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

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Hitch Hertfordshire: -
47kg £61.05
13kg £30.26.


Ian

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Bit odd flogas jan £45 then £47 then £49 now back to £47.

fewkeste

For 47Kg, In Notts, Calor are now charging £51.63 + VAT = £54.21 plus £5.00 for delivery!!! (irrespective of the number of cylinders you buy) That delivery charge has doubled (used to be £2.50.)

Flogas are showing £52.35 + VAT = £54.96 on my online account (not sure if they have introduced delivery charges)

Anyone know of better prices in Notts?

When I mentioned to Calor that the price seemed high given that oil prices are low (I was previously told LPG prices are linked to oil prices and that is why they went up when oil prices went up) but they don't seem to come down when oil prices fall :mad:, the women I was speaking to knew nothing about that link but admitted she was fairly new in post.

The domestic LPG market seems to have all the hallmarks of a cartel.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck & quacks like a duck....

thedean

Woldmarsh/ Woldlink £54.95 delivered to Thirsk (or anywhere mainland except Scottish Highlands) don't need an empty cyclinder.

Dorian1958

19kg static site North Northumberland, exchange bottle, delivered by site owners: £33. Any more 19kg users out there?

Dorian1958

Went back to the office; in addition to£33 for 19kg, the 47kg bottles are £59.

Juliandicks

Flogas have increased their prices again recently by another £2.85 on a 47KG bottle this is the 3rd rise in the last 12 months. My regular supplier Woldlink have gone upto £57.90 including VAT & Delivery but they have also just launched a new website https://www.gottle.co.uk with a slightly discounted rate of £56.90 and free nationwide delivery.

ICV

Quoted £86 (Calor) here in Ross-shire today and gottle.co.uk have the dreaded "excluding Scottish Highlands" on their website so can't use them. Calor have a huge depot in Inverness which is about 20 minutes away. Really annoying they get away with this postcode gouging. Going to bite the bullet and replace our hob with an electric one and hope (pray) for no long power cuts over the winter.

JimmyHT12

Hitchin Hertfordshire
47kg - Calor - £98
47kg - Flogas - £60

The retailers are no more than 200m apart from each other.

Stockist

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.