{"id":79614,"date":"2018-02-11T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/loyalty-to-british-gas-cost-me-629-for-a-years-cover\/"},"modified":"2018-02-11T15:04:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T08:04:14","slug":"loyalty-to-british-gas-cost-me-629-for-a-years-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/loyalty-to-british-gas-cost-me-629-for-a-years-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Loyalty to British Gas cost me \u00a3629 for a year\u2019s cover\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nI cancelled my agreement and found that as a new customer the same cover would be \u00a3384Having recently retired, I have been taking a keener interest in my outgoings. As I went through all the paperwork, I was staggered to see that Scottish Gas (British Gas) has demanded \u00a3629 to renew my HomeCare 4 agreement which covers my boiler, central heating and plumbing. I had been paying it by direct debit which, more than likely, made me a bit lax in checking the renewal quotes and as result it must have slowly crept up. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2018\/feb\/11\/british-gas-boiler-cover-insurance-cost-homecare\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Loyalty to British Gas cost me \u00a3629 for a year\u2019s cover\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; I cancelled my agreement and found that as a new customer the same cover would&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-kI6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":82578,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-does-british-gas-fail-to-service-my-boiler-annually\/","url_meta":{"origin":79614,"position":0},"title":"Why does British Gas fail to service my boiler annually?","date":"March 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The company says emergencies caused by extreme weather have forced it to put off routine workYou featured the case of the British Gas customer who was asked to pay \u00a3629 to renew their HomeCare Four cover. 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