Change your Electricty Provider. SwitchMe.In

SwitchMe. By way of mouth people did mention that I was paying out of the roof for my electricity bill because I was using a particular service provider and not the other; in Mumbai. While this was probably true there was no way I was able to check it out for myself though I knew that I could opt for a electricity service provider of my choice. Couple of things stopped me from actually trying to reduce my electricity bill

I was not too sure how much I would save by switching (not a simple unit multiplied by INR)
How much effort would go into this (long queues for almost every thing in Mumbai)
How exactly to do it (I did bing and google for this!)

until I landed up looking at a new service on the block.

I found this concept of switchme.in very interesting.

I could log in to their website and could actually compare which electricity provider would charge me how much (for the same use of units ofcourse!) quite easily and lo when I saw that I was paying a couple of extra hundred rupees every month, I opted to switch(me) my electricity service provider.

For a small fee of five hundred rupees I was saved of all the hassles of trying to identify what papers were required and what procedure to be followed to actually affect the change. I quite literally switched my electricity service provider sitting at home (and office).

I understand these guys are going to come up with making things simple to switch my mobile operators! I always wanted to .. but did not know how to or how much effort would be involved. I am staying tuned for them to come up with a switchme option for this ;-)

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