yet that's unlikely to mean you'll be on the market's cheapest. Even so, it hasn't happened yet. In fact, Ed Davey, the Secretary of State for Energy, has welcomed the Cheap Energy Club and given it his support. Also his plans include enabling more 'collective switching' offers.

Q. What about collective switching? Collective switches are special, bespoke deals via trusted sources. We thought about doing that instead, but ultimately none have been as cheap as the market's cheapest. If that changes, and some energy company wants to offer a deal that kicks the butt of everything else, the Cheap Energy Club is ready-built for doing it.

Q. How long does it take to switch energy? Switching energy provider takes up to six weeks. Cashback is paid up to a further two months after, once the switch data is received.

Q. Will it include fixed tariffs? Of course. It also incorporates fixed deals, and other short-term discounts. We have designed the interface to make it very clear whether those tariffs have exit penalties. We also include MoneySavingExpert best buy tariff alerts in the tables - for where the best deal isn't necessarily the cheapest, eg, if paying slightly more allows you to lock in a long-term cheap deal with no exit penalties.

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