USwitch You Switch Uswich u switch.com uswitch.com 

www.uswitch.com was primarily a utilities comparison website however it has recently branched into home insurance and car insurance.

The Site offers:

Gas and Electricity Comparsion, Heating Cover, Broadband Internet, Mobile phones, Bundles ie package quotes that offer broadband and phone and TV etc, Credi Card comparison, Personal loans, Mortgages, Bank Current accont rates and Digital TV.

Wow thats a good selection and the site is marketed very well.

The Process is different for each product to get a quote and compare against your current annual bill giving a saving along with a recomeneded company/s offering the best rate.

Essentially Uswich make money by obtaining commission from utilities suppliers for reffering customers who then go on to sign up to the service offered. The rate of commission is unknown and probably dependent on the product. Although this by no means makes the company bias it does make them middle men effectively taking a cut from us even though the energy company is ‘paying’ the commission the money has to come from somewehere and at the end of the day the buck stops with the customer. 

The Uswich website is a great site to visit when looking for a quote and is one of the best we have found.

 1) 7/10 Useability and presentation
Clean easy to use site, but could probably do with a bit spicing up and it is rather drab especially considering how stong the advertising on the TV campaign is.

2) 8/10 Marketing
Very good results in serps and marketing on the TV for USwitch is great very attention grabbing. The site itself was awarded No1 Website by the internet traffic monitoring gurus over at hitwise for Jul to sep 2007. I dont think it has retained this top spot as sites like money supermarket are very strong currently so may have knocked them off the top spot.

3) 6/10 Credibility
All data appears to be live feed from utility suppliers and the like however there is no proof of this credibility on the site, if USwitch can validate it for us we will certainly amend this post! But there are not quotes from energy suppliers or telecoms providers to validate this. Also it would be nice to have seen customer testimonials and quotes from peeps who have saved money online.