Pipeline Card [Merged Threads]

Crabman

Just received an email from Mr Scamell offering a £20 voucher if a friend is recommended to pipeline.

Mr Scamell has conveniently omitted that the voucher has a £59.98 minimum spend. :rolleyes:

anewman

Crabman wrote: »

Just received an email from Mr Scamell offering a £20 voucher if a friend is recommended to pipeline.

Mr Scamell has conveniently omitted that the voucher has a £59.98 minimum spend. :rolleyes:

Some cars can reach that (to my surprise whilst I'm waiting ages for the person in front to fill up and I see £70 odd on the pump, unluckily my 47 litre tank can't. It's a good discount if you can make use of it though. 25%. Maybe if you and a friend can drive in on empty it's £10 off each.

Edit: Ignore above, I see on their site it is for Virgin Wines and not petrol. No wonder Virgin is "backing" Pipeline card. They're just in it to sell the wine and get their ££££.

Crabman

anewman wrote: »

Some cars can reach that (to my surprise whilst I'm waiting ages for the person in front to fill up and I see £70 odd on the pump, unluckily my 47 litre tank can't. It's a good discount if you can make use of it though. 25%. Maybe if you and a friend can drive in on empty it's £10 off each.

Edit: Ignore above, I see on their site it is for Virgin Wines and not petrol. No wonder Virgin is "backing" Pipeline card. They're just in it to sell the wine and get their ££££.

For a moment I thought you had a car that runs on wine (imagine at the fuel station - one for the car, one for me...):rotfl:

Incidentally there are more competitive money off vouchers for Virgin Wines on the MSE Discount Finder :j

deanos

As you know, petrol is well over a pound a litre across the country so it is vital that we succeed. To do that, we need more members... 500,000 is a great start – but it’s not enough.

Half a million people and its not enough :eek: , this bloke if full of it, if lorry companys can get discounts using bunker fuel then i cant see why pipeline cant

balsingh

I remember when this first launched, the SCAMmel appeared in papers, on TV, you name it!! Try and get him on TV now to explain himself and he'll probably run a mile!!

anewman

Probably a young man's business idea gone horribly wrong, and he hasn't ditched it yet. It's never going to work IMO.

Farnbo

I subscribed to Pipleline some time ago. In September I received an email saying they had negotiated discounted home electricity & gas prices for subscribers, and I followed the link to the web page to register my interest. After I had entered my details I was just told someone would get in touch - I had expected the site to give some indication of my likely saving and maybe take me through to the supplier's web site to make the switch. I then received an email saying that due to the high level of interest it may take a couple of weeks, but someone would contact me by phone. The email also said that a dedicated web site would be up & running by 13th October (2008). I have heard nothing from them until today, when I received another general circular email, encouraging more people to go to the web page that I visited in September, where their details will be gathered. The promised dedicated web site has still not appeared.

I emailed Pipeline in September saying that I was concerned that this seemed like a phishing scam, and if my details have been passed to their third party I am entitled to know who they are under Data Protection laws. I have emailed them again today, to ask the same question, but I don't expect a response.

This is clearly a massive phishing exercise and it confirms the growing concerns that I (and others) have about Pipeline. In these days when we have to protect our personal details to avoid spam, nuisance phone calls or worse, my advice would be to avoid Pipeline. They have achieved nothing for their subscribers in the 3-4 years they have existed but have struck deals to put them in touch with sat-nav and wine companies, and have now led them into this scam. So, you won't be missing out on much, and I regret trusting them with my details.

peter999

It's funny that they're still called Pipeline Card when there is no card to be seen !! :rotfl:

peter999

Paul_Varjak

Seems to me that Ben Scammell has simply became an agent for Utility Warehouse (AKA Telecom Plus) an MLM company!

I never did understand why Mr. Scammell was not forthcoming about which companies he was chatting to about PipeLine and now he e-mails people telling them they can save money on gas/electric. Of course he does not immediately say what companies he deals with for gas/electric - that only becomes later in the second e-mail!

Mr. Scammell has clearly got a lot of e-mail addresses since he started his PipeLine scheme and now he is merely an agent for a multi-level marketing company and is using those hundreds of thousands of e-mail addresses in his job as an agent for Utility Warehouse!

Paul_Herring

Did you not get the last email [strike]advertising[/strike] offering a £20 Virgin wines voucher for [strike]spamming[/strike] recommending your friends join the mailing list?