dipole wrote:
Ireland_is_different wrote:
Then again I thought nothing of changing my phone company and my bank, so I think nothing of moving rather than have people rip me off. I must have some foreign blood in me, it's definitely not an Irish trait to move companies.
I've changed my bank already, have to keep eircom for line rental to use a breakout code for work but BB is not with Eircom.
Problem is Airtricity was set up to shelter tax income from M50 and accounting makes wind energy viable. I don't trust them. I expect they will always price according to ESB tariffs and they were calling out ESB rates to me for comparission. ESB are monopoly incumbent and the only other player is not trying to win market share just undercut by a tiny percentage.
Maybe!
I'm not trying to persuade you either way, just giving feedback on my experience. Unfortunately I don't work in the public sector so a 10% (8% discount approx) on ESB prices means a lot to me, electricity is one of my biggest bills. It would save over a hundred euro a year easily for me.
As regards bringing the M50 into this, thats like boycotting Irish Sugar/Siucra because you didn't agree with the whole Johnston Mooney and O'brien scandal in Ballsbridge ini the late 80s. When companies change ownership/management, I change my opinions of them - just as I did with Roches Stores/Debenhams

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With respect to pricing against ESB, I believe ESB held the majority of the market until recently, so that makes sense. I'd be surprised if all companies did not do the same. I know when i used to get price comparisons for broadband, companies always compared against the then current incumbent - Eircom. But like i said, I don't know how the pricing works, I don't think I've ever seen the published wholesale prices, so I'm not sure how much fat Airtricity or ESB add on!