Member Offer: My Esso Card

I'm using my Esso card this week, down in Cornwall.  Using the Esso Card, the actual price I pay will be lower that supermarket prices.

Also, some may remember I used my Esso Card at a fuel station where the forecourt price was cheaper than the price issued by Pump King for the Esso card.  I've done this twice now, and each time it came up with the pump price (i.e. the cheaper price).  It appears you do not get it 1p per litre cheaper than the pump price when the pump price is already cheaper than the PumpKing price for that week - you just get the overall cheapest price.

David

We were on the M5 last week, Esso was £1.51 at Gloucs services so we pulled off at Tewkesbury, a short drive to a local petrol station for 25p less a litre. We don't have a card and it's usually easy to find cheaper fuel near the motorway if needed.

Prices for petrol in the North West this week for comparison with Pump King are:-

Costco 114.7p

Asda 117.7p

British Fuel 117.8p (Texaco Tanker)

Texaco 119.9

Esso 128.8p

Pump King as advised by text for week 31/3/19

125.9p

David that is not was said in Rowena's opening post -see below

The saving varies based on the My Esso Card special rate and the Esso pump price rate. In the unlikely event that the pump price is lower than the My Esso Card special rate members are guaranteed to save 1p per litre on the pump price.

I have only used my fuel card on one occasion when I finally got up and running with the card.

You will see from an earlier post of mine that I was charged at the higher Pump King price and not even the lower actual Esso pump price.

I have not queried this as it may take me the next 3 months to resolve,as it did to get the card up and running

Interestingly, the club offers page no longer talks about a saving of 1p per litre.

Instead it says "in the event that the Pump-King weekly fuel price is higher than the pump price at an Esso fuel station, Pump-King guarantee to match the pump price."

https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/membership/member-offers/fuel-card/

This is yet another change to the Ts&Cs without us being notified.

I've just seen this under the FAQs, which is also new:

Please note that once a member has cancelled the account, they will not be allowed to re-register in the future.

I had hoped to come back to the scheme once it had settled down.  I guess I won't be doing so now!

My card finally arrived so used it for the first time the other day.Card accepted and ticket showed original price £1.319 which I assumed would be normal. A few days later an email arrived showing a price of £1.255 which was slightly less than the supermarkets. Correct amount taken from my account so happy that all worked perfectly.

I’m now on my 4 th card cannot edit any details on any of the new cards and none of them are any good, it’s developed into a new hobby mind I do get email replies from Pump-King

That is also new to me I also was thinking of doing the same, well it's their loss as I normally fill up when passing a supermarket with a forecourt