Ambit Energy

I called up a friend in Dallas who worked at Mary Kay at the time, and asked him how they did this in a way that people looked at them with pride and respect. He told me, "Never sacrifice integrity for growth." Since then, we have held that as our mantra. Jere Thompson, Jr., Inc. 500 Interview (CEO of Ambit Energy). Really? That's not the treatment I recently encountered at Ambit Energy.

I start with this company since 6 months ago. Every month I observed that the bill goes over and over. I'm a senior and I live in a studio. This studio has a stove, a dishwasher and a refrigerator, but I can't use the dishwasher either so much the stove. Just one time during the day. Also I haven't a microwave. Just use the heater when is necessary. Just I have emails sending to this company about my inquiry, but I have no answered. Before this company I signed a contract with other and they didn't know nothing about Ambit Energy.

I transferred to Ambit after receiving a $500 bill from TXU. For the first year all was fine as I paid under $150 a month. My son and I lived in a 2 BR townhouse. My son has since moved and I moved to a smaller unit. I ran into problems when it was time to renew. I renewed in Dec 2018 per email from Ambit. A second email request to renew came in Jan 2019. I didn't respond as I had just renewed. I receive my Jan bill and it's over $200. I call and they tell me that I renewed too early in Dec and should have responded to the second request to renew and was placed on a month to month contract...which doesn't make sense since I renewed in Dec per their request.

I have never had a problem with Ambit for over 3 years. I get free electricity with their Free Energy Program and have saved a lot of money. The company sends you an email, text message and a letter about 45 days before you are up for renewal. I suspect that many of the people complaining on this site just never checked their mail or renewed and went into the default rate. My energy consultant also always reminds me to renew. I think Ambit does exactly what they say and what is written in their terms and conditions.

Don't fall for this nonsense! After my first year was up, they raised my rate by nearly 50% the first month. Now it's at nearly double the regular rate that my electric company charges! When I called to cancel, they told me it would take 1-2 months to shut it off and all the while, I have to pay these outrageous generation rates. All in all, it's going to end up costing us around $120 more by the time they change my supplier back to my normal company. This kind of stuff should be illegal.

Like others have said, they will change your plan after 1 year. They sent a mailer telling me to call but by time I actually received it, it was too late. They changed me into a variable plan for 2 months before PSEG took over. Any savings I would have had are now gone with those rates. The letter was printed on Dec. 11, 2018. I called on Jan. 12, 2019. The day my plan was supposed to end. There is no way to be able to call in the time period they give you. Also I had my gas thru them as well. They cancelled plan not me. Because it was cancelled before the year I lost my guaranteed savings. WTF. I didn't cancel it - they did!!! You only save 1% if you are lucky and able to renew the plan in a short timeframe. Otherwise you lose money!!! I am looking into class action in NJ.

I just started services with them on 1/14/19. They sent me a bill in the mail on 1/19/19 and stated I owed them $590 dollars... I proceeded to call to see if it was an error on their end and the lady who took the call answered laughing and giggling talking about people, then when I explained my issue she then put me on hold for 5 to 10 minutes (to probably finish her conversation in peace). She got back on the phone and said it was from an account from 2015 I had but which was 5 years ago... When I asked why they didn’t state this from jump when I started service the young lady said she didn’t know and then ask was that all... I then ask to speak to a supervisor and she hung up the phone... THIS COMPANY IS A COMPLETE RIPOFF. FULL OF UNPROFESSIONAL WORKERS AND DESERVES TO BE SHUTDOWN & BANKRUPT.

I have been a customer of Ambit, in upstate NY, since 2012. So have my parents and siblings. We have never had a bad experience. I have gone onto National Grid's website and did an ESCO comparison for myself as well as my family, and found that we all saved on our bills as promised. EVEN when the polar vortex hit in 2014. Our bills soared, as everyone else's did. I called Ambit & they explained why. I then called National Grid (my incumbent) & had them do a side by side comparison of my bill with Ambit & what it would have been if I had just stayed with my incumbent as my supplier. They researched it & told me that believe it or not, I actually paid LESS thru Ambit than I would have thru them.

