Comments on: Electricity Saver

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:21:49 +0000

I got sold one of these from a cold call over the phone from “the electricity company” (I’m in the Uk) who started with “this being a free gift for my prompt regular payments of my bills but although it was free “gift” they just wanted to check my credit card details to make sure their records are correct. They gave me a London phone number so I could check them out. As the conversation progressed, it turned out that it was to cost me £99 but I would get this money back in 3 months. I realised it was a scam within about 5 seconds but they were oblivious to my constant laughter as I gave the most ridiculous answers to their questions.
When they asked for my card details over the phone at the start of the call to check their records, I made up a totally fictitious 16 digit credit card number, expiry date and security number. An hour later they phoned back saying they were having trouble processing the payment (of my fictitious card details) could they check the details ? Somehow even though at that point I told them that I definitely wasn’t interested and would report them to the Police as it was so obviously a scam, it turned up in the post today with an invoice from ITS Corps in Florida but posted within the UK. Apologies to the poor guy who’s credit card details match the ones that I made up on the spur of the moment !
Sadly. Some people obviously fall for this rubbish or they wouldn’t keep doing the cold call scam. “Neety”. You must work for one of them ? Don’t beleive a word. If these things actually worked and saved you money and energy use, I think we’d all have heard of them and the power companies would be selling them to us.

By: gagan

gagan — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:38:05 +0000

can anyone tell me that , these power-savers can at-least stops fluctuations..?well power fluctuation is a great problem ,my high ended electronics are getting scrap due to these fluctuations, …..somebody told me to by power-saver ,,,will it help me..

By: Neety

Neety — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:50:58 +0000

I paid $99 for one of these at the Easter Show last year, with a guarantee of money back if it didn’t save me 10% off my bill. I asked my son who works for the power company what he thought and he said it should work – so I plugged it in and ever since my bill has dropped 30% – without making any other changes. Maybe its a coincidence, but I won’t be asking for a refund!!

By: pepe mercado

pepe mercado — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:20:53 +0000

unfortunately “Economizer” for residential use is not available yet, still under investigation.

By: pepe mercado

pepe mercado — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:00:31 +0000

check out our website, some of our customers in mexico are walmart, coca cola co., kodak… in the USA, frontier foods cold storage, carl’s jr hamburguers………. it will save a minimum of 10% or your money back. (in writing). patented in the U.S. and MEXICO. some of our customers are saving up to 30% in thier electric bill. this is feasible for locations with $2,000.00 a month in their electric bill. the economizer was invented by the same family that invented tha Color TV, legitimate brain Power.
feel fre to email to get more information. economizer@usa.com………regards pepe m.

By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:25:55 +0000

I lost $400 for this scam. a caller introduced himself as an agent who work for the government in relation to a new released green energy rebate, saying that the federal government is offering this for every household, the device cost around $750 but its totally free of charge for you, you only need to pay a deposit of $400 for two devices that would reduce the electricity bill by %50, you recieve these devices throught the post office, and you pay $400 cash for them. and you get your money back after 90 days” this what I was told on the phone and thought that its a genuinely a government agency. So I went to the post office and paid $400.00 cash and received the package with one device, which would worth at most $20. Even within post office, I realised that it is a scam and asked them to give my money back, but they didn’t do that, saying we cannot do anything about that. This was redicolous, coz I thought the post office also cooperate with the scammers to ripoff people. Only in the post office I could find out that this is a scam, but Post office works in favour of scammer, while I haven’t left the post office yet, they didn’t give my money back.

By: Rob C

Rob C — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:34:52 +0000

Some excellent discussions here. Been 20 years since I’ve seen such lively discussion on power factor. Like many on this thread I’m quite annoyed at the modern purveyors of power saving snake oil and especially the local current affairs programs that are, perhaps ignorantly, complicit in this rip-off. I am a professional engineer and despite knowing the reasons why these devices in their own right will _not_ save residential consumers money there does seem to be a few well meaning people claiming that they work. I think the reason for this is simple behavior modification. If you pay several hundred dollars for a plug in ‘power saving’ device I bet that’s happened after an unwelcome large bill and you are now likely to be prowling the house for unattended lights to be switched off: therein lies the power saving. Therefore, for anyone considering buying on of these energy saving placebos, save more than your power and buy a plug in _Energy Meter_ (about $30 at the electronics store), use that to spawn your power saving activities..

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:01:04 +0000

Thanks to www and to this page!
I won’t buy this divice, no sence to do that.

By: biaye

biaye — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:00:30 +0000

la science doit être objective et donc seul le résultat compte.
Peut être en Australie et bien dans d’autre pays du monde, le dispositif power saver n’économise pas la consommation d’énergie résidentielle, mais chez nous au sénégal, moi j’en distribue parceque j’ai fais le test pendant 2mois et j’ai recçu ma facture avec une réduction de 33% et jusque là je ne plains pas par rapport au temps passés comme les période de canicule etc………
NB: les 80% de mes ventes sont opérées sur recommandation des clients qui en ont déjà vécu l’expérience. NB: je vends sur garantie de satisfaction pour trois facture au minimum (06mois) et jusque là nous sommes à 100% de satisfaction d’aprés mon service de gestion de relation client. Vive la science, la technique et la technologie. merci! mbmarketing04@gmail.com

By: Kellie

Kellie — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:36:37 +0000

HELP I need to save money and i thought this would be a good idea but after reading IDK so HELP. What is good to help my family out save money?