{"id":9562,"date":"2021-03-07T17:43:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T17:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=9562"},"modified":"2021-03-28T09:47:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T08:47:15","slug":"how-to-pay-your-utility-bill-with-amex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2021\/03\/07\/how-to-pay-your-utility-bill-with-amex\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Pay Your Utility Bill with Amex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a point collector, it is in my greatest interest to put as much spend through credit card (and of course, ideally an Amex) as possible. So today let&#8217;s have a look at utility bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/american-express.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/american-express.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1433\" width=\"333\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/american-express.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/american-express-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the UK, we are free to choose whichever Gas &amp; Electricity provider we want, although in my case the building uses communal heating so I can only choose one for electricity. The biggest factor when choosing surely is price, however being able to collect some points along the way is definitely a bonus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some providers only accept Direct Debit, whereas others let you pay with a credit card. Even better, the following providers are happy to take American Express:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bulb<\/li><li>EDF Energy<\/li><li>Ecotricity<\/li><li>Green<\/li><li>Igloo Energy<\/li><li>Octopus Energy<\/li><li>Orbit<\/li><li>Outfox the Market<\/li><li>OVO<\/li><li>Spark Energy<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking for myself, I&#8217;ve been on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/octopus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Octopus Energy<\/a> for three months and the experience has been quite good so far. I chose Octopus as a result of friends&#8217; recommendation, and they have a pretty solid 4.8 rating on TrustPilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Annotation-2021-03-06-201320.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Annotation-2021-03-06-201320.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9561\" width=\"400\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Annotation-2021-03-06-201320.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Annotation-2021-03-06-201320-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Annotation-2021-03-06-201320-768x390.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Should you be interested as well, please consider signing up using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/octopus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">my referral link<\/a> and we will both earn a bonus credit of \u00a350 once your switch in complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once your account is set up, change your Direct Debit payment amount to just \u00a31 per month, so that you can pay the rest manually with a credit card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a point collector, it is in my greatest interest to put as much spend through credit card (and of course, ideally an Amex) as possible.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amex","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9666,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562\/revisions\/9666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}