speedyxjs
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 posted on 21/10/07 at 06:09 PM |
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Pipeline
Received this email:
Dear Member,
If you already received this, please accept our apologies. Our email
server developed a fault halfway through sending the message and we have
no way of telling which members have already received it. Thanks, Ben.
Some of you may have been wondering what has happened to Pipeline Card
and if we are still going. It has been a few months since we have been
in touch but I can assure you we are all still here!
The Pipeline Card is about getting cheap fuel for all of us and, since
we didn't have any definite news to tell you on that front, we haven't
been writing to you. However, after such a long silence we thought we
really needed to tell you what has been happening. This is a membership
organisation after all.
Basically we have been working very hard on trying to get the card off
the ground. I won't bore you with the long list of broken promises,
false hopes, and corporate inactivity - anybody would think that the
petrol companies didn't want to discount their product - but the short
version is that our original 'partner' let us down, we have spoken to
several others and the industry has clearly closed ranks against us. What a
surprise!
We looked at turning Pipeline Card into a credit card with petrol
discount instead of Cashback - not your first choice I am sure - or ours -
but, as we envisaged it, a Pipeline Credit Card would deliver discount
everywhere in the UK - not just one retail chain. None of the UK banks
we spoke to had fully grasped how the Internet works and they
certainly couldn't consider launching a financial product that hadn't been
tried and tested by at least half a dozen other banks first. It's a shame
really - nobody argued with our figures and it could have worked. I
guess the banks had problems of their own to worry about.
We also looked at doing Pipeline Card following the successful Dutch
model - but that won't suit everybody as you need Internet banking to
make it work.
So, are we giving up? Certainly not! We have learnt a lot along the way
and one of the things we have learnt - the hard way - is that 500,000
members aren't enough. We are now about to launch a new publicity
campaign and we aim to double that figure within six weeks. We are very
confident that one of the petrol retailers will break ranks - but only if
we can get a lot more members.
Thanks to all of you who have posted on forums and told your friends
about Pipeline Card, but if we are all to get cheaper fuel, then we need
to keep spreading the message. Please use this link
(http://www.PipelineCard.org/recommend.html) on the website to get other
drivers who are interested in saving money on petrol to sign up. Send
them a copy of this email if they have already heard about Pipeline
Card and think that we have gone away.
Meanwhile we will continue to campaign for lower fuel duty and to look
out for other genuine savings that are relevant to our members. Most
aren't! Please continue to write in with your queries, suggestions and
offers of help. Bear with us if it takes a little time to respond as
there are only two of us working here and we both have other jobs. We do
read every e-mail and we regularly add more material to our Questions &
Answers (http://www.PipelineCard.org/qna.html) as a direct result of
your feedback.
I signed up about a year ago after a post on the JEC forum.
Need more members so if anyone wants to sign up it is free.
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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Fatboy Dave
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| posted on 21/10/07 at 07:52 PM |
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I still stand by the fact that it's complete bullshit. I've been signed up for years, and *nothing* has come out of it. I *seriously*
doubt any fuel company will give a discount on a product that has a captive audience, when there's no indication as to where the funding is
coming from to actually run the thing.
I mean, the petrol companies involved are not going to be bothered about 500,000 people who want money off something they're gonna buy anyway,
let alone something that they will undoubtably have to worry about financing.
The only model I could ever see working is something like our works' fuel card account with Shell, maybe with an applied discount involved;
however, the money would only be clawed back in the interest charged. And not everyone can get credit either.
Dave
Stop the planet, I want to get off
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Simon
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| posted on 21/10/07 at 10:11 PM |
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I'm with Dave. I have no idea how many people are signed up to it, but for it to be any use, everyone who has signed up needs to turn up
in Parliament Sq at a given time and date, and make our feelings known to those who a) supposedly give a shite, and b) can do something about the tax
levied on fuel.
According to the paper, GB (or his replacement) are making an extra £240,000,000 a MONTH because of current fuel prices.
ATB
Simon
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