Member Offer: My Esso Card

Also had confirmation of successful application on 6th December and still no card!

On a separate note I used an Esso motorway service station today and paid £1.50 / litre of SU. I assume that this weeks text would mean that I would get charged £1.227? A saving of 27p / litre. If I had the elusive card that is!

I was going to apply for this until I started reading the application form. 

What realy puts me off is having to go online to obtain your PIN number, among other things.

Having been hacked in the past there is no way I would trust this sort of arrangement. 

Used my card for the first time yesterday. I assumed that the e-receipt would be sent immediately, and that my account would be debited overnight........ nothing.

Is there usually a time lag, and if so how long before I a)  know what I have actually been charged and b) have the payment taken?

I filled up Friday and got an email Tuesday - money taken out next day. 

cannot blame anybody else for you getting hacked. a good protecting software would help as I pay for Norton every year and never had any problems. you can get free software but I wouldn't trust it. my money and up to me to protect it. My pin is already on the esso page but still no card yet. they put the pin on not me.

To me it's a no-brainer.

I give Esso my bank details so they can recharge purchase to my bank. No more security risk than any other on-line purchase or registering with peeps like PayPal.

They in turn issue me with a card that can only ever be used for purchasing fuel at Esso filling stations. So much more secure than using a card that can be used anywhere, for anything.  Given elaborate card cloning technology and the widespread theft of card details only  few years ago from filling stations in particular surely so much safer.

I then get notified weekly of the real price I will pay, not the advertised pump price, usually a big saving over pump price.

Having been notified in advance of the real price I can then happily go about my business choosing where and from whom I buy my fuel with no one holding a gun to my head, same choice as I've had before. no one makes me buy from Esso so if its cheap, expensive, a rip-off or one bit of plastic too many I don't have to use it.

Where's the problem?

agree 100 pct, I have used my card twice, works for me, used card to pay, 4/5 days later money deducted from my debit card account, no faff no fuss, if  necessary i can view my account online at Esso card,.

Thanks. Will check again after the weekend

Well I should have expected it! Complained last night that my card hadn't arrived (from 6/12/18 application) and they turned up today. Yes, "they", I got 2 letters in the same post with cards in with different numbers. Picked one at random and tried it today. Seems to have worked so far!

Brian

well done. I applied 2 weeks before you and still no card.