Mumsnet Talk

Go on, how long do we need to wait until the crushing disappointment of not being picked?

OVO - I don't think you could afford me, my bills are so ridiculously high - seriously. But I'm available!!!!

Perhaps mumsnet coudl change the thread title to indicate this only includes gas and electricity bills, to save annoying the thousands of mumsnetters who don't have gas so rely on other fuels ? Eg oil, coal, LPG

This sounds great. I'd love to be involved. I tried to do on my phone and got cut off. Is there any way to check my application has gone through ok? Thanks.

When is the deadline for this?

I'm already with Ovo . Can I still apply??

Bugger I just locked into a price freeze with npower!

Fingers crossed!

I just checked - I'm locked in until August but exit fee only £30 so definitely worth switching if I get picked!

well I've tried to complete the survey but when I click submit it just goes back to the mumsnet insight page abd doesn't indicate that the entry has been received

Intriguing, sounds too good to be true..

We're with EDF, who are OK, but I'm sure we could do better. just discussed this at length with dh.

Count me in!

They've stolen my name!

I need to know if they also chose the name coz it looks like an owl?

Dammit.....thanks for checking though.

Wolfcub that happened to me too, so I hope that means it's OK.

OvO I thought of you when I saw this thread, I still remember your thread when you name changed to OvO

Ahh that was the one where I modestly claimed to have the best MN name now.

I am already an OVO customer... but would love to take part... am I eligible?

I can do panels as long as they are school hols, I'm assuming lots of applicants would like term time instead though!
My dual fuel with npower ends soon so depends on dates tbh

I wonder with things like this how wide spread the views energy companies actually get are?

This isn't a rant at all, just musing.

But thinking about it, the incentive for this is having your bills paid. Now that's great but they also want AT LEAST 1-2 hours a month, maybe more AND 4 panel sessions which is actually rather a lot. But for those who only have electric that isn't actually that much. Because our electric bill is fairly low I personally am unlikely to sign up because I don't think the "pay" will be worth the time I will have to put in though I can see that it would be for those with both gas and electric.

So if it ins't worth it for me, are other electric only people also unlikely to sign up? So does the panel end up being very much skewed to those with gas and do the energy company miss out on hearing the views of electric only customers? Electric only do tend to be pretty sidelined in general, we miss out on most of the best deals.

Anyway, in the interests of actually collecting meaningful data I suppose it is something energy companies may want to think about.

Thanks Olivia

when do they let us know if we have been successful to be one of the 12?