I live on a split level house, new windows, solar panel and heat pump (electric). It's all electric. No gas or oil and they doubled the rates, i was paying 0.9 and I got charged 0.18 per kwh without notice or anything. I will call them tomorrow (Monday) and want to see what they gonna say. Also they estimate usage and that's B/S. I don't use 2600kwn per month. One time was 3400 kwn per month, and as I said I have solar panel, new windows, central heat pump etc.

Shady business practices. They prey on folks who fail to renew their contracts. My rate went from .0675 to .012375 after my guaranteed savings plan ended. They claim I should have received a notification about renewing. Never saw it. What kind of people would charge you double the average national rate. Thieves, scam artist, liars. Pure evil. Please don't make the same mistake I did.

I will never recommend this company. They charge you 10.00 to send you a letter to tell you you are late. When I requested it to be waived they told me I should pay it because it was part of my contract to give me an extension to pay my bill. When asked why they can't waive it, the answer given because I had been charged this fee in the past and had paid it. Apparently I was not aware of it then, but needless to say they charge additional fees and then unlike other companies refuse to waive them to make money. We work too hard for our money for a big company like this to just make up a fee and not inform you of this especially in a technology world of emails and online bill pay. Stay away I say!!!!

I would not recommend this company. They processed my light bill multiple times and made me wait 30 days to return the extra processed payments. Their website is very inconvenient and when I called to request a refund they stated that their website could of been not working properly which is why the payments were processed extra. Horrible company!

I signed up with Ambit because my apartment told me to sign with them. I should have pressed or looked into more options because I signed with a terribly expensive plan. The customer service is terrible. I would highly recommend another energy company like Direct Energy - my new service provider who has reasonable prices and GOOD customer service.

I have used this company since 2012. I didn't renew the notice since I had never received the renewal notice. So I was automatically billed at a monthly rate for many years and I had paid extra thousand of dollars. The company tried to expand their coverage and never provided customer services.

I was with Ambit Energy for 6 months. Their customer service is terrible! Yesterday I was on the phone for 58 min. The first 40 were wasted on hold waiting for a live person to answer my billing question. Once I got a live person lets just say that English is not their first language. They are relentless with their payment schedule. There is no leniency with their short due dates. Typically I pay my bill within a week of receiving it. EVERY month I got late charge and threat of having my services disconnected.

It was very simple to switch to Ambit Energy as my supplier. They offer lower rates than my provider National Grid which is why I chose them. People need to do their research on energy deregulation and the benefits you can gain by switching to Ambit Energy. I live in the Massachusetts which the energy market is different for every state that Ambit services. There's no sign up cost, no contracts and no cancellation fees. I've been with Ambit for about a year now and I've saved $500 so far. Looking forward to more future savings.

Just call customer service at any time of the day and see how long they keep you waiting. Don't press new account, press something like billing or representative, you will be waiting at least 45 minutes. Then they will give you an option "press 1 for a callback," please do it! You will never receive that callback. They charged us from the wrong meter, I know it was CenterPoints fault because they gave them the wrong meter. But now, after 2 months, the issue was corrected by me, my wife and Centerpoint, still, they keep saying that there was no problem at all and we never overpaid (when clearly they have the wrong meter number on our bill).

I have never had electricity bills like this. One person, very frugal. Senior citizen/Veteran... living on social security and disability... called to say I would be late paying, they ok'D my delay. I paid my bill which included a 60 dollar reconnect fee... and two hours later... they turned off my electricity. I never have lights on if I am not in the room, do maybe three loads of laundry per week, frequently gone for two to three weeks at a time, keep the ac 76-78. My last bill was 220 dollars before the 60 dollar add-on... should never have left TXU. There is no flexibility with this company!

I have used Ambit Energy for almost 3 years. I never have any issue with renewed and the rate they give is normally cheaper than all other ESCO, I don't understand those comments below. There is always needed renewing for fix rate, if not then you will switch to the variable rate automatically. Common sense people! You always need to renew no matter what company you used.

I was paying a 13 kwh with my previous company... Amazingly with Ambit I'm paying 9.2 kwh and somehow my bills are higher with Ambit. After comparing a few bills with similar usage same months Ambit is still higher. I did ask if there are any hidden fees, or fees outside of the normal taxes before signing with them was assured no by the sales rep, and direct Ambit employees. They told me that because of Oncor raising their fees was the reason I saw the increase... I asked what date did this take effect, I was told September... Every example I looked at for the higher bill was before September. Stay away from Ambit, they have extra fees probably why they offer the deceivingly low rates. And it's 199 dollars to break your contract.

