Member Offer: My Esso Card

According to the OP the savings relate to the Esso pump price. In areas where the Esso station has nearby supermarkets these are likely to be lower than out in rural areas or on motorways. The average savings quoted will be based on these variations.

I never thought the saving related to supermarket prices and I don't think the blurb in anyway suggests that. It was one of the reasons I decided against going for the card.

I used my new card today, just to check it works, £25 to top up the car. PIN number doesn't appear on the front as some have reported.  It was actually 1p more expensive using the card than Morrisons, but I wanted to test it anyway. Shame the Esso price seems to be going up, I put £80 worth of diesel in the van yesterday on our way home in the van at an Asda, 3p cheaper than Pumpkin... makes no odds to me though.

why is everyone comparing prices with supermarkets when the the original op was a saving on the ESSO pump price not the supermarkets price. I bet all the moaners ill keep the card in the back of their wallets and will use if emergancies crop up, but will not be back on here to say they have. for us that like premium fuels it will be a big saving over the years to come and the rest can carry on with asda. all personal preferance.

It will be well worth it if on a motor way

I've asked a number of associates and many have applied, some pre Xmas and other than lots of texts and emails we've not received the cards. Likewise the comparisons between the texted prices and those of local petrol stations whether supermarkets or not are not providing any savings.  Only one person out of twenty has saved anything, namely 1p a litre and has since said that there has not been any occasion on which they would save in recent months. This is even in remote or rural areas. 

No-one can force me to use the card. 

Why?  Well, because I've not ben sent one!!  And secondly, because an "ESSO" station is a bit of a rarity around here these days.

quite, my local Shell station has put up regular diesel prices by 2p in the last 3 days, now £1.31 vs Esso card £1.26, yes supermarket may be cheaper but dont like supermarket fuel

Hmm, I don't know if this has been posted anywhere on this mammoth thread but......

I logged in to My pump-king account this morning and went to my stored cards, where I noticed it stated I could delete my current debit card?

Having also noticed that it said I could "Please delete your old credit card before add new one."

So I Deleted User my stored debit card and added a new CREDIT card to my account, which, it appears to have accepted!?

Now, whether there will follow a message from Pump-King about the change i don't know yet, but I'm happier that I have stored a credit card, with a low credit limit, rather than my Debit card.

Be interesting to see if everything works that way around

When we got the new card, the letter stated that it could be used in the UK and on the continent.  I contacted the CC and pointed out that as the fuel card is linked to debit card in many cases if you do an overseas transaction, the debit card supplier will probably invoke a transaction charge thus negating any savings.  However many of us have a credit card that is fee free and if we were able to link the credit card to the card then no issue.  Maybe they took notice.

However in most countries on the continent the cost of fuel is lower than the UK anyway and probably lower then the UK discounted price so would there be any point in using the card on the continent? 

For those who always buy branded fuel then fine, the card works for you. I don't particularly have an affinity to branded anything, we just buy the cheapest as for us there is no appreciable difference. The point is, that if the Esso card's prices were just a mere 1 or 2 pence cheaper, then loads of like minded people may also buy Esso rather than supermarket, which is a good thing surely ?