Possible 5p-10p/litre petrol discount

bordercars

just had email from pipeline as follows

Membership numbers have now increased to over 180,000 and the number of websites and forums linking to Pipeline is over 3000! This is incredible - and it's all down to our members.

http://www.pipelinecard.org/linkto.html

Spikey_2

so what does all this mean.....?

Midmac

Dear Pipeline Card Member,

This has been a very exciting couple of week for Pipeline. I did my first ever
TV interview - and it went out on ITN news at 6.30 and 10.30. They also showed
details of a scheme that is already up and running in Holland offering discounts
of around 6 cents a litre. Check out our media page for a link to the story if
you missed it and, if you've got broadband, you can watch the actual film
footage.

Membership numbers have now increased to over 180,000 and the number of websites
and forums linking to Pipeline is over 3000! This is incredible - and it's all
down to our members.

Many of you have written in and asked why it is taking such a long time to get
the cards issued. I share your impatience; we all want to get this off the
ground but nothing like this has ever been done in the UK and it takes time to
sort everything out. We are working hard to get the best deal we can for our
members but, as we have said all along, it will be April or even May before we
are ready to launch. We would like to be able to give you more details about
where the Pipeline Card can be used and how it will work but until that has all
been agreed and contracted you will just have to bear with us. It will be worth
it!

Lots of you have asked if we could produce some banners and buttons so you can
link to Pipeline Card from your websites. We have now set up a page on the site
and you can download them from https://www.PipelineCard.org/linkto.html. We have also
included a downloadable poster for those places the internet can't reach!
Thanks again to everybody who has written in offering support. It all helps us
to reach more people and improve our purchasing power. Keep spreading the word -
we still want more people to register. The more we have at this stage, the
better.

Finally, on the subject of purchasing, we have had dozens of approaches from
companies offering special deals on various goods and services. Most of these
have been wholly unrelated to Pipeline and its aims so we have politely declined
to feature them on the site. More recently though, we have identified some
organisations that seem to offer us genuine savings on motoring-related
services. As you know, our strict Privacy Policy prohibits us from passing on
your personal data to these organisations but we may consider featuring some of
them on the website at some stage if they are good enough.

That's it for now. Don't forget that you can recommend Pipeline by using
https://www.PipelineCard.org/recommend.html And you can unsubscribe as a member at any
time by sending a blank email to unsubscribe@PipelineCard.org.

Best wishes

Ben Scammell - Pipeline Card Founder

clearvisor

ASB wrote:

:T My Dad sent me an email about this, first thing I did was scan the forums for references, so thanks for this website its great. Have signed up and forwarded to friends ASB

Think it's so great to get so many people involved in this, I'm now wondering if we can all do this,
Why can't we do some thing about the council Tax,
Have they got room to lock 30,000 people up?
:T
Clearvisor

Paul_Herring

Spikey wrote:

so what does all this mean.....?

It means that it's still (as we say in the computer industry) vapourware. Still no concrete details ("*up to* 5-10p off"), still no concrete dates ("April or May.")

MORPH3US

Paul_Herring wrote:

It means that it's still (as we say in the computer industry) vapourware. Still no concrete details ("*up to* 5-10p off"), still no concrete dates ("April or May.")

Is anyone else fed up of waiting for details on this?

Maybe i'm just being impatient but think about it. This "Scheme" has been running for 4 / 5 months now, still no confirmation of the actual amount of discount, still no confirmation of which retailer it will be and still not confirmed date about when it will be opperating.

Fair enough when they say "we can't start the scheme until we have enough people" but surely they have already negotiated the details with the retailer.

What are the chances that it ends up being 5p a litre off BP prices which are generally at least 5p a litre more expensive than the Supermarkets around me!

M

Woby_Tide

Tell me about it, all this waiting around is costing us a fortune for all that time and effort we've put in to making sure we get a good discount.

Does this Scammel bloke have any idea how long it took me to register and read the 3 e-mails he has sent me so far. Quite frankly it's DISGUSTING and I shall wait no longer, I am going to fill up my car with petrol whether he likes it or not.:rolleyes:

Maybe we should all buy some petrol to show our defiance?

:think: :think: :think: :shhh:

MORPH3US

I just love a good cup of Sarcasm in the morning!

I think you read a bit more into my post than I intended but hey ho!

Woby_Tide

I just love the fact that people wil complain about something that hasn't cost them a thing but may well offer them a saving at some point in the future. Someone has taken the effort to kickstart all this and do the donkeywork on everyone elses behalf, yet people then have the audacity to knock them over it for it taking a while to sort out(despite them sending out e-mails to keep people up to date). if they had said, we'll have details in April, then don't actually manage to get enoughs ubscribers by that time and have to postpone, people would be moaning about that too. Even big corporations and companies only provide tentative dates for most things too fo the same reason. If it all comes off we all get a benefit from someone else's work and everyones a winner, if it fails to take off, it's cost you nothing, but someone else a lot of time and effort. Moaning about it helps no-one.

Maybe you could help out by drumming up some more subscribers to reach the targets earlier?

chas1937

Latest email in today is that now over 200,000 have signed up