Member Offer: My Esso Card

Posted on 28/01/2019 22:04 by baileyvanman

MM, you have never lived!

As an impoverished teenager in 1971 I regularly put 10 bob's worth of 2* at 6/1d a gallon in my ancient Ford Pop.

To the uninitiated that is a shade over 30p per 4.5L and 10 bob is 50p today, so if anyone is curious enough I've given you enough to work it out for yourselves!

Must admit though, the old Pop, with side valve engine designed back in the '30s and 3 speed box with 2 low and 1 high gear struggled to pull itself up a hill. No chance with a van in tow!

Posted on 28/01/2019 22:39 by EmilysDad

I'm not old enough to have paid for fuel in £sd 😉 

Posted on 28/01/2019 22:51 by baileyvanman

Lucky you!

Posted on 28/01/2019 13:22 by harriston

Anyone having trouble with PumpKing who do the administration for the card

I received an email last Thursday from them stating my card was blocked due to them unable to obtain funds from my bank. I checked with the bank, nobody had attempted to request funds, I emailed them back immediately explaining this. On Saturday I received a further email stating I would be charged a further £10.00 if they didn't get payment and my card would be rescinded.

They have yet to answer any of my emails especially were I asked for their bank details so I could pay the invoice and told them to keep the card as I didn't want to be involved in a company like theirs if this was the way they did business.

I phoned them today to sort it out I asked for accounts but you only get as far as the help desk as apparently Accounts won't take direct calls, they say they will get back to me, I hope they are quicker doing that than they are responding to emails

 

Posted on 28/01/2019 11:49 by Rufs

quite, "mountains out of mole hills"

Posted on 28/01/2019 13:22 by harriston

Anyone having trouble with PumpKing who do the administration for the card

I received an email last Thursday from them stating my card was blocked due to them unable to obtain funds from my bank. I checked with the bank, nobody had attempted to request funds, I emailed them back immediately explaining this. On Saturday I received a further email stating I would be charged a further £10.00 if they didn't get payment and my card would be rescinded.

They have yet to answer any of my emails especially were I asked for their bank details so I could pay the invoice and told them to keep the card as I didn't want to be involved in a company like theirs if this was the way they did business.

I phoned them today to sort it out I asked for accounts but you only get as far as the help desk as apparently Accounts won't take direct calls, they say they will get back to me, I hope they are quicker doing that than they are responding to emails

 

Posted on 29/01/2019 09:26 by Shires999

So after two weeks, multiple emails to Pump-King with no response , multiple phone calls of which only one was answered, raising the issue on here, email with the club for which I had to chase twice, I have eventually received my refund for the duplicated debit.

No email apology from Pump-King, no offer of compensation as others got.

So now my account is straight do I carry on using the card? At the moment no as local Supermarket prices are cheaper than the offer price  but I will keep an eye on the prices as i did make savings before the admin shambles. I will keep the card in my wallet though as if I have to fill up at say a motorway service station it will be be useful. In the meantime the debit card registered now with pump-king is linked to an account with no money or overdraft.

Also doing a little searching I have found that the myessocard isn't exclusive to CAMC. There is a Caravan & Touring Facebook group where they were promoting it as well with a different referral code and you didn't need to be a member of CAMC to have it. So for the club to say 'Offer only available to Caravan and Motorhome Club (CAMC) members' might be seen as misleading as it is available elsewhere.