Adding a car charger to this old house. How can Octopus give a standard price without details?

[saveasteading]

I came across Octopus offering car charger fitting for fixed price.

All on one page they ask if you own the house and if the charging point will be on your land and.....

and nothing . The next page is contact details and " buy now".

They don't ask what the house construction is, or if the ground is lawn or concrete, or if the meter is in a basement.

 

I don't click "buy now" lightly, so perhaps the next page allows for extras to the fixed price, or exclusions.

 

Perhaps an electrician and a labourer turn up and deal with whatever is there, and Octopus risk it as swings and roundabouts?

I doubt it, as a hard yard will need expensive reinstatement.  £875 sounds cheap to me if it has a 450mm deep trench.

 

I would only want 20m of cable. But for over 30m they do a special quote. In that they ask all the sensible questions  adding, whether you live in a house or a flat, and is the meter on an outside wall.

Then they ask for a photo of the meter installation.
Other sensible questions may follow.

 

Does something happen at 30m of cable that costs more? Is it just marketing o page one and the extras follow?

 

I am only throwing this in , on the off-chance that someone has been through this. If it is really £875 then I'm having it.

 

[JohnMo]

5 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

came across Octopus offering car charger fitting for fixed price.

Possibly a loss leader, they win some loose some, but ultimately they want you buying their electric, they may also be able to lease a car to you?

[joe90]

8 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

If it is really £875 then I'm having it.

Then why not , if they try charging “extras” then decline 🤷‍♂️
 

as an aside my daughters partner has just stared working fir Octopus fitting solar panels and he is well impressed with them as an employer.

Edited August 16 by joe90

[markocosic]

Read the terms - it's a bait and switch.

 

Price is £X...but only after you contract do they tell you the actual price.

 

They also don't trench. "cable must be run along walls" means then only thing they'll do is nail a cable through walls and along walls. No basements. No digging. No hiding cable. No mounting chargers on posts etc.

 

Their base price is one hole through the wall, tying into the meter tails, and bodging an ugly cable along the outside of teh house to an EV charger nailed onto the wall on the pish.