47kg Propane Calor Gas Prices - What are you paying?

venison wrote: »

Flogas back to £49.91 here in derbyshire

venison wrote: »

yes and delivery,usually within 48 hours.

Stockist wrote: »

I have experience of both Calor & Flogas supplying us as a retailer. Both companies treat you like an idiot, which I find unbelievably irritating, some how or other they think that the average person cannot count.


How does a 47kg cylinder end up costing around £1.35-1.40 a kg when you could buy the same gas from a petrol forecourt for £0.85 -90 kg?


They will come up with a myriad of different excuses why prices have to rise - Calor are about to put on an eye watering 9p/kg price hike on and yet, when it suits them they can offer cylinders at incredibly low prices. My advice to buyers is to shop around and try to find retailers that Flogas and Calor are having a price war over the territory that they cover.


I have found suppliers in Wales that Flogas was supplying at a rate that enabled the Welsh retailer to sell 47's at £10.00 a cylinder cheaper than they would sell to us wholesale. I can assure you that there are many instances around the country where both companies lock antlers over a territory and they chop their prices to silly figures in a show of macho salesmanship.


The desperately sad thing is that whilst Flogas and Calor do this ridiculous posturing over who is is more prepared to chop their prices to win a stockist, they lie to their loyal customer over how much they have to charge to make a profit. Lets not kid ourselves, the current price increases might have a root in the Platts forward projected prices for LPG on the world market but the greater part of the increase is all about profit and bonuses.


I just wish I had had the good fortune to have invented a product that has not changed in 60 years i.e. LPG in gas cylinders, and then had the audacity to continually claim it was a difficult business. Boys, if you cannot get it right in 60 years and make a profit AND reduce your costs to give your customers a fair price then you ought to be held to account.