Friday, March 14, 2008

Ch-ch-changes!

Today is Kennen's last day of in home speech therapy. I'm sad actually. He is turning 3 next week and so will expire his therapy. He is going to continue on with speech classes at the elementary school and he is definitely ready for that next step. I'm sad though because his therapist has sort of become my friend. How do I go about saying...'so....do you want to hang out sometime?' I guess just like that huh? We shall see. Oh! That reminds me...I need to run to the store and get her a small fare-thee-well teacher gift.

On to another big change. This is a question for people that live in New York, Illinois, and Texas. These three states (among many more) have deregulated energy. You can choose which retail company to purchase your electricity through. My contract is up with Reliant (devil) Energy and now I have so many companies to choose from. There is one company called Ambit Energy and it is an electric company that will sell energy to you for the bargain price of 10.5 cents per kWh. How do they do it? Their 'marketing' is through a MLM (I think it means multi level marketing). Aka a pyramid scheme. You can pay $400 to become a 'consultant' and you make money by getting people to switch to Ambit as their electric company. You also recruit other 'consultants' underneath you and apparently that is where the big pyramid scheme money is made. Don't worry blog world. I don't want to become a 'consultant'. I can just be an electric company customer. Does anybody have an real deal experience with this company as their electricity dealer? I don't care if you are a consultant and have a great business opportunity for me to make money from home. I can sell used socks on ebay if I want to make money from home. I just want to know if you are a real customer or Ambit and really pay 10.5 cents per kWh.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

We use Stream Energy and are locked into a 3 year contract paying 10.29 cents per killowatt hour. No problems with it whatsoever. I LOVE IT!!! NEVER have any billing problems! :)

Mrstx said...

really? Stream is another company that has the MLM on the side thing. I called Stream and they said that they can only do variable at 13.5 cents right now. No thanks to that! The lady said that I will be able to lock in at a lower rate probably closer to the summer though. Did Stream ever hit you up to become a 'consultant'?

~Penny~ said...

I have con edison and I pay.....16.9-21 cents! It is horrible. I am only at my place half the time and I am very conscious about leaving lights on and stuff and the minimum I pay is 65$ a month.

For a single that is HORRIBLE! Electric companies are scams...they are the devil. And the kicker, I only have one other choice, Keyspan. Which is a bigger devil.

And that is my rant.

~Penny~ said...

I have con edison and I pay.....16.9-21 cents! It is horrible. I am only at my place half the time and I am very conscious about leaving lights on and stuff and the minimum I pay is 65$ a month.

For a single that is HORRIBLE! Electric companies are scams...they are the devil. And the kicker, I only have one other choice, Keyspan. Which is a bigger devil.

And that is my rant.

Mrstx said...

lmao Penny! How do you really feel about it? hee hee.

My highest bill last summer was $500. e.v.i.l.

Anonymous said...

I'm just shocked that people are trying to sell their "used" socks but the fact that there are bids on some of them is horrifying!!!!!

Never, EVER buy the tube socks though - I've seen American Pie - I know what boys do with them!!!

Keikicakes said...

I know you have talked about selling used socks on ebay but...I have NEVER looked at the listings.....I CAN NOT believe that there are multiple people bidding on them.

Anonymous said...

haha...that's too funny. And i thought the used bras were interesting. Okay, i was looking at one of the sellers used socks, it's totally like mini porn for those feet lovers out there... yuck, like id: sockittomegirl

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Genevieve said...

I never knew there was a market for used socks but I tell you what, I am tickled pink. I wonder if people deal in widowed socks... If so, I'm sitting on a goldmine!

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