Janet Albrechtsen the latest to see the benefits of bartering
Well-known newspaper columnist and lawyer Janet Albrechtsen is the latest to discover the value of shopping around for cheaper power.
In her Australian Newspaper column published last week, Albrechtsen explains how she took the initiative and received a whopping 24% discount on her power bill by simply calling and asking her provider, AGL, for a price shake down.
What’s more, no new contract was required or sneaky fine print to decipher - all she was required to do in order to access the significant discount was pay her bill on time.
Easy right?
Get this… Janet went on to reveal in her piece that when she asked the friendly customer service representative whether lots of other people had been calling to demand a better deal, the response was – NO!
Well, “not many people”, was the exact quote.
Yes FiftyUps, we are entitled to blame energy providers and politicians for their role in price hikes but we can only blame ourselves for not being proactive and contacting our providers for a discount.
So it’s time we stopped complaining, picked up the phone or shopped around online for a better energy offer because there are real savings waiting to be had.
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By all means, ask your current provider if they can beat it.
As we wrote last week, 2 million of us are on dud deals. And what was our fearless Federal government’s solution to the problem? A measly letter.
So called crisis talks with big energy CEO’s proved to be a case of much ado about nothing with the outcome resulting in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull requesting energy retailers to pen a letter to their respective customers politely explaining that, well, we were getting ripped off!
Talk about having it shoved in our faces.
Now with the longer days fast approaching and summer just around the corner, the energy price spike is set to prick even harder into Aussie households as we start blasting our air conditioners with reckless abandon.
As quarterly energy bills start landing into your letterbox, it’s important you don’t wait for your energy provider’s obligatory mail correspondence and start shopping around yourself NOW in search of a better deal.
Remember the life advice good old Uncle Joe imparted upon you all those years ago, “No one is going to help you but YOU!”
