Maybe instead of giving money to super rich venue owners and super rich performers... give all those multimillions to your customers as reduced prices (We know your shareholders need their billions to afford their heating bills etc) but its insulting saying you want to 'give back', we are only profits for you and your shareholders.

@garysimpson profits margins for energy suppliers are actually razor thin. There just isn’t the option to lower prices unless the upstream wholesale market prices go down - and this is regardless of shareholders or marketing/sponsorship stuff. It’s the generators making mega profits, not suppliers!

Probably also worth mentioning that these performers are supported by their fans - no fans = no income for them either. It’s a necessary evil for all parties involved to get these deals in order to keep going.

And besides, profit is how a business keeps going - if you never make a profit, you’ll eventually crash and burn. Let’s just say too many energy suppliers have already found  that out the hard way...

And it’s irrelevant anyway, the purpose of this particular giveaway is intended for members of the OVO Forum as a whole - you don’t even have to be an OVO Customer to enter this one. As it so happens, the OVO Forum is literally the least profitable part of OVO to ever exist - it costs over £100,000 a year to run just in staff salaries for the Forum Moderators, yet brings in precisely 0p a year of revenue for the business. With no way to financially support the business, the Forum has to prove it’s worthy of staying via other means.

And those other means are the power of the community that’s built up here - it’s one of the most powerful UK Forums of its type for a reason.

There is also no cost to you to enter this giveaway - you’ll only incur travel costs (and maybe food/drink/hotel) if you win, but that’s about it.

Not everything has to be about money!

I currently hold a total of zero shares in any company. I once held something like 48 share options (might have been 24 though) in my old employer. I no longer hold them because I converted them to shares and cashed them in by selling them a couple of years later. That employer has nothing to do with the energy industry and it was the only time I’ve ever played with the stocks and shares market.

Looks like I sold them at just the right time too - Capital Gains Tax personal exemption allowances (basically what you can get from Capital Gains on a tax-free basis) have been absolutely hammered away to almost nothing since then.

I have no plans to play again.

For your information, if I did have shares in OVO, legally speaking I’d have to disclose that in literally every single comment I post on the Forum. The fact I don’t should be a clue I have none.

Now, if you don’t mind, I’d rather leave this thread focused on what it was intended for.