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   Titus
   

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   I've just received a communication from some outfit called Sell your Solar.

   Considering my solar panels bring me in more than £2,000 a year, and that the best RPI-linked annuity I can get, even at my age, is around 5% (do insurance companies really think that I'm going to live to nearly 100? I'm not the Duke of Edinburgh!) that makes the amortised profit from my panels worth at least £40,000. In fact, since the interest rate on most savings schemes is currently nearer 0.5%, that makes the value worth nearer £400,000.

   I can't see Sell Your Solar offering me anything like that, and I suspect that the only takers are likely to be poor, desperate people who urgently need to just raise as much cash as they possibly can, immediately.

   I hope not too many people get ripped off. There are enough unfortunate people who have already been scammed out of their pension funds!

   Posted 1 week ago #

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   Sinnick
   

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   Still craving attention?

   Posted 1 week ago #

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   Oxbridge
   

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   [sound of fuck not being given]

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   Titus
   

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   Still craving attention?

   Still paying attention?

   Posted 1 week ago #

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   Titus
   

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   [sound of fuck not being given]

   Yes, I think a lot of interested people can hear it, very loudly! Thank you.

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   Benvoleo
   

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   You could certainly hold out for more if you convince them your panels both paid off your £10k outlay and covered £10k towards a new car in just 6 years, despite only making 10k...you know, like you’ve convinced everyone here on NewsBiscuit...

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   Al OPecia
   

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   :-D

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   sydalg
   

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   ...that makes the amortised profit from my panels worth at least £40,000. In fact, since the interest rate on most savings schemes is currently nearer 0.5%, that makes the value worth nearer £400,000.

   Best keep that to yourself, or one of these days you'll be murdered for your solar panels and the income they promise.

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   Titus
   

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   one of these days you'll be murdered for your solar panels and the income they promise.

   Thanks for the warning! Though if I do get murdered, the executors of my estate will still get the payments.

   And even if I spot anyone sneaking off with a bucket of electricity they've stolen, I won't be that bothered. I get paid (by you, and by other consumers) for whatever I generate, regardless of where it goes (even if it is subsequently stolen) and regardless of whether it is ever actually 'fed in' to anywhere or not.

   Although I have to say, if I ever do get murdered, I suspect that it is likely to be for other reasons than in order to steal my electricity.

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    granger
    

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    I believe murder enquiries often start with the question - did he have any enemies...

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    Benvoleo
    

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    I get paid ... for whatever I generate, regardless of where it goes ... and regardless of whether it is ever actually 'fed in' to anywhere or not.

    Nope. Your contract says that to get FiTs the electricity your panels generate has to be fed into “Plant”, aka your home electrics...that’s why they are called “Feed in Tariffs”, as anyone who actually has panels will have seen in their contract...

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