# Weird dudes going around asking about electrical bill? **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 17, 2010, 11:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-dudes-going-around-asking-about-electrical-bill/251531 "2010-04-17T11:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![love4boost](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/love4boost/32/6658_2.png) [@love4boost](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/love4boost)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-dudes-going-around-asking-about-electrical-bill/251531/21 "2012-08-25T21:03:02Z")
> [@Gutting a catalytic converter](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gutting-a-catalytic-converter/50599/2): > > If they are a legitimate company, then their method of using “drive by marketing” is poor. > > How can you take anyone serious by sending a stranger showing up on your door and ask to go over you bills and take all your personal info? I guess I will have to miss out on those savings… completely agree with u but the people coming to your door are all given false hope by another person higher on the totum pole that they can make tons of money so they try and hustle anyway they can… i personally went to one of those ambit energy meetings and though i could tell it was bullshit they made it sound real convincing… Those people will give up after a few months and new people will repeat the process but the first people that got them into it will get the residual income forever ---
**Author:** ![QuickLT1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/eada6e/32.png) [@QuickLT1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/QuickLT1)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-dudes-going-around-asking-about-electrical-bill/251531/22 "2012-08-26T00:03:29Z")
Its all BS like others had said already. Just stay with National Greed and feed my pay check. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Shady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Shady](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shady)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-dudes-going-around-asking-about-electrical-bill/251531/23 "2012-08-26T08:28:34Z")
It is a scam, but its not… Basically they re-sell energy, they will give you your electric and gas at a fixed price, it won’t fluctuate. They come to your house, look at your bill and then give you a rate in which you will be billed in gas and electric thats probably much cheaper than what your paying. They tend to do this when your bill is usually on the high side, when the price per however the fuck they measure it is higher. Problem is, eventually national grids price per whatever the fuck, Killowat hour? and whatever gas is will go down, it happens frequently at different tiems of the year. So while National Grids price goes down, your still stuck paying the higher price because your locked in to some bullshit 3rd party energy suppliers rates It’s not like your going to lose an astronomical ammount of money, but its stupid and I would tell anyone whos doing it or thinking about it to slap themselves and just stick with Nat Grid ---
**Author:** ![88slowmarro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/88slowmarro/32/6339_2.png) [@88slowmarro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/88slowmarro)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-dudes-going-around-asking-about-electrical-bill/251531/24 "2012-08-26T12:40:28Z")
We are not locked at a/v , looking at my past bi/s "exactly a yr ago my bills r 20-40 dollars cheaper . ---
**Author:** ![HudsonFalcon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/hudsonfalcon/32/6460_2.png) [@HudsonFalcon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HudsonFalcon)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-dudes-going-around-asking-about-electrical-bill/251531/25 "2012-08-26T12:51:59Z")
Pretty much what Shady said. They lock in you at a certain rate so one month you might save a bit while another month you might pay a bit more. Their salesman are just creepy as fuck but who the hell wants to go door to door selling energy? ---
**Author:** ![88slowmarro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/88slowmarro/32/6339_2.png) [@88slowmarro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/88slowmarro)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-dudes-going-around-asking-about-electrical-bill/251531/26 "2012-08-26T14:21:19Z")
My wife don’t , nor do they want ya to " her company anyway" . They have a home meeting "like avon " and pitch it and so on . No creeping or anything . All there shit is all open and can see options . ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@Alpine](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-dudes-going-around-asking-about-electrical-bill/251531/27 "2012-08-26T15:00:47Z")
> [@NYSpeed Track Day #1 - Friday June 15th, 2007](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nyspeed-track-day-1-friday-june-15th-2007/26320/459): > > **Missed the part about who they are exactly or from what company.** > [@took a little road trip yesturday and...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/took-a-little-road-trip-yesturday-and/31085/16): > > They just stopped by again, **I didn’t bother getting any details** Now I see why you ride a Suzuki :rofl ---
**Author:** ![PJB](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pjb/32/6389_2.png) [@PJB](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PJB)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-dudes-going-around-asking-about-electrical-bill/251531/28 "2012-08-26T18:07:25Z")
I had a guy from Steakhouse Steaks come to my door selling steaks today. Buying meat out of the bed of a pickup isnt shady, right? I had to tell him twice that Ive already got a freezer full of steak and venision and didnt want anymore. I dont even eat steak in the first place but I wasnt about to get into that with him. ---
**Author:** ![JSEnclosures](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jsenclosures/32/6678_2.png) [@JSEnclosures](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JSEnclosures)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 8:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-dudes-going-around-asking-about-electrical-bill/251531/29 "2012-08-28T08:58:24Z")
what happens is you actually end up paying a small fee each month if you do not choose your power or gas supplier, national grid doesn’t supply the power, they just deliver it. They buy it and sell it to you, by selecting your energy supplier you essentially skip n-grid as the middle man and save ~.000001 cents per kilowatt hour or some very miniscuel amount, but you also save the charge for selecting an energy supplier. Bill still comes from national grid and nothing charges in terms of that, no extra bills or any nonsence. All this is because gas and electric is de-regulated. I went to ambit about a year ago, i instantly started saving about 10% on my bill each month and still do. it went from 110 to 100ish (small apartment). there are many different ones out there, most make you sign a contract for a couple years. Ambit doesn’t make you sign a contract and you can switch at any time. if you refer 15 people you get their average power use-age bill subtracted from yours, pretty much giving you free power (i havent done that, nor do i really care to). you still have to pay the delivery fee since that’s n-grid. you also get bonus points like a credit card to redeem on stuff. My father and all his neighbors have had ambit for a few years now, so i already knew it was tried and tested before i switched over. figured it’s a bill i’m paying anyways so i might as well save a couple bucks each month and earn points i’ll probably never redeem anyways. you can cancel anytime so it’s nothing you’re locked into. most the other ones make you sign a contract, lower your rates for the first couple months and then jack them up. then they charge you a cancelation fee if you want to get out, ambit guarantees you a saving of i think 2%. like i said, it’s a very small savings, but your paying it anyways, why not save a couple bucks. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-dudes-going-around-asking-about-electrical-bill/251531.md?page=1)