Scam or Not?

shalloran

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Jan 23, 2009
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I had a call yesterday from someone who said they were from the Energy Efficiency Council (or something like that, didn't have a pen). They said that we are eligible for cheap loft lagging and cavity wall insulation. However, when I asked her for a website she said she didn't have one. Who doesn't have a website these days? Anyway, the prices she quoted seemed quite reasonable - about £180 for cavity walls.

Seems a bit too good to be true? Anyone else had similar phonecalls?
 

Tony

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Apr 7, 2008
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They are probably just generating lead and selling them on to numerous companies. You can get good deals on insulation at the moment, a friend of mine had it done and it made a big difference. I think he used British Gas, but as always shop around and check out Google.

Tony
 

Witch consumer

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Sep 8, 2008
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I think (although I could be wrong), that energy suppliers provide cheap insulation to their own customers in return for a grant from the Government.

So what I guess this was about was transferring your supply over to another supplier,we had cold callers doing this earlier in the year, trying to get me to transfer over to E-on with the promise of cheap insulation when I could infact, get exactly the same deal from Scottish Power, who were my supplier at the time.

What annoys me a little is that existing customers aren't hearing about the offer because the companies get no benefit from it (better insulation = lower bills)!!!