Wow! These reviews! I've been with Ambit at least 6 yrs and for those yrs, summer/Winter my bill has been consistent, give or take a (few) dollars. This is why I stayed. Which for Me is a plus, never experienced extreme bills. Always have gotten letters of renewal, with ample enough time to renew. I've never had to Ask for extension, so I wouldn't be able to share on that, however I had to call Ambit a Couple of days ago, and I did hold for 45 mins Way too long. The representative was helpful, As well as professional!

I have been with Ambit Energy as my 3rd party supplier for 3 years! At first we received a massive discounted rate and saved $96 our first month! No problem renewing! ALSO, have received FREE ENERGY for since April 2015! It has saved us $3500.00 so far!!!

I've used Ambit for a few years now. During certain months of the years, my bill is the lowest its ever been. However, there are a few ways in which they make their money back. The summer bills are at least three times as high as your average the rest of the year. They will send you notices of near late payments, but won't notify you of disconnects AFTER you've spoken with them about customer service needs. Then they charge ridiculous reconnect and redeposit fees.

Amibt Energy claims to save you money on your electric - and they will for a short time. They will mail you a postcard that looks like a advertisement to tell you - call to lock in your rate. If you do not see this postcard - many do not - they will charge your triple what Com Ed will charge. Your small saving is sucked up and you are billed more than you ever saved. Then they tell you it will take two bill cycles to switch you back. They are screwing people everywhere and getting away with it. RUN from this company.

I switched to Ambit a few years ago, and like everyone else was swayed by the cheap rate... that was only good for 6 months. More and more rates rose and they seemed to dream up more and more fees. $2.50 to make a payment anyway other than the old stamp and envelope method. Then you get penalized $9.99 for not using enough electricity... wth? Aren't we supposed to be conserving energy?

BEWARE! You sign up at an introductory rate and then they supposedly send you a notice (NEVER RECEIVED) and an email (ALSO NEVER RECEIVED) and when you don't respond they enter you into a variable month-to-month rate which is over double the rates of all other carriers. I even put a reminder on my calendar to check the energy rates which I did. The rates I saw online were still low so I stayed put. I did NOT know that they would change the plan that I was in and move me to this outrageously expensive plan. RIDICULOUS!

I went online while chatting with an agent to make a payment. I accidentally entered the wrong payment amount and within minutes I notified Ambit customer service to see if they could stop the ach payment I did and they said no. That it would be a credit on my account but I could request a refund once the payment has cleared. Well the money cleared my account and so, I requested that the credit on the account be refunded back to me and they are telling me it will take 20-30 days to receive a credit; however if my bill generates within that timeframe then my credit request would be rejected. So, I told them that the money was meant for this account and if my due date isn't until mid month of August then they shouldn't keep my money. They apologize and said that's their policy.

I've been with them for 3 years and it has gotten progressively worse! My bill is now in the $300s and whenever I call they can never give me any details or reasons. I made a payment with the wrong account and realized it 10 minutes later so I called trying to cancel the payment and of course they can't do it and I'm going to get a $25 fee. I made the mistake of renewing my contract and DESPERATELY want to get out of it but they're going to charge me $300 to break it. Please please please just go with another company, I wouldn't want anyone to have to deal with this company.

All work all day!! Have small kids and make sure everything is off and also put the thermostat at the temp. THEY (Ambit Energy) said to for some odd reason my bill was 300.00!!! I ask how? Why? They don’t know...they not sure. I asked the rep I needed details 'cause I don’t understand. THEY DON'T KNOW!! I flipped out!!! Right at this moment I’m have to switch 'cause this do not make sense at all!!! I’m so mad I’m shaking!! Don't get Ambit. They charge you and cannot explain NOTHING!!!

RUN FROM THIS COMPANY!!! My apartment management set me up with them. So I called to set my deposit and setup autopay MONTHS AGO and their autopay never worked. I kept having overdue bills and then paying them by phone. I have very good credit and have never had difficulty paying bills before but these guys have the worst customer service. They also don't contact you to let you know an autopayment didn't go through. They have my email- I know because they send me emails for advertisements and they know my phone number but I received zero calls to let me know they were going to shut off my